Chapter 256 Biosafety
Observation of Animal Network.
The full broadcast of the additional election of academicians was conducted, and several scholars were also invited to comment.
Dong Gandi and another host, plus three scholars, watched the live broadcast of the Great Hall.
Seeing Jiang Miao on stage to deliver a speech, the Emperor of Liver asked with a smile: "Mr. Jiang Miao deserves to be an academician of the Academy of Engineering, but why are there still academicians of the Academy of Sciences? I am a little puzzled."
Professor Zhao, one of the scholars on the side, mentioned holding his glasses: "I have read Mr. Jiang Miao's papers. He deserves his reputation as an academician of the Academy of Engineering, because the large-scale application results of fairy beans and soybeans must meet the selection criteria of the Academy of Engineering. However, the selection criteria of the Academy of Sciences are biased towards the theoretical field. I have not seen relevant papers on the Internet, but there may be confidentiality requirements for the relevant papers!" Professor He, who did not wear sunglasses, also said: "Yes." It may actually involve confidential papers, but I am not very familiar with the field of biology. Xiao Geng should probably know some things."
Dr. Geng smiled and said, "From the relevant papers that Mr. Jiang Miao has published, his theory is more unique, or has a high degree of innovation. Sometimes, when I browse these papers, I will have a clear sense of separation."
"Oh? Can Dr. Geng solve our doubts?" Dong Gandi immediately led the topic. "This aspect needs to be explained in detail, and it is difficult to take a long time. I will just say a few points." Dr. Geng paused for a while, then continued:
"Mr. Jiang Miao's related papers can be divided into three fields, namely agricultural breeding, genetic targets, and biological materials."
"In fact, this seems to be three fields, but in fact it can also be regarded as one field, that is, agricultural breeding and biological materials are derived from gene targets and gene editing technology."
Heard Dr. Geng's description.
Whether it is Dong Gandi, Professor He and Professor Zhao are all thinking, and many viewers who are watching the live video also understand.
Especially those scientific researchers engaged in biology research in confidential institutions in China, the Nuwa system they are currently using comes from Hailufeng Company, and to be more precise, comes from Jiang Miao.
Therefore, these people are very clear that Jiang Miao is not only very powerful in the application field, but his contribution to the theoretical field is even more valuable, but these theories are confidential that cannot be disclosed.
This is why I look at many papers by Jiang Miao and his wife. They are obviously the same author, but many of them seem a bit disintegrating and span multiple fields.
Because this lacks the most critical biological theory.
Dr. Geng expressed his guess: "But we have not seen relevant biological theories from the public paper materials. It is obvious that the core theories of this part should be in a state that cannot be disclosed. I estimate that this part of the theoretical content is the basis for Mr. Jiang Miao to obtain the academician of the Academy of Sciences."
"It is very likely, but this kind of information should be very sensitive, right?" Dong Gandi was also a little worried, after all, this is a live video broadcast.
"Host, don't worry." Dr. Geng joked half-joke: "Actually, even I, a small doctor of probiotics, have guessed some of the situation. Scholars in the biology field all over the world have such speculations."
"So that's it, foreign scholars also guessed this way?" Dong Gandi asked with his glasses.
"My mentor and I attended several global biotechnology forums this year. During this period, many foreign scholars asked about this. They asked Mr. Jiang Miao if he had discovered a brand new biological theory." Although Professor He is a scholar in theoretical physics, he is still quite interested in biological theory, so he asked, "Xiao Geng, why do you think foreign scholars will guess this way?"
"Haha, it's very simple, that is the number of results." Dr. Geng did not hide it.
Professor Zhao also reacted: "Well, Xiao Geng makes sense." Dr. Geng explained clearly: "Since 2024, Mr. Jiang Miao has completed a total of 26 results, including artificial breeding technology of eels, pandan strawberries, celestial beans, soybeans, mic bananas, durian, etc., with a total of 26 results. If Academician Lin's achievements and undisclosed confidentiality technology are added, even with the assistance of other scientific researchers, the number of results will be very large."
Dong Gandi's eyes also showed obvious Surprised: "If you don't say it, I don't feel it yet. Once you say it, I'm shocked."
Another host nodded, "Yes! These technical achievements are very successful, and many of them have extremely high strategic value. They appear intensively in such a short period of time. No wonder foreign scholars suspect that Mr. Jiang Miao has a special biological theory."
Professor He asked curiously: "Xiao Geng, you are a researcher in the field of biology. What do you think Mr. Jiang Miao's biological theory should be? Can you guess?"
"Yes! I'm very curious, probably the same is true for the audience." Dong Gandi said.
At this time, a lot of barrage scenes appeared in the live broadcast room:
[Curious], [Curious Baby], [Open the door and check the water meter], [Same] and other barrage scenes.
Dr. Geng didn't think that such a thing could not be said. After all, there have been various speculations in the academic circles of the biology field at home and abroad, and even some situations have been secretly tested.
