Chapter 420
When Tao Shengwen saw his assistant running over in a panic, he comforted him: "Don't panic when encountering things. There is no problem that cannot be solved. What kind of thing happened that made you lose your sense of responsibility."
The assistant took a few deep breaths to relieve his panic. He said hoarsely: "Director, the pig is dead, all the pigs are dead."
Tao Shengwen didn't react and said in surprise: "When the pig dies, which pig dies."
"The pigs that we verified the safety of space plants died. All the pigs that ate various space plants three days ago died. Space plants are poisonous and are highly lethal to mammals." The assistant explained briefly and quickly.
"What? Why is this happening? Space plants are actually poisonous!" Tao Shengwen said in shock.
He didn't expect that as soon as he saw the dawn, he was bolt from the blue.
Space plants are actually toxic and contain highly lethal toxins, which is really shocking.
The hopeful space agriculture just now was directly destroyed. Space plants are poisonous. People cannot eat this space plant, and animals raised cannot eat this space plant. So what is its function?
Tao Shengwen immediately strengthened his confidence. He could not panic now and rushed to the laboratory where problems arise.
They have invested so much in space plant projects, and they must not give up research just because of this problem.
Space plants are poisonous, so you need to figure out where they are poisoned and whether this toxin can be solved.
Tao Shengwen came to the laboratory and saw scientists dissecting pigs poisoned by space plants.
Scientists did not miss any detail and tested the cells of these pigs.
Scientists are also monitoring the still-surviving pigs and exploring the way space plants use to kill pigs.
What kind of destruction did the pig withstand during the three days of feeding space plants?
When Tao Shengwen came here, he immediately asked the responsible scientist: "Zheng Xing, what problem did these pigs die? Is the toxicity of space plants really so great?"
He is very worried about the situation of the project now, and when he is on the verge of success, he suddenly encounters a blow that can cause the project to die directly.
Such unexpected emergencies are the most unpredictable things in the scientific research process.
Zheng Xing simply responded: "Director Tao, we are still exploring the specific reasons, and we can only wait for the pigs to be dissected and the results will be obtained by physiological sections.
Only then can we understand what problem he died because of. By monitoring the physiological reactions of space plants in the pig's body for a long time, we can understand how it causes the pig to die.
But from the situation where I dissected the pig, the pig should have died of organ failure.
I saw signs of large-scale decomposition of pig liver and kidney cells.
This decomposition process is very fast, unlike ordinary bacterial infections or lethal toxins, and the pig's death process has nothing to do with energy radiation."
Tao Shengwen knew that the only thing he could do now was to wait for the specific result.
He mobilized scientists to concentrate on studying the pig's death process and told Zhou Yu the news.
Zhou Yu received news from Tao Shengwen, and he quickly rushed to the cell laboratory.
"Director Tao, what's going on now?" Zhou Yu asked with concern.
"Pig physiological slice tests are now being performed, and it will be soon found why the pig died.
We are still focusing on the specific causes of pig death in space plants.
Scientists have comprehensively monitored the changes in their bodies that consumed space plants two days ago.
We also urgently arranged for mammals such as mice, rabbits and monkeys to conduct experiments."
Tao Shengwen briefly introduced the situation here to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Don't worry, after all, it is transplanting an exogenous organelle into normal plant cells. Any situation is possible.
Now we need to find out the specific problem and find ways to solve it.
We are only one step away from breaking through this project. The company will never withdraw its investment now and fully support you in research."
Zhou Yu encouraged Tao Shengwen so that he felt relieved that the company would never give up on them.
"Thanks to Mr. Zhou for his strong support. On behalf of all the scientists in the Cell Laboratory, I promised that we will do our best to solve the problem." Tao Shengwen's worried expression was relieved a little, and he assured excitedly.
They have been waiting for the scientists' experimental results, and Tao Shengwen also discussed with Zhou Yu about the possible causes of large-scale deaths of space plants.
The scientists quickly completed the detection of pig physiological slices. Zheng Xing took the report summarized by the scientists and directly reported to Tao Shengwen and Zhou Yu.
"Director Tao, we have detected the specific cause of death of the pig.
Pigs die of acute liver failure, and most organs in the pigs fail together due to acute liver failure.
Now we are tracking the causes of acute liver failure in pigs.”
After scientists found the cause of the pig's death, they began to track what factors caused the pig's death.
Scientists started to conduct animal experiments at the same time with multiple mammals, making the results they obtained universal.
Zhou Yu received a report that scientists have developed the specific causes of the death of pigs.
He came to Tao Shengwen's laboratory and saw Tao Shengwen shook his head and sighing.
"What's going on? Is the problem very tricky?" Zhou Yu sat down and asked.
Tao Shengwen said listlessly: "This problem is difficult to solve, and it has a lot to do with the life organelles of Ceres.
Ceres' life organelles require special protein structures, but this is not the cause of pig death.
Ceres' life organelles are not toxic, even if they are more toxic proteins, they enter the digestive system.
They are decomposed by gastric juice and digestive enzymes, and they will all be inactivated and will be no longer toxic.
The protein structure of Ceres' life organelles is broken down by digestive enzymes in the mammalian digestive system.
A part of the polypeptides with special structures are absorbed by the intestinal wall of the mammal and enter the blood system.
It is this polypeptide structure that has a fatal killing ability to mammalian liver cells. As long as the concentration accumulates enough, liver cells will experience acute failure.
Space plant cells contain Ceres' life organelles. When it is digested and absorbed by mammals, the absorption rate of this lethal peptide is different due to mammalian ethnic differences.
But as long as it is a mammal, it will be as short as two days or seven days long as it is, it will definitely die due to acute liver failure."
When Zhou Yu heard Tao Shengwen's introduction, he knew that the problem is very difficult now, and the problem really lies in the life organelles of Ceres.
But this cell organelle is still the most important function of space plants, and it cannot be replaced at all.
Current animal experiments show that space plants cannot be eaten as long as they are mammals.
This has almost become an unsolvable problem. Can you only have to give up this project?
Chapter completed!