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Chapter 668 Virus Test! (First Update!)

After the person in charge finished speaking loudly and hysterically, the doctor next to him asked quietly, "Resident Evil?"

In one sentence, he swallowed the rest of what the person in charge wanted to say.

A slap landed on his head, and the person in charge waved it away lightly as if swatting a fly. "Idiot, an idiot who could be in a museum!"

"The fact that China hasn't released this information publicly means they have reservations."

"If we release this drug first, we will be the owners of the patent. Others who want to survive in the long run will have no choice but to come to us."

"Then we can make money, and we'll have enough research funding to work on the rest."

"Even if we do nothing, as long as we complete this project, we can get enough research funding."

"If you watch fewer movies, how can someone who studies biology be afraid of a biohazard?"

"Use your brain, what kind of carbon-based life form could withstand a 12.7mm weapon?"

The person in charge launched into a tirade of profanities. After finishing, he turned his attention back to the research equipment and continued to observe the state of the cells and telomeres under the equipment.

He personally entered the status data of these cells and telomeres to make sure nothing was missed before taking the extra samples to the neighboring virus laboratory to prepare for a virus test.

Just as I finished preparing the virus testing equipment, Navarro arrived.

Upon meeting the lab director, he handed him a bag directly: "This contains Sylvester's hair. He is Adria's eldest son. This should be enough."

The bag was transparent, and there was a small tuft of hair inside. The person in charge picked up the hair, glanced at it, and nodded: "That's enough!"

He turned around and ordered the virus lab to be shut down. Then he and Navarro headed toward the DNA testing lab.

Upon arriving at the DNA testing lab, the person in charge handed the hair sample to the lab technicians, while he and Navarro stood outside the lab, watching the people inside working through the thick glass.

Looking at the people inside, Navarro suddenly asked, "Edcia, what were you busy with just now?"

Edcia, the head of the research institute, understood that Navarro was asking about the purpose of the lab they had just visited. He stretched his neck and replied, "Preparing to conduct a virus test!"

"What do you mean?" Navarro turned his head slightly, looking at Edcia with some surprise.

He didn't understand why he needed to be tested for the virus.

There's only one Adriana. If we poison her, we'll have nothing left for their research.

His doubt was written all over his face. Edcia saw it and shook her head: "Try to test the cells for viral resistance."

"Just common flu, smallpox, and those infectious disease viruses."

"If Adria's body has strong resistance, then perhaps the viral weapons we developed before, as well as the infectious pathogens we collected, could..."

"Maybe we should throw it away."

Edcia's words made Navarro realize the seriousness of the matter.

In 1918, an unusual flu outbreak occurred at an American military camp in Kansas. However, because it was during World War I, the soldiers infected with the virus were hauled ship by ship to the European front and mixed with European troops.

Subsequently, the influenza virus broke out on a large scale, infecting approximately 5 million people in just a few months. After the passage of time and the baptism of war, this influenza outbreak caused approximately 5000 million casualties.

As for the name of this virus, it is called the Spanish flu.

The reason is that Spain was the first to point out that influenza did exist and requested the coalition to deal with it.

This virus was later officially named H1N1.

After that flu outbreak, America's leadership recognized the role of the virus, but due to lagging research, they had to put the matter aside.

After World War II, because of the occupation of Japan, America obtained a large amount of virus research data from Japan.

From that time on, America's virus research began to advance by leaps and bounds.

Correspondingly, all sorts of bizarre stories unfolded in America.

In fact, behind each of these stories lies a virus leak.

It wasn't until modern times that the Resident Evil film series came into being.

Over the years, America has been stockpiling and researching viral weapons.

If people who take this drug are able to fight off the virus, it means that all the research they've done over the years is wasted and they'll have to start all over again.

But before that, he had to confirm whether the person lying on the operating table was Adria.

If the person lying on top of this is Adria's double, then things will get really interesting.

Navarro remained silent, and Edcia, standing beside him, was happy to stay silent as well. The two of them simply watched as the people in the laboratory busied themselves.

About two hours later, the DNA testing lab had the results. The people inside quickly ran out of the lab with the data and delivered it to Edcia: "Professor Edcia, the results are in. The person on the operating table and this sample can be basically confirmed to be biological father and son. Moreover, according to the bio-map comparison, the person on the operating table is Adria."

One sentence made Edcia and Navarro relax.

Navarro took the documents and looked at them over and over again before handing them back to Edcia: "Let's go see our gentleman."

After looking at the DNA test results several times, Edcia raised her head, took a deep breath, and then opened her mouth and burst into laughter.

Navarro noticed his frenzied behavior and became very curious about how a single test result could drive this professor so mad.

After the other person finished laughing, Navarro leaned closer and asked, "What's going on? Why are you so happy?"

After tidying up the documents and stuffing them into her pocket, Edcia pointed ahead and explained as she walked, "As soon as Adria was sent here, we extracted its biological samples and conducted various analyses."

"The first thing we analyzed was his telomeres and cell activity."

"Based on the comparison, his telomeres and cell activity are roughly equivalent to those of a 50 to 60-year-old."

“But Adria is already over 90 years old.”

"And according to the various objective laws of biology, his situation is particularly abnormal."

"This couldn't have been his doing. The only change was that strange potion."

"Doing this DNA test is to confirm a basic fact about him."

"With a foundation, we can make horizontal comparisons."

“Now that the results are in, it’s much easier for us to do cross-sectional comparisons.” Before long, Edcia took Navarro back to the laboratory where the biological samples were analyzed. After a few operations, four images appeared on the large screen in the center of the analysis laboratory.

In the upper left corner is an image of the telomeres and cell activity of a 90-year-old.