After all, with the increasing number of people using the Nuwa system, even if some people only come into contact with a small part of the content, information leakage is inevitable.
It is just a core secret, which the outside world does not know, and there is no way to detect the scientific research base hidden inside Tamin Chagan Farm.
He said half-jokingly: "It should be a theoretical model that can quickly screen gene targets, because this is also the direction that many scholars in the field of biology are currently working on. This theoretical model can improve the efficiency of biological breeding and thus obtain a large number of breeding results in a short period of time."
Dong Gandi asked in confusion: "Dr. Geng, I heard that the current gene editing technology can already edit what traits are needed?"
"Gene editing technology can indeed do this now, but there is a prerequisite, that is, you must know the function represented by this gene, which is the difficulty of gene editing technology."
Dong Gandi said according to his own understanding: "Can I understand this way, gene editing technology is similar to a gun, and how to make the bullets shot from this gun hit the bull's eye accurately become the key."
"It's almost the same, that's the reason."
Another host opened a new topic: "Dr. Geng, do you think the gene editing baby technology is possible to be widely used in the future for the increasingly developed gene technology?"
Many people are very interested in this topic.
Dr. Geng seemed a little cautious and even worried about this: "At present, technology is equipped with the prerequisites for gene editing babies, but this involves scientific ethics in the field of biology. I think that even if gene editing technology is used in humans in the future, very strict controls must be adopted, otherwise it will easily lead to catastrophic consequences." Professor He joked: "Maybe in our lifetime, we can see the new human wars against natural persons."
Professor Zhao, who understands the social operation mechanism better, shook his head and sighed: "Technology is developing. If we don't use it, others will use it. This situation is difficult to control!"
"This is indeed very difficult to deal with." Dr. Geng deeply felt.
"This is a bit similar to the dark forest theory of "The Three-Body Problem"." Dong Gandi said slowly with a thoughtful look: "Now, at least a dozen countries in all countries around the world have relevant biotechnology, and biotechnology involves medical, food, ecology, national defense and other fields of all parties. It will definitely not be easily supervised, which creates blind spots."
"In this blind spot, everyone will doubt whether others are secretly conducting human-related gene editing experiments. Faced with this situation, the only way is to study the same thing. Unless the world achieves great unification that day, this chain of suspicion will not be easily lifted."
Observing the comments of Animal Network, although it is a bit harsh.
But it has indeed caused many people to worry about biotechnology. After all, there has been an illegal human fetal gene editing case in China. After serving his sentence, the researcher continued to engage in research related to human gene editing, and even preparing for new gene experiments.
Of course, don't look at the loud noises on the Internet.
In fact, the discussion in reality is not fierce, mainly because many people do not care about such things.
The Internet sometimes amplifies this kind of discussion. In fact, most people in the country belong to the silent majority.
Many people took a look and forgot it.
There are also many malicious forces that are secretly fueling the fire.
For example, in the video of another famous science blogger, the possibility of genetic modification, gene editing, and biotechnology weaponization is greatly exaggerated.
However, his intimidating propaganda has brought another unexpected consequence, that is, the number of people supporting genetic modification and gene editing is increasing rapidly.
Because many people are really scared.
In addition, Western forces have always been far ahead in not being a human being.
This made many people involuntarily worry about whether Western forces would use them to make weapons or target Cyris if they mastered these technologies. Obviously the answer is inevitable.
Because when domestic AI technology was developing explosively in the past two years, many Western Internet companies quietly deleted the clause "not applying AI technology to weapon development".
In other words, Western forces may verbally say that they cannot weaponize biotechnology, but maybe in a few years, they will have another face.
This sense of crisis has triggered many people's concerns.
The enemy's concerns about mastering relevant biological weapons overwhelming other negative effects on biotechnology.
Obviously this is an unexpected result of many behind-the-scenes forces, but they have already said it and want to take it back, but it is basically impossible.
People always have a preconceived inertia.
Sometimes, the most effective way to change an idea is not to keep promoting it, but to wait for those stubborn elderly people to die.
Just like the food safety that is refuted by popular science every year, many elderly people believe in the rumors from more than ten years ago and have to instill in young people every festival.
For example, the new technology of Hailufeng Company is durian.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Some of the elderly think that these durians are full of technology and ruthlessness, and they are determined not to eat them, and they are not allowed to eat them at home.
In fact, the durian of Hailufeng Company is safer and fresher than Siamese durian. After all, the concept of safe food is the corporate brand of Hailufeng Company.
It's a pity that I can't stand many people's suspicion.
However, those marketing accounts dare not spread rumors about the durian and other products of Hailufeng Company. Unless they have real evidence, they will be sent in by the legal affairs of Hailufeng Company in minutes.
But in reality, there is definitely no way to eliminate the rumors in the streets and alleys.
