Chapter 398: Moon Landing Live

"Except for the chromosomes unique to vampires, vampires and ordinary wizards have about 0.01% base pair differences in the remaining chromosomes, involving about 140 genes. Some gene differences are very small, while others are completely extra."

Jawad, the head of the vampire research group, handed a report to Murphy and introduced the recent research progress to him.

"Among them, we can roughly determine the 23 genes for their use. As for the rest, we basically know nothing," Jawad said. "If we want to perform targeted treatment, we'd better figure out the use of these special genes and find the key genes that cause them to become photophobic, and then correct or knock them out."

"How long will it take?" Murphy asked.

"This... it's hard to estimate..." Jawad said. "Our understanding of the genome is still very elementary, and no one has done this kind of research before. The data in this area is almost blank. We have to start from scratch to conduct control experiments and find the corresponding molecular channels... Even with the Time Accelerator, the time for trait expression can be shortened a lot, but the overall experimental volume is too large, and it is difficult to give a specific time..."

It is now '96. Historically, the Human Genome Project has just begun. Humanity's understanding of genes is still at a very basic stage. Umbrella and the Magic Laboratory have gone much faster than the world, but even so, they have just started.

In fact, for many of the remaining tasks, there are no very large technical bottlenecks. With Cas9 gene editing technology and the Time Accelerator, perhaps it will only take four or five years for humanity's achievements in this area to catch up with the pace of the next ten or twenty years.

But Murphy was somewhat impatient. Now Sophia has some world-weary emotions. In another four or five years, maybe she will be depressed.

Other methods to solve the Empress's illness through magic are also available. For example, through high-level Animagus transformation, there is a probability of replacing the vampire genes in the Empress's body.

But high-level Animagus transformation is still a black box in detail. After transformation, the degree of combination and retention of human and animal genes is uncertain. If it goes smoothly, perhaps she can recover, but it is also very possible to make it into a worse state.

Murphy himself is a victim of the black box state of the transformation path. His genetic defects have not been solved so far, which is also one of the reasons why he vigorously promoted the Genome Project.

The more you know, the more you know about those specific genes, the more you can control the overall change process. What is missing now is "knowledge."

However, there are ways to obtain knowledge.

Murphy thought for a while and said: "List the positions and numbers of those genes for me, and mark the initial thirty base pairs."

Most of these differential genes are existing human genes, and their corresponding traits and possible uses are mostly explored in the future. Murphy intends to dig into his memory again to see if he can find some relevant data from it.

After getting the list, Murphy returned to the Soviet Science City, Central Supercomputing Laboratory.

Total Recall consumes a lot of brain power. Being close to his supercomputing Horcrux helps ensure computing power support.

After making preparations, Murphy lay on a special recliner and then cast a spell on himself: "Total Recall!"

Like a sea of memories rolling, spreading to the sky that could not be seen, Murphy's consciousness was like a tentacle of wind falling from the sky. He followed the channel of memory echoes triggered by that gene list, was pulled, and dived into the sea.

"The Original Intention and Mission of the Human Genome Project (HGP)," a post about the 20th anniversary of the Genome Project, general introduction and popular science, useless...

"The four maps constructed by the Human Genome Project are genetic map, __, __, and __."

Uh, it's actually an exam paper, probably a biology question. I don't know when I saw it.

"Third-generation gene sequencing technology..." This has already been seen.

"Sleep-related gene, ABCC9..."

Murphy looked at it. This seems to be on the list, but this gene is basically the same for vampires and wizards, with only two base pair differences. However, the Empress's main symptom is narcolepsy, which may be an important research direction.

"Research on photosensitivity diseases caused by gene mutations..."

Oh! This might be useful, but Murphy only glanced at this paper at the time, and basically only the first two or three sentences were clear.

But having used "Total Recall" many times, Murphy already had experience in dealing with this.

He stared at those relatively clear words, and then cast his consciousness over them, just as if he were reading the paper in person.

After a while, some blurred handwriting became clear: "Researchers found that the HEF gene is the cause of 90% of this photosensitivity disease. The HFE gene is responsible for transferring iron produced by the body to different cells..."

"HFE gene, what is this..."

The naming rules for genes in the Human Genome Project of Murphy's original world and the Genome Project in the laboratory of this world are not completely consistent.

This led to the fact that it is difficult to find the corresponding gene position just by the gene name.

However, he also asked Jawad to mark the first thirty sequences in the list. If there is no mutation, these sequences are enough to serve as the unique identity code of the gene.

Using "HFE gene" as a retrieval point, Murphy continued to search his memory. He had to find the base sequence of this gene to use as a comparison.

He kept diving into the deep sea of memory, diving deeper and deeper, trying to dig out those most subtle fragments.

And as he kept diving, the computing power consumption of Pioneer also began to increase exponentially.

"HFE, HFE..."

His consciousness tentacles, like a net that was spreading wider and wider and finer and finer, kept drilling downwards.

The entire Pioneer supercomputer had reached an output state of more than 90% power. Just when he thought he would gain nothing this time, suddenly his thinking tentacles touched an extremely distant memory.

"Gene test interpretation: HFE, hereditary hemochromatosis gene..."

Murphy immediately concentrated all his computing power here.

In an instant, the thinking tentacles seemed to drill through a layer of membrane, and finally touched that paper.

"Hemochromatosis is a chronic iron overload disease. Due to the inappropriate increase in intestinal iron absorption, excessive iron is stored in parenchymal cells such as the liver, heart, and pancreas, leading to degenerative changes, diffuse fibrosis, metabolism, and functional disorders of tissues and organs."

"Most hereditary hemochromatosis cases are related to two HFE mutations, both of which are point mutations. The most common is C282Y, and testing for it is standard practice; the other is H63D, and many laboratories will test for this mutation..."

He tried to move his "line of sight," and gradually the whole paper was displayed.

He saw a yellowed printed paper with many stains on it, and gradually he also saw the pair of hands holding the paper, which presented a rusty yellowish-brown color.

"... No..." He heard his own voice. "Wrong, not this..."

"Not hemochromatosis. They are bloodthirsty because hemoglobin loses its vitality and needs to be supplemented in this way... The pigment deposited on the skin surface is due to the massive death of blood cells..."

"But the increase in iron elements is not elemental iron. Their super-strong defense like steel on the body surface cannot be a common biological factor..."

"Bang! Bang!" Suddenly, there was a sound of impact.

"They are coming! They are coming!" He panicked and stuffed the printed paper into his arms. "Run, they are coming!"

"They? Who are they?" Murphy was confused.

"Zombies! Are you stupid?! Wait, who is talking?!"

The next instant, a powerful repulsive force pushed him away violently.

His consciousness seemed to be pulled away from the top of a person's head, making his field of vision expand rapidly. He saw a collapsed European-style building, followed by a street full of thick smoke, countless roaring and running humanoids rushed into the building, and far away, there seemed to be a terrible scream.

Immediately after, his eyes went black, and then he opened them.

The roaring sound of the Pioneer machine room was deafening, but Murphy was blank.

What happened just now?

Whose memory did I see?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 399 =====