In this dynamic image, the telomere staining signal has almost completely disappeared, with only a small amount remaining. That little bit of residue is like a candle flickering in the wind, and it could disappear at any moment.

Inside the cells, the deposited lipofuscin occupies most of the cytosolic fluid, all twisted together.

The top right corner shows a diagram of telomeres and cell activity in a normal 60-year-old.

Compared to 90-year-olds, telomere staining signals in 60-year-olds were clearly visible under the equipment's observation, although they were very short, and a small portion of the staining signals were tending to disappear.

As for lipofuscin, it only stains a portion of the cell sap, appearing as small yellow spots, and is not a serious condition.

The bottom left corner shows the telomeres and cell activity of a 40-year-old middle-aged person.

Under staining signals, the patents of 40-year-old middle-aged people are about 50% longer than those of 60-year-olds.

And those cells were incredibly clean, cool, and powerful.

As for the bottom right corner, there is only one label: Adria telomeres and cell activity.

In this picture, Adria's telomeres are no different from those of a person around 40 years old, while his cells look between 40 and 60 years old, but definitely leaning towards 40, and he looks very healthy.

Because of the accompanying text, Navarro stared at the pictures for a while and understood the connection. He stuck out his tongue and said, "In other words, Adrià is now about the size of a 40-something-year-old."

"If nothing unexpected happens, he should live for at least another 30 to 40 years, right?"

“If the telomeres and cells don’t have problems, he can live for so many years!” Edcia nodded, then looked up again: “But it’s obvious that something has happened to him now.”

"hehe!"

After laughing twice, Edcia tentatively asked in a low voice, "I heard that this person brought back some medicine from China. Could you give me a little bit, just one milliliter?"

Seeing his humble appearance, Navarro couldn't help but roll his eyes, then raised his left hand and looked at the time on it:

"The president took that batch of medicine away, but before I came, he said that he would send over a dose after the others had finished looking at it. You need to use this dose to make a breakthrough."

"However, I haven't received any notification yet, and I estimate it will take some time. You can go and do the virus experiment now."

"This is important. If the antibodies are very strong, then we may have to re-examine those viruses."

Upon hearing that a drug was coming, Edcia's face lit up with a smile. He turned and handed over the task of analyzing the laboratory to the others, and then took Navarro with him to the virus laboratory.

After passing through numerous checkpoints, donning specialized protective suits, and changing into oxygen cylinders, the two finally entered the heavily guarded virus laboratory.

During their absence, the others in the virus lab had already injected fluorescently labeled drugs into the virus. Now, all that was needed was to mix the virus into a culture dish containing Adria cells and place it under an electron microscope to clearly observe the process of the virus eroding the cells.

By recording the entire process and then comparing it with the process of the virus invading other people's cells, it can be confirmed whether Adria's cells have strong viral resistance.

If confirmed, America's viral weapons will need to be reassessed and upgraded.

After looking around the laboratory, Edcia had her staff recheck the procedures to make sure nothing was missed and that everyone's protective gear was safe before starting the experiment.

The first virus to appear was H1N1-PDM 09, a continuation strain of the influenza A virus that broke out in 2009. It was very virulent and highly contagious.

The virus-containing liquid was injected into a culture dish containing Adria cells. Under an electron microscope, it was easy to see that the virus, labeled with a staining drug, slowly approached the cell and then adhered to the cell surface.

Under normal circumstances, a more virulent virus, after adsorbing onto the cell surface for about 10 minutes, will be encapsulated inside the cell by endocytosis.

A few hours later, a virus bud will grow on the cell wall, and the virus that takes over the cell will use the viral shell to generate a new virus.

However, 10 minutes passed and there was no movement on the surface of the virus. If the virus had not been marked with a special drug, it would not have been able to be found under an electron microscope.

After recording the data for 10 minutes, Edcia stared intently at the timer beside him, simultaneously checking the results displayed on the electron microscope.

Twenty minutes later, the cells that had been attached to the virus remained lifeless, failing to absorb the virus attached to their outer surface into their bodies.

Let the virus infect you.

Undeterred, he observed the area again, and only after confirming that there was nothing there did he pick up his notebook, write down what he had seen, and take a few more photos.

Then came another long wait. Just 30 minutes later, he suddenly stood up, but still nothing.

Undeterred, Edcia finished recording the information over the course of 30 minutes, tossed the notebook aside, and, controlling the electron microscope, stared intently at the cells in the culture dish.

For the next 40 or 50 minutes, he didn't take his eyes off the electron microscope, and his assistant took over the recording of the data.

The assistant began recording data, which covered a longer time span.

at last.

At 8 hours and 16 minutes, changes finally appeared on those cells.

The color of the stain appeared inside the cell.

However, the virus is releasing its own RNA.

At that moment, Edcia felt as if he saw holy light, and his most admired scientist slowly walked out of that light, came to him, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Well done!"

He saw a towering tree in its juvenile form, beckoning to him.

It also inspired me to see myself standing on a high platform, receiving praise from people all over the world.

Pulling his chaotic thoughts back, Edcia continued to stare intently at the cells for another four or five hours. When he saw granulation tissue begin to grow on the cells, he gasped sharply.

The sound of him gasping for breath caught Navarro's attention, and the director turned around: "Is that necessary?"

“Absolutely necessary!” Edcia turned around, took the culture containing the H1N1 influenza virus, and showed it to Navarro:

"This thing is extremely contagious. Under the same conditions, it spreads much faster. From adsorption and infection to budding, the whole process takes about 6 hours."

"However, Adria's cells held on for more than ten hours."

"This means that our arsenal of virus weapons needs to be updated!"

(End of this chapter)