Chapter 138: Genetic Drug

Qiu Hongsheng looked at the young man with a youthful face before him, his expression complex.

He did indeed have a connection with Su Xin.

It was more than just being at the same university.

When Su Xin enrolled last year, President Ma of Jing University had specifically sought him out to ask if he was willing to take Su Xin as a student.

Originally, he had been quite interested in this rising young star; after all, the Tiantian Assistant and Thor Battery the other party had developed were the most advanced products in the world.

Such a genius youth, though it was unclear why he wanted to enter the biology major, at least possessed intelligence, learning ability, and research capabilities that were absolutely at a world-class level.

He was, of course, willing to take the other party as a student.

However, when President Ma mentioned that Su Xin had frankly stated from the beginning that he did not have much free time, and that it was uncertain if he would even have time to attend school, he immediately lost interest.

No matter how excellent a genius might be, if they did not invest energy and time, it was impossible to achieve anything in the field of biology.

What's more, he was a top-tier biology expert in Long Country, and his usual research work was very busy; how could he have time to pay attention to a student who did not intend to invest time in the biology major?

And so.

He decisively rejected President Ma's proposal.

Afterward, he cast the matter of Su Xin to the back of his mind.

It was not until a few days ago, when Su Xin held the launch event for the Tianmu Eye Drops, that he took notice of this dazzling genius youth once again.

After carefully studying the composition and effects of the Tianmu Eye Drops, Qiu Hongsheng could not help but marvel at Su Xin's imaginative ideas.

A seemingly ordinary myopia correction agent fully embodied Su Xin's profound attainments in biomedicine.

He had to admit in his heart that Su Xin's talent in biology was truly astonishing, and his current achievements were perhaps not much worse than his own.

A trace of regret arose in Qiu Hongsheng's heart—

Such a top-tier biology genius had actually been missed by him just like that.

The other party had relied entirely on self-study and could possess such profound biological attainments in such a short time; if he had taken the other party as a student and taught him carefully, the other party's achievements would inevitably have been even higher.

To be able to have such an excellent student, how much face he would have had in front of his friends.

Moreover, once Su Xin's academic achievements surpassed his own, he could still discuss things with Su Xin, which would help his own achievements go a step further.

Unfortunately, everything had been missed by him.

After a deep sense of remorse, Qiu Hongsheng set aside his emotions and threw himself back into his research.

Until the day before yesterday.

Hao Zude found him and said that Su Xin had actually developed a new agent capable of enhancing visual range, and he was truly shocked by it.

To a layman, this kind of agent only doubled the visual distance, which did not seem to have anything particularly remarkable about it.

But only he, a top expert in the industry, deeply understood the difficulty and significance behind it.

Human body enhancement—this was a forbidden field that only existed in human fantasy!

Currently, no one in the entire biological community had any substantive results in this field.

Yet now, it had been quietly researched by Su Xin, a nineteen-year-old youth?

Even if it was only enhancing visual range, that was opening the door to human body enhancement technology, and it was a tremendous encouragement to the entire biological community.

At that moment, Qiu Hongsheng was not just regretting; he felt heartbroken over his original choice—what kind of genius student had he missed?

Professor Ao Jiachun, who was to the side, also looked at Su Xin with interest.

He had also heard of the other party's reputation more than once regarding this up-and-comer.

It was just that, previously, it was mostly because of the Tiantian Assistant and the Thor Battery, as well as the recently famous Xiaozhi Driving System.

These had nothing to do with biology.

But now, the Military had brought the two of them, top experts in biology, to Tianjing specifically to discuss and research one of Su Xin's achievements in biology.

This showed how much the Military valued his results.

"This is not just a genius; he is simply a scientific research polymath!" Ao Jiachun sighed in his heart.

Su Xin did not pay much attention to the two professors' oddities and led the three of them into the Biology Laboratory.

After briefly taking them on a tour.

The four of them put on protective suits and, after several rounds of sterilization and disinfection, entered the interior of the Laboratory.

"This new agent also uses biological means to stimulate the activity of the eyeball, and then uses an auxiliary drug to enhance the strength and toughness of the entire eyeball, allowing it to have a greater expansion and contraction limit, so as to significantly broaden the limit of visual range."

"According to diopter calculations, the visual distance limit of this eyeball is about 800 meters, and it can also clearly observe objects at about 5 centimeters up close."

Su Xin introduced this to the group, then pointed to one of the eyeballs soaking in nutrient solution.

"This is the No. 5 experimental subject. Up to now, it has undergone continuous extreme expansion and contraction for seven days, and the subject has shown no damage."

"Everyone can take a look at this set of data first."

He led the group to the computer and opened all the test data for the No. 5 experimental subject.

Ao Jiachun and Qiu Hongsheng both had solemn expressions, carefully looking at the data on the computer and occasionally asking questions.

Hao Zude, who was to the side, did not understand these professional terms, but he could understand that the effect of this new drug could indeed reach the level Su Xin had previously mentioned, and there would indeed be no side effects.

It was equivalent to an ordinary person strengthening their physique through exercise; this biological agent also worked by stimulating the human body, supplemented by a certain auxiliary drug with a solidifying effect, to achieve the effect of permanently enhancing visual range.