Many aunts and grandpas like to hear this kind of thing the most, while those fruit shops and vegetable stall operators are the groups that like to spread rumors the most.
This is simply a pair of lying dragon and phoenix chicks.
The reason for this is that vegetable stalls and fruit shops are more consuming and familiar with customers, which gives rise to the breeding soil for spreading rumors.
These self-employed individuals have created the best products of my family by spreading rumors and smearing other businesses. They have grown their own products, or they are all good things, and other people's products are covered with pesticides, preservatives, and hormones.
The old men and mothers like to listen to this kind of remarks the most and then buy high-priced products from the operators.
This is exactly the same as the routines of a large number of live streaming anchors on the Internet.
Unified words: Other people’s things are not good, but my things are good.
In fact, pesticides have become increasingly less toxic, and many of them are products that can degrade quickly.
For example, the pesticide and fertilizer business department recently established by Hailufeng Company.
There are more than a dozen low-toxic, even non-toxic pesticides. The mechanism of action of these pesticides is to distribute pheromones that insects hate and fear through genetic targets, so that the insects can actively leave the planting area.
And this pheromone removal potion has two other benefits in addition to being low in toxicity and non-toxic.
One is that it will not cause drug resistance.
One is that it will not eliminate beneficial insects.
This is very different from traditional chemical pesticides.
Of course, this pheromone-exciting pesticide is not without its shortcomings. Its disadvantages include:
The formula is complex, basically one insect and one medicine;
The environmental degradation speed is extremely fast, and it can usually only last for four or five days;
The production raw materials are highly dependent on natural plants.
Hailufeng Company's pheromone expulsion medicine has 33 core raw materials, including the more common mugwort, chrysanthemum, oil tea seed cake, soybean meal, calla lily, highly toxic cassava, tung oil, rubber tree, ginkgo tree, eucommia tree, cactus, etc.
From these plants, many of them are relatively common plants, even cash crops.
In fact, it is not that the extracts of these plants have a special effect of expelling insects, but the formula specifically uses extracts of these plants, with the purpose of reducing costs.
In other plants, the same or similar ingredients also exist, but why not use them?
The reason lies in the need of cost control.
For example, there is an aromatic hydrocarbon substance extracted from the leaves of agarwood. Combined with other natural extracts and some auxiliary materials, it can effectively drive away red spiders. In the absence of heavy rain, the maintenance time can reach about 18 days.
However, the content of this aromatic hydrocarbon substance in agarwood leaves is very low, and only 0.8 mg can be extracted per ton of agarwood leaves. The production cost is too high and it is not economically promoted.
Unless it can be chemically synthesized, this formula can only be left behind.
At present, Hailufeng Company's pheromone expulsion agriculture adopts a very efficient use strategy, which is to first use it from the central area of the farm, and then extend in all directions in a circle to expel specific insects from the farm.
Then an isolation belt was established outside the farm, using an automatic spray tower, and the pheromone concentration in the isolation belt was regularly maintained, so that the pests dared not enter the farm.
This method can reduce the use of many pesticides.
The larger the farm area, the more concentrated it is, and the higher the cost-effectiveness of the pheromone isolation belt.
As for a small number of fish that escaped, their ecological niches within the farm are actually difficult to maintain. After all, there are other insect-eating animals inside the farm. These insect-eating animals will make this small number of fish that escaped, facing a large number of predators, and it is difficult to expand the population size.
In addition, when Hailufeng Company uses information expulsion agents, it does not drive away all pests at once, but formulates different plans in different categories.
If it is an insect that exists in China, it cannot be expelled, but a certain population density must be retained to maintain ecological balance.
If it is an invaded pest from abroad, it will be completely expelled to completely force it out of the farm.
Of course, Hailufeng Company is not the kind of enterprise that harms neighbors. This pheromone expulsion drug itself cannot eliminate insects. Therefore, these insects will be enriched in the surrounding mountains and forests and farmlands of the farm in a short period of time, which can easily lead to pest damage in these areas.
This is another use of pheromone isolation belt.
In addition to the pheromone isolation belt, there is another temporary pheromone isolation belt, which can lock these pests in the area, and then use highly toxic and easily degradable drugs to kill these pests at one time to prevent these pests from running out to harm surrounding farmland and forests.
Therefore, Hailufeng Company, as well as its cooperative related growers and enterprises, are gradually adopting this efficient and low-cost method to eliminate pests.
In the core area of the farm, it is generally not necessary to spray insect-killing drugs for more than half a year, but bacteria and fungi need to be prevented and treated.
There is no way to do this, and bacteria and fungi cannot be completely eliminated.
Even indoor farms can only compress the living space of harmful microorganisms by regular disinfection, replacement of nutrient soil, and cultivation of beneficial microorganisms.
Therefore, among the domestic agricultural products at this stage, the safety conditions of Hailufeng-based agricultural products are the best. Not only are the planting process very good, but the management of this industrial chain is also very strict.
(This chapter ends)