"I remember it was in the 1940s... the early 1940s, maybe. It was like 1941?" Xiang Shan fell into deep thought.
This memory lacks details, but as "knowledge", he still remembers the general outline and can slightly speculate on the causes and consequences.
It was probably in 1940 or 1941 that Yawgmoth suddenly received a grant from the United Nations Program on AIDS, the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health of the Republic to conduct genetic research on HIV.
This incident was regarded by the Ministry of Health as one of the political achievements of the year and was publicized in newspapers, portals and other places for several days.
At that time, Xiangshan felt a little puzzled by this, and even a little dissatisfied.
In his opinion, the focus of Superman Enterprises at that time should be on "the human version of genetic modification surgery." He himself has been applying with the ethics committee and other institutions, hoping to get permission to conduct clinical trials.
Before that, scientists from Superman Enterprise should conduct more genetic modification surgeries on primates, accumulate as much data as possible, prove the safety of this surgery, and lay a solid foundation for the next step of research.
The day this technology breaks through, many people will benefit from it.
This kind of thing requires all the efforts to be concentrated.
Moreover, it is just AIDS. This infectious disease cannot infect standard humans. At this point in time, even if Yawgmoth develops a treatment, it will be of limited significance.
only……
Xiang Shan recalled Tao Enhai's story about "this little fish cares".
——Okay, okay, it’s never wrong to develop medical technology. Maybe there are some patients in the world who are just a short time away from waiting for the transformation surgery of the benchmark person.
Xiangshan can not care about the technology to cure acquired immunodeficiency, because he knows very well that this disease will soon become a thing of the past and will no longer be able to infect anyone. But those who have already been infected and are racing against death cannot care less.
Therefore, he did not immediately criticize Yawgmoth, but only came to ask Yawgmoth why he did what he did.
Xiangshan knew Yawgmoth. At least at that time, Yawgmoth's thoughts were roughly the same as his, believing that "human genetic modification surgery can overcome all infectious diseases." Xiangshan couldn't figure out why he suddenly went to pick up the disease.
This kind of project.
Yawgmoth gave the answer simply.
“This is a deal in exchange for some bureaucratic support,” “I need funding,” and “I’m interested.”
The first reason is quite realistic, but it is not very similar to Yawgmoth's usual style. Xiangshan was really surprised that Yawgmoth could have such awareness.
In his view, the third possible "I'm interested" component may be a little more.
However, Xiangshan still warned Yawgmoth, asking him to "use funds exclusively for his own use" and not to transfer funds from one project to another privately. Even if he wanted to transfer funds, he had to do so on a public-to-public basis.
Yawgmoth nodded well.
So, Xiangshan put the matter behind him.
A few months later, the project under Yawgmoth's name successfully produced the first batch of papers. Xiang Shan also read it and found that it was a satisfactory research.
After some time, while chatting, he mentioned this matter to Niyaguti.
That night, Xiangshan received a call from Nia Guti. Nia Guti believed that Yawgmoth might have had ulterior motives in taking those projects.
Yawgmoth's research project has the potential to "change HIV and turn it into another function."
In addition, he has put a lot of effort into "reducing toxicity".
Xiangshan didn't take it seriously. If Yawgmoth could make a new generation of vaccines, it would be considered an answer to investors.
But Niyaguti said another possibility.
Yawgmoth may have intended to use HIV on himself.
Because in some laboratories of Superman Enterprises, there is also a plan to "use HIV to destroy the primate immune system." Although this approach is rare, there have been sporadic cases in the past.
And "destroying the immune system" is the first step in the baseline human genetic modification surgery.
Xiangshan was shocked at the time. He just thought this was too nonsense. At this stage, AIDS is still a disease that is difficult to cure and carries a high risk.
but……
——As long as the operation is completed...
Niyaguti then asked: "How long has it been since Yog has not appeared in Peiping?"
This question frightened Xiang Shan.
If you think about it carefully, Xiangshan has never seen Yawgmoth offline since that conversation. He only had several online chats, and he couldn't tell what condition Yawgmoth was in.
But... if...
Xiang Shan immediately shook Zhu Xinyu awake and asked Zhu Xinyu to help check Yawgmoth's current location.
Then Zhu Xinyu was surprised to find that Yawgmoth actually used multiple springboards to disguise his position when communicating with company members.
Xiangshan immediately realized that something serious was going on.
By the time they found Yawgmoth, Yawgmoth had already injected himself with modified HIV and started the first stage of genetic modification.
This process has become difficult to reverse.
Due to his own immune reaction, Yawgmoth's condition is not very good. Xiangshan plans to send him to the hospital. But Yawgmoth said that he does not want a hospital, especially a private hospital, to take care of the most important thing in his life.
As a result, he would rather die.
In desperation, Xiangshan directly spent money to recruit a mature nursing team from the world's top hospitals.
When he originally planned to conduct human clinical trials, Xiangshan had already contacted the team at Mayo Hospital and prepared for future experiments. However, now they are still confirming their intentions, and only a few have entered the "bargaining" stage.
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But after this incident happened, Xiangshan didn't cut the price anymore, he directly went to "super double" and hired a team by force.
But Yawgmoth's condition continued to deteriorate. He fell into a coma amid a persistent high fever.
Physicians used physical methods to cool Yawgmoth's temperature, but this was not effective.
The complexity of the human central nervous system exceeds that of all other primate species.
It is precisely because of this that the system appears more fragile.
Subsequent experiments have confirmed that the most common cause of death in primate genetic modification surgeries is "slow transformation of the nervous system."
Almost 100% of humans will encounter this problem.
The nervous system must first begin to transform.
But the nervous system is not divided, so its transformation speed is the slowest in the whole body.
Not to mention that it is not easy for viruses to enter the nervous system.
At this time, Comrade Chen Feng came up with an idea.
Use viruses that can quickly infect the nervous system to carry those gene fragments to speed up the transformation of the nervous system and enable it to withstand high temperatures.