As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 39 Zheng Li's Progress

"Apple's tradition should be innovation, progress, and providing customers with better products, rather than sticking to the old ways." Isabel was very direct.

Cook was not affected by the other party's aggressive language: "Isabelle, you need to calm down."

"The problem is that iPhone 13 had already completed CDCP in December last year, and a series of related matters such as the overall product architecture, supplier resource evaluation, and product form have been determined."

“Even if brain-computer connection is to be used, we can put it on iPhone 14.”

CDCP is the conceptual decision and review stage for mobile phone finalization, which is mainly responsible for deciding whether the product should be approved and matters related to the approval of the project.

Isabel: "It's only been less than ten days since the process began, right?"

"We have plenty of time to modify the overall product architecture of iPhone 13 now."

Cook raised another question: "Then our iPhone 13 series in Greater China is completely different from the iPhone 13 series in other regions."

"It's like we have to prepare a completely different iPhone 13 series for Greater China."

"From the design drawings to the internal structure of the phone, to the components, the whole machine, and the motherboard, everything has to be customized individually."

"Have you ever thought about the added costs?"

"It's equivalent to the R&D functions of two mobile phones that we will complete next year."

Isabel asked back, “Have you ever used a brain-computer interface device?”

Cook's expression finally changed, and he looked incredible:

"It's an incredible invention, it's like it knows exactly which button my brain wants to push."

"Our engineers have made a beta version of the brain-computer interface for iPhone. I admit that it is a real pleasure to operate the iPhone directly with my brain, which completely frees my hands."

"We have to admit that China has made great progress in technological innovation. This brain-computer connection product is the best proof of China's technological progress."

"Our dear customers will see brain-computer connected iPhones in the near future."

"The timing will depend on when Sinovation Biotech or other brain-computer connection R&D companies develop brain-computer connection devices with a wider range of applications."

Isabel: “You also know how much brain-computer connection can improve the user experience.”

"The more critical point is that brain-computer connection is the best match for foldable screen phones. I can't believe that Samsung and Huawei's foldable screen phones with brain-computer connection will have an impact on Apple's high-end market."

Folding screens and brain-computer connections are a perfect match. Most of the current folding screens rely on pens to make up for the situation where hands cannot reach them. With brain-computer connection devices, people can free their hands.

The advantages of foldable screen mobile phones as dedicated mobile phones for reading and office are fully demonstrated.

"We cannot accept leaving the market for rival brands to occupy in the era of brain-computer connectivity."

"You can have the lab build a foldable-screen brain-computer interface phone. Next year, only the most die-hard fans will remain in the Chinese market."

"If you insist on not using brain-computer connection technology on iPhone 13 or even iPhone 14."

“We originally had an advantage, making brain-computer connection devices in the form of AirPods.”

"The new iPhone, iPad and Mac can all be equipped with brain-computer connection chips, so users only need one brain-computer connection device to control all Apple products through their brains." "How attractive this is to users."

"But now we have to watch Samsung and Huawei snatch our market away. Greater China is Apple's largest market outside of Europe and the United States."

"We can definitely develop a brain-computer connected iPhone for Greater China to prepare for our future global launch of a brain-computer connected phone."

Cook pondered, "Let me think about it!"

The climate of Lion City is completely different from that of Suzhou. You cannot expect the subtropical monsoon marine climate to be similar to the tropical rainforest climate.

However, the two have a common feature, which is that there is a lot of rain, but in Singapore the rain comes in bursts, which is of high intensity but short duration.

In Suzhou, it is often cloudy and rainy for many days at a time.

It was around seven o'clock in the evening in Singapore at this time, and there was a sudden violent storm outside.

Raindrops hit the glass curtain wall of the CSBC Biotech R&D Center building in Lion City, and Zheng Li seemed to have blocked out the outside world.

Zheng Li is using optimized precision gene editing technology to precisely edit gene fragments.

The optimized precision gene editing technology injects the gene editing tool into one of the blastomeres when the mammalian fertilized egg develops to the two-cell stage.

This results in the two blastomeres, which theoretically come from the same fertilized egg and have exactly the same DNA, forming a comparison relationship with each other, thereby eliminating possible individual differences.

However, this alone does not produce enough DNA, as the DNA content in a single blastomere is extremely small and the amount is insufficient for sequencing analysis.

Then, by injecting the gene editing tool and using a special method, the blastomere and its descendant cells are made to fluoresce.

This early embryo was then implanted directly into the mother's uterus and allowed to develop into a mouse fetus.

When the mouse fetus grows to a sufficient size, the entire fetus is directly digested into a large number of single cells. The difference in fluorescence is then used to distinguish the offspring of the blastomeres that have been injected with the gene editing tool from the control blastomeres. As a result, two piles of cells are obtained, which are almost equivalent to half of the total cells in the mouse fetus. Each pile of cells contains hundreds of millions of DNA molecules, and as long as all of them are extracted, they are sufficient for sequencing analysis, thus bypassing the in vitro amplification step, and the problem of amplification noise is also solved.

(Note: The above method comes from an article published in Science by the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Cytosine base editor generates substantial off-target single-nucleotide variants in mouse embryos)

In recent times, Zheng Li has consumed more than 50 adult experimental monkeys, and countless mice and juvenile monkeys.

Zheng Li was glad that when he was in the Mage Alliance, in addition to his main research field, he also dabbled in knowledge in other fields and spent a lot of energy on absorbing knowledge and thinking.

The Mage Alliance has no concept of reading; they all download the information they need directly from the Magic Net into their brains.

Mage organizations will exchange information, but it will be encrypted. Only after paying enough compensation can you see the content you want to see.

Of course, some basic knowledge costs very low and can be exchanged for materials. High-end knowledge can only be obtained by bartering or selling one's own labor.

Zheng Li has been making steady progress towards his goal, and the magic brain he has cultivated using gene editing technology is getting closer and closer to the effect he wants.

The rejection reaction injected into the experimental mother monkey embryos is also getting weaker and weaker.

Zheng Li was in a good mood. The time for regaining his ability to cast spells was just around the corner. A wizard without the ability to cast spells always felt insecure.

(End of this chapter)