Chapter 865: Special Gene Fragment
Hearing Lou Song's words, Xu You couldn't help but smile without saying anything.
Xu You had to admit that Lou Song's understanding of him had reached a very high level.
"Yes, Lou Song, everything is exactly as you predicted. I think we can start studying the resurrection of those extinct creatures."
At this time, Lou Song seemed to suddenly think of something and said to Xu You:
"Xu You, sometimes you are like me, and you don't think about how to apply what you study. Even though Blue Planet is facing the risk of being invaded by Proxima Centauri, you can still study some projects that have little to do with these things. Just like the mathematics I study, I don't know when it can be applied, or even if it will be applied."
"No, Lou Song, that's not the case. If the Blue Star civilization really reaches a critical moment of life and death, and all the people of Blue Star have this powerful ability to recover, then our Blue Star civilization will have a greater chance of continuing."
"Oh? So you've already thought of this. It seems that our research points are quite different."
Xu You also had to admit that although Xu You and Lou Song were both top geniuses on Blue Star and had very similar personalities, there were still huge differences between them.
Lou Song is a pure theoretical researcher who is good at discovering details that are difficult for ordinary people to notice. He has reached an extreme level of rationality, but he will not think too much about issues that are not related to rationality.
Although Xu You also studied theoretical physics at the beginning, he developed the habit of combining theory with application due to his early participation in applied projects.
In fact, the reason why Xu You did these researches that seemed to have nothing to do with resisting Proxima Centauri civilization was that he had actually been thinking about the problem at a higher level.
Xu You must make many preparations to ensure that the Blue Star civilization will not be completely defeated when facing the Proxima civilization , and at least ensure that the human seed can continue.
And research on biology is one of the most important links.
After finalizing this new plan, Xu You decided to continue controlling the Martian robot to complete some research work on this Martian creature.
At this time, these soil samples are still on Mars and cannot be transported back to the Blue Planet in a short period of time. Therefore, many research work cannot be carried out on the Blue Planet for the time being.
After Xu You regained control of the Martian robot, Hu Shucheng and others were caught off guard.
"Old Xu, why are you here again? Didn't you say that you would not participate in the exploration of Mars for the time being? There has been no new progress in the research experiments on Martian cells. If there is any progress, I will tell you as soon as possible."
"Nothing, I just have some new ideas about this creature. You can continue with your work, I can handle it here by myself."
"Well, Lao Xu, just do it. If you need anything, you can always call us."
After briefly explaining the situation to Hu Shucheng, Xu You took control of the Martian robot and began his own research.
More than ten days have passed since the Mars surface exploration project team discovered signs of life on Mars, but in fact, the project team has not conducted much research on these Martian cells.
After all, our majors are mainly in the aerospace field, and we are not professional biologists. Apart from some basic research, we are unable to conduct particularly in-depth research.
Although these tasks do not seem difficult, the research workload is actually very large and it is definitely not a research project that can be completed in a short period of time.
Including the hundreds of Martian soil samples previously extracted by the project team, many of them have only undergone preliminary composition analysis and there is no energy for other research.
Xu You did not rush to analyze the soil samples, but first checked the experimental report that the project team had completed.
Although these experimental reports do not cover all research projects, they are sufficient to provide Xu You with great reference value.
After quickly reading hundreds of experimental reports, Xu You nodded slightly.
"Just as I imagined, the traces of life found in these soil samples are somewhat extreme. Either the DNA material is in a damaged state, or the cell structure is complete or nearly complete. There is no trace of life in the middle state."
For most people, such a conclusion would not attract any attention.
However, this is very consistent with Xu You's previous guess.
Xu You boldly guessed that the DNA of this organism had an extremely strong ability, which could repair the entire damaged cell as long as the DNA was not substantially damaged.
In other words, if we can complete the research on the special mechanism of this organism, as long as we can determine the DNA structure of some extinct organisms, it would be theoretically possible to resurrect these extinct organisms.
Applying this ability to humans may also allow them to have stronger vitality. Just like in the comics, they cannot be easily destroyed, and even if their bodies are damaged, they can recover in a short time.
This ability is different from repair relying on nanorobots, and in some ways, it is even more powerful.
After reaching this conclusion, Xu You began to conduct further analysis on these soil samples.
Through rigorous analysis of these cells, Xu You successfully derived the complete genetic sequence of this organism and discovered some special genetic fragments within these genetic sequences.
"Similar gene fragments should have never appeared on creatures on Blue Star. It seems that the special ability of this creature is likely related to these gene fragments."
After carefully recording these gene fragments, Xu You did not stay in the Mars base for too long and released control of the Martian robot.
Coming out of the experimental cabin, Xu You felt that he had completed the space journey again.
This kind of thing of traveling from one planet to another in an instant is indeed too bizarre. Even now, Xu You has not fully adapted to it.
Although this was accomplished by controlling the robot, the experience was so real that it did not make Xu You feel any different from coming to Mars in person.
"Let's copy this DNA sequence first."
Xu You was about to do this work, but suddenly he thought of something.
