Magus Tech (Technological Wizard)

Soon, Li Cha saw Gutas' method of suicide, which was... hunger strike.

Gutas was full of confidence in this, but Richard didn't care.

Then……

On the first day of the hunger strike, Gutas was alive and kicking.

On the second day of the hunger strike, Gutas was business as usual.

On the third day of the hunger strike, Gutas did not change.

Fourth day of hunger strike.

Laboratory, in the main laboratory.

Gutas was firmly tied to the chair, and Richard drew a certain amount of blood from the opponent's arm and put it into the test tube.

Turning around, he inserted a special needle into Gutas' vein. Behind the needle was a leather tube and a strange device. Behind the leather tube was a glass bottle. The glass bottle contained a prepared, 0.9% concentration. Physiological saline, and 5% glucose solution.

Gutas couldn't move, watching Li Cha's operation, his eyes were full of resentment.

Li Cha had a calm face, and even smiled a little: "To be honest, you should have gone on a hunger strike two days earlier. After all, compared to eating, through infusion, you only need 600ml of normal saline and 120ml of glucose. daily needs of the human body.

Physiological saline can be configured in any way, just need salt and water. Glucose may be slightly more troublesome, but it can be obtained by acid hydrolysis of some starch. No matter how you look at it, it's easier than feeding you food. Of course, this is a bit anti-human, and I didn't intend to do it at first, but you chose this way yourself, and I can't help it, right?

In other words, this way of maintaining life should not be too long, otherwise it will cause malnutrition. But it doesn't matter, wait for a while, I can feed you liquid food by nasal feeding to supplement the nutrition that cannot be obtained by infusion. At that time, it will be more painful to insert a gastric tube, so you must prepare yourself mentally in advance. After all, it's all your choice, right? "

Gutas was already a little desperate in his heart. He fully understood a truth: if it falls into the hands of Richard, he will not die!

This is... completely, no matter how dead or alive you are!

shameless!

...

In Gutas' desperation, many days passed.

Laboratory, main laboratory.

Under the candlelight, Richard used a quill pen to quickly write the experimental handbook.

"Swish..."

"...the experiment went well and the results were as expected..."

"...The theory I got is slightly different from the previous one, but the direction is correct..."

"... The extreme amplification hormone extracted with difficulty was injected back into the body of the test subject. The test subject produced an increase similar to the third peak of the previous experiment, while the second peak and the first peak were weakened. This shows that there is a negative feedback regulation phenomenon.

That is, the medicine prompts the body to secrete the 'extreme boost hormone', and the 'limit boost hormone' stimulates the blood glands to secrete the 'limit boost hormone'. At the same time as the 'extreme boost hormone' works, it will inhibit the 'limit boost hormone' and the medicine to continue to exert its effect..."

"...To sum up, the mechanism of action of the bloodline seed secret and Spartan's heroic potion is arranged as follows.

When ordinary people use medicine: medicine → adjust the human body, exert the amplification effect, and release the 'limit amplification hormone' → terminate.

When the bloodline seed activates the power: the bloodline gland → secretes the 'normal amplification hormone' → regulates the human body, exerts the amplification effect → terminates.

When the bloodline seed activates the power and uses the medicine: medicine→regulate the human body, exert the amplification effect, and release the 'limit amplification hormone' → stimulate the bloodline glands → secrete the 'limit amplification hormone' → regulate the human body, exert the third peak type amplification effect , the ability to explode beyond the limits of the human body → terminate.

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After a pause, Li Cha's eyes became serious, and he continued to write on the papyrus scroll used as the experimental handbook:

"Through the above, the most valuable part of this theory is undoubtedly the utilization of the limit-amplifying hormone. The specific mechanism of this hormone's action on the human body is not yet clear, but its effect is completely beyond imagination, and only a very small amount is required. It can make an ordinary person incarnate into a 'superman', and it is not an exaggeration to call it 'the blood of God'.

But how to use it is a huge problem.

The first is the difficulty of extraction, there are many links to overcome, the success rate is not high, the output rate is extremely low, the process is unstable, and the cost is high.

In addition, the source is scarce, and it must be provided by experimental products with bloodline seeds, which cannot be produced on a large scale. In fact, even small-scale production cannot do it. At present, only a very small number of laboratory tests can be met, and they cannot be used in practice. "

"call--"

Letting out a breath, Richard stopped writing and thought.

At present, the research on Spartan's heroic potion and bloodline seeds has fallen into a bottleneck. The biggest research result-"God's blood" has been confirmed, but it cannot be used.

It's like trying to guess the lottery jackpot number, but you can't buy a lottery ticket because you lack two dollars.

How to solve it?

Li Cha rubbed his eyebrows hard.

How do hormones like this "blood of gods" solve problems on the modern earth, and how can they be mass-produced?

In modern areas, the most representative case should be...insulin.

Well, insulin.

Insulin is a protein hormone secreted by islet beta cells in the pancreas. It is the only hormone in the human body that lowers blood sugar and is the main drug for diabetes treatment.

Therefore, insulin was discovered in 1921 and used clinically in 1922 to treat diabetes—before insulin was discovered, diabetes was a terminal disease similar to cancer.

With the development of the times, the acceleration of urbanization and the prolongation of human lifespan, the number of diabetic patients continues to increase - in the modern urban living environment, the prevalence of diabetes increases by 68% for every 10 years of age increase - therefore, the amount of insulin demand is linear rise.

Initially, people extracted insulin from animals, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. There are certain differences in the amino acid sequence and structure of these mammalian insulin molecules. Among them, pig insulin is the closest to human. People get insulin from pigs to treat diabetes—this is the first generation of insulin.

However, porcine insulin, the first-generation insulin, differs from human insulin in 1 to 4 amino acids, and is prone to immune response, subcutaneous fat atrophy or hyperplasia at the injection site, and allergic reaction to insulin. And because of its high immunogenicity, it is prone to repeated hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, and insulin resistance occurs. Most importantly, the yield is not very high due to the number of live pig pancreas.

So people after decades of research, the development of second-generation insulin.

The second generation of insulin is the use of genetically engineered (recombinant DNA) yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia or Hansenula), recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO), etc. to express high-purity synthetic human insulin. Its structure is the same as that of insulin secreted by the body itself, eliminating many of the defects of first-generation insulin. And tissue cultured microorganisms, or transgenic animals, can be used for large-scale production and are widely used to treat patients.

The third-generation insulin that followed was also developed on the basis of the second-generation insulin. Using genetic engineering technology, some structures on the insulin peptide chain have been changed to develop insulin analogs that are more suitable for the physiological needs of the human body.

Overall, in short, the way to solve this problem on the modern planet is... genetic engineering.

"Genetic engineering." Li Cha said condensedly, all thoughts.