Next, the two professors personally observed the various data of the eyeball in the nutrient solution and could not help but admire Su Xin's technology.

"Director Hao, the effect of this agent is basically fine; I think it can proceed to clinical trials."

"I agree as well."

"It is better to be cautious regarding medical matters; otherwise, I think this agent could be put into use directly."

The two professors expressed their approval one after another.

Hearing this, Hao Zude looked at Su Xin with a solemn expression and said: "Since there is no problem with the drug, then you should arrange for it to be submitted for review. I will help you clear the way after I go back to speed up the approval process, and you can arrange the clinical trials then."

Su Xin smiled: "Okay."

Hao Zude's expression turned serious, and he asked: "One more thing, can this technology be prevented from being cracked?"

Su Xin smiled confidently: "Rest assured, the principle of this technology sounds simple, but it is basically impossible for anyone else to reverse-engineer it from its components."

"Even after cooperating with other pharmaceutical companies for mass production in the future, I will keep the core processes in my own hands and will never let them leak out."

This new agent looks similar to Tianmu Eye Drops and works on a similar principle; it is just that the microorganisms used in Tianmu Eye Drops have been improved to make their effects more powerful.

But in reality.

In this new agent, the more important component is actually one of the auxiliary drugs.

This auxiliary drug is created by Su Xin using gene editing technology to appropriately fine-tune a small segment of human genes, then using the improved Adeno-associated Virus as a carrier to transcribe this fine-tuned gene into the human body, causing slight deformation in the human eye structure.

Combined with that improved microorganism, it makes the effect more precise and controllable, thereby achieving the goal of effectively enhancing visual range.

Therefore, this new agent is actually a combination of a biological agent and a gene drug.

He had already applied for an international patent for the former after developing Tianmu Eye Drops.

It is impossible for anyone to crack the latter.

Because he has imposed certain restrictions on the fine-tuned gene segment, and the Adeno-associated Virus used as a carrier also has unique improvements; wanting to reverse-engineer or copy it based on the drug is actually no easier than researching it from scratch.

Simply put.

The Adeno-associated Virus is a virus without any pathogenicity; it is a carrier that can carry specific gene segments into the human body and then transcribe them to specific parts.

And the Adeno-associated Virus improved by Su Xin, after being loaded with that fine-tuned gene segment, is preserved by Su Xin as the parent virus.

The large number of progeny viruses replicated under specific conditions afterward are what are used to synthesize the auxiliary drug, and these progeny viruses do not possess the ability to replicate under any conditions.

Therefore.

No one can reverse-engineer Su Xin's technology through the finished drug product.

As long as Su Xin keeps the parent virus in his own hands, produces the auxiliary drug himself, and then supplies it to major pharmaceutical companies to produce the finished drug, there is no need to worry about the problem of technology leakage at all.

Next.

Su Xin prepared the finished product of this new drug, named Tianmu No. 1, along with some technical materials, and had Nie Hongwu submit them for review and apply for clinical trials.

After all, this technology has not been verified by actual clinical trials, so Su Xin is not in a hurry to proceed with the next step of in-depth research for the time being.

The entire review process, even with Hao Zude's help in pushing it forward, will take at least one or two months.

Of course, Su Xin also knows that for an ordinary pharmaceutical company, even if they develop a new drug, it is very normal to spend a year or two from approval to verification to market launch, let alone for a human enhancement drug that has never existed before.

He has the support of high-level officials, so having this kind of efficiency is already very exaggerated.

It just so happens that during this time, Su Xin can put more energy into the communications field.

While Su Xin was devoted to researching technologies related to the communications field, his several companies continued to develop and grow, constantly making breakthroughs and expanding crazily overseas.

And the most popular one among them is Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company, which not only set off a crazy craze in all cities of Long Country but also aroused the attention and yearning of countless netizens abroad.

There are five pharmaceutical companies cooperating with Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company; among them, except for Liu Guosong's pharmaceutical company, which is second-tier in scale, the other four are all first-tier domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises.

The five pharmaceutical companies have a total of eighteen large-scale pharmaceutical factories under their names, which had already started mass production and stocking up days before the Tianmu Eye Drops launch conference.

Coupled with subsequent full-scale production, the total daily production capacity is nearly 1 million units.

But it is still far from meeting the demand.

After all, the total number of nearsighted people in Long Country is about 600 million, and adding those with farsightedness and presbyopia, there are at least 700 million people who have a need for Tianmu Eye Drops!

Even if most of them hold a wait-and-see attitude, the remaining small portion is enough to easily consume the production capacity of Tianmu Eye Drops.

Moreover, as more and more people use it, many people find that those around them have perfectly restored their vision, naturally being able to truly see the magical effects of Tianmu Eye Drops and no longer harboring doubts.

This continuously drives the popularity of Tianmu Eye Drops until it attracts the attention of many people overseas.

Consequently, many overseas netizens have successively called for the official introduction of Tianmu Eye Drops and also called for Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company to open branches in other countries to bring the gospel to people around the world.