Chapter 473 Endoskeleton
Took 5 anthropomorphic bodies from the anthropomorphic body storage room.
Li Qingye came to an exclusive experimental area that had been prepared long ago, and more than a dozen scientific research assistants were already ready.
“Let’s get started!”
Following his order, the research assistants began to get busy.
They took an anthropomorphic body out of the life support capsule, inserted various life support devices into it, and then inserted a special syringe needle into the anthropomorphic body's vein.
Then he took out a cylindrical container from a biological safe. The container was about the size of a large thermos.
Connect the container to the syringe.
Press the start switch and the special liquid in the container will be injected into the anthropomorphic body little by little.
Another scientific research assistant was checking the feedback data from the artificial brain.
A large number of free cells in the special solution entered the entire body of the anthropomorphic body through the veins.
Probably more than an hour passed.
"Chairman, cartilage tissue is beginning to form."
Li Qingye turned the chair and looked at the holographic body structure model formed by the scanning equipment. A layer of cartilage began to form under the dermis tissue on the surface of the human body.
These cartilage tissues are distributed in a fibrous structure, starting from the dermis on the surface of the body and then spreading to the muscles and internal organs.
"Report, the experimental subject is gaining weight..."
"Report, the height of the experimental subject..."
As chondrocytes continued to build cartilage tissue in the experimental subject's body, the subject's weight increased little by little, and his height and body shape also expanded little by little.
Until 36 hours later.
The cartilage cells completed the construction of the internal skeleton. At this time, the weight of the experimental subject increased by 18.3%, the height increased by 3.2 cm, and the body outline became much stronger.
In short, it got stronger.
At this moment, in the scanning holographic body model in front of Li Qingye, the white lines represent cartilage tissue, and these cartilage tissues are densely spread all over the body of the experimental subject.
"Injecting neural network-building cells."
"yes."
These cartilage tissues are integrated with muscles, blood vessels, bones, and internal organs to form an artificial skeleton that is embedded in the anthropomorphic body.
This artificial skeletal system is called an "endoskeleton".
Endoskeleton, as the name suggests, is the skeleton inside the body, used to distinguish it from exoskeleton and autologous skeleton.
The reason why Li Qingye developed the endoskeleton is to strengthen the human body, which is actually one of the components of biological armor.
The old version of biological armor mainly consists of a biological exoskeleton covering the body surface, plus various functional symbiotic insects, symbiotic bacteria and biochips in the body.
In practical application, although the old version of biological armor has very good functions in all aspects, it still has some shortcomings.
For example, if the body is hit violently, it may cause coma, damage to internal organs, broken bones, ruptured blood vessels, or even death.
Although the security forces of the Sapiens Company rarely come into direct combat with the enemy, it does not mean that this problem can be ignored.
Because bio-based armor has another major application area - space suits.
Especially during the ascent phase of the launch vehicle or the orbital landing phase, overload is basically commonplace.
Currently, the Medan Aerospace Group, a subsidiary of Sapiens Corporation, produces the Apollo launch vehicle, which has a maximum overload of 4.8G in the atmospheric stage. For astronauts equipped with biological armor, this overload is nothing.
However, the aerospace airship and aerospace transport aircraft of another subsidiary, Dandelion Aerospace Group, have a maximum overload of 6.7G during the ascent phase in the atmosphere, and if an emergency suborbital landing is performed, the maximum overload can even reach 12.5G.
If the overload exceeds 8G, the protective effect of the biological armor will decrease. If the overload exceeds 12G, even with the biological armor, astronauts may still fall into a coma, suffer from black vision, red vision, and induce cardiovascular disease.
Through a series of feedback data from practical applications, various aerospace subsidiaries have found that the current bio-based armor has certain limitations.
Its limitation is that when the overload exceeds the threshold, various organs of the human body will be compressed, leading to difficulty in breathing and abnormal blood circulation.
To solve this problem, the endoskeleton system came into being.
The endoskeleton system, which is composed of a special cartilage tissue group, has a nanostructure similar to that of a sponge. After it is formed in the body, it will store a certain amount of physiological saline.
Once encountering sudden external force, the soft endoskeleton will instantly harden and tighten the body.
The stronger the external force, the stiffer the endoskeleton becomes, which is similar to the force pattern of non-Newtonian fluids.
However, the pressure that the endoskeleton can withstand also has its limits. If the instantaneous overload exceeds 30G, the body will be crushed by the overload even with an endoskeleton system.
Regarding this point, Li Qingye and a group of researchers did not have too high expectations when designing the endoskeleton system. The ability to achieve a safe overload of less than 25G is the greatest value of this system.
Of course, the endoskeleton system can be used for more than just load resistance.
In fact, the endoskeleton system has many functions, including load resistance, bullet resistance, impact resistance, heavy pressure resistance, and improving athletic ability.
With the help of the biochip, he can lift 500 kilograms without an exoskeleton and jump from a height of 10 meters with his body intact.
At the same time, with the endoskeleton system, after being equipped with a bio-armor exoskeleton, the coordination between the body and the exoskeleton will be more perfect.
But all of this is a supercomputer simulation.
In reality, experiments are currently underway.
Injecting neural network-building cells into cartilage tissue is another key point of the endoskeleton system, which is to allow the cartilage tissue to be completely integrated with the biochip.
Only by completing the neural network connection can the cartilage tissue be finely controlled.
Li Qingye and his research assistants watched the feedback data from the artificial brain. The cartilage tissue inside the anthropomorphic body was connected to the biochip little by little through the neural network cells.
The process took 8 hours.
When the last part of cartilage tissue was connected to the neural network building cells, the internal endoskeleton system of the anthropomorphic body was officially implanted.
"Test the blood regulation."
"OK."
The cartilage tissue that wraps around the blood vessels successfully reduces the blood supply to some parts of the body through contraction and squeezing, or even directly cuts off the blood supply.
Then artificial cardiopulmonary resuscitation is performed directly inside the body. The endoskeleton system can directly squeeze the heart, and there is no need for external compression.
The next step is to test artificial assisted intestinal motility, varicose vein repair, foreign body removal from the respiratory tract, and assisted breathing .
Among them, the endoskeleton system implanted in the alveoli is the most special part, because this part of the endoskeleton can also have another effect, which is to prevent external fluid from directly contacting the alveoli.
At the same time, a special symbiotic fungus is implanted in the upper respiratory tract. This thing can penetrate the hyphae into the alveoli, then absorb oxygen from the liquid, transport oxygen to the alveoli, and expel the carbon dioxide released by the alveoli.
In other words, humans at this time can breathe directly underwater.
In order to solve the problem of liquid exchange caused by breathing underwater, the endoskeleton system can temporarily open the upper respiratory tract and esophagus, and temporarily close the connection between the esophagus and the stomach, allowing oxygen-containing liquid to enter from the respiratory tract and carbon dioxide-containing liquid to be exhaled from the esophagus.
Of course, if this special underwater breathing mode occurs in natural water bodies, the human body's activity functions will be greatly reduced, because the oxygen content in natural water bodies is too low, resulting in insufficient oxygen supply.
Without the assistance of the endoskeleton system, it would be impossible to breathe underwater or even swim, and one could only float on the bottom of the water.
