Chapter 169 40% To 70% Of The Mission!
Chapter 169 40% To 70% Of The Mission!
Zuo Gaoming was stunned, suddenly realized something, and stood up in a hurry.
Hundreds of petri dishes are "cooked" on the experimental table. The random bacteria battle to determine the final king. The white colonies are in full bloom. As far as you can see, the winning bacteria are all competing bacteria.
However, the scene in the petri dish in Song He's hands was completely different!
There are white colonies on the left half, and a gray colony emerges on the right half, evenly matched, like a Tai Chi diagram.
"Can't it?" Zuo Gaoming opened his eyes wide and said in a weak tone, "It's an ultra-low probability event, it can't be...two times in a row, right?"
"Wait a minute, I'll take a look." Song He said.
After adjusting the microscope, he leaned over the eyepiece, feeling nervous.
The scene in the field of vision is quite spectacular. The open space is filled with corpses of E. coli, which are crispy and crumbly, like puffed food that has been broken open.
More E. coli are passing over the dead body of the senior and attacking aggressively to the other side!
On the opposite side, a continuous line of seaweed-shaped filamentous fungi is struggling to secrete substances.
The number of fungi was huge, but the secreted substances seemed not very powerful. The E. coli bacteria washed away for a long time and were showered with fungal secretions for a long time before they slowly stopped and broke apart from the middle, leaving behind a pile of new dead bodies.
The black technology blueprint pops up, and the progress bar instantly reaches 40%!
[Congratulations on obtaining bacteria with unknown antibiotic potential! Please name it! 】
Song He thought for a while and said silently, "River bacteria!"
[River fungus: a wild fungus that secretes unknown antibiotics, has many spores and reproduces quickly]
Compared with the numerous introductions of Song Fungus, He Fungus is much shorter.
But he was keenly aware of the problem. The sparse Song bacteria secreted a little antibiotic, and the E. coli bacteria eroded large areas as if they were bombarded. However, the huge river bacteria sprayed out antibiotics like rain, and the E. coli bacteria were slightly injured and even had the energy to launch an attack.
Song bacterium secretes very strong antibiotics, but it itself is very weak.
River bacteria are very strong on their own, but the antibiotics they secrete are very weak.
Zuo Gaoming held his breath nervously, waiting for Song He's observation results.
After holding his breath for too long, he was a little hypoxic and couldn't help but ask, "Is it antibiotic bacteria?"
"Yes." Song He nodded and moved away from the microscope, "I named it river fungus."
Zuo Gaoming rushed forward and shouted excitedly, "I want to be the second person in the world to see river fungi!"
Song He couldn't laugh or cry, what's so exciting about this?
When Zuo Gaoming shouted, everyone in the laboratory suddenly turned their heads and looked over uncertainly.
"What's wrong?" Lu Chengen probed.
"A new antibiotic fungus was discovered, and I named it river fungus." Song He said.
Lu Chengen was stunned, "Are you kidding?"
"Really! It's really secreting antibiotics!" Zuo Gaoming howled and jumped excitedly.
Lu Chengen's expression changed, and he hurriedly put down the test tube in his hand, ran over like a teleport, pushed his eldest apprentice aside, and couldn't wait to get on the microscope.
After hearing the news, Ji Zining and Tao Miaochun rushed over and started fighting with Lu Chengen without saying a word. The three professors lost their composure in front of everyone and started fighting for the microscope like a maniac.
"How unbecoming!" Professor Ma scolded angrily as he came over in a wheelchair.
The three professors immediately calmed down, looked at the stunned students in the laboratory, and regained consciousness.
"Show me first!" Professor Ma patted the armrest of his wheelchair, as majestic as an angry old emperor.
Song He was very discerning and quickly picked up the microscope and placed it on the armrest of the wheelchair and held it with both hands.
Professor Ma observed attentively, and then nodded repeatedly.
"The shape is unique, it should be a new bacteria that has not been discovered before!"
"But the MIC and MBC are visibly low. I'm afraid the antibiotics won't be effective. They're far from being used for medicine, and they're even worse than the previous Songbacteria."
"But in the final analysis, it is a new antibiotic bacteria, which has research value! I didn't expect that there were two new bacteria in one day. Others could not find one after years of digging, but you found them in pairs."
Professor Ma suddenly raised his head and stared at Song He sharply, "Did all your soil come from the school lake?"
"We dug some soil by the lake at the school, and we dug some soil in the pine forest on the seaside." Song He answered.
"By the school lake? Is this the artificial lake in our school?" Ji Zining was stunned when he heard it.
"right!"
Ji Zining ran away, waving to his graduate students, "Take the sampler and follow me!"
Professor Ji's students were also very smart and had already prepared. Each of them carried a large bag full of sampling bottles and rushed out of the laboratory after their teacher.
Song He was dumbfounded. The lawn by the lake could not be saved at all. He had dug it all night and it looked like it had been bombed. Professor Ji brought so many people there, wouldn't it turn everything upside down?
Tao Miaochun's face was full of excitement, but he regained his composure after a moment, and said with a helpless smile, "The soil samples in the laboratory were also dug from the seaside. After sifting thousands of samples, none came out. Song He, you are the chosen one!"
"Good luck, good luck!" Song He laughed.
"Luck is supported by strength. Why can't others be lucky? If you are good at cultivating bacteria, you may be able to retain some fragile bacteria, such as Song fungus. The same soil sample is cultivated by others, but it will become extinct if it cannot be cultivated. "Professor Ma commented.
In the distance, the eavesdropping graduate students were thoughtful.
"What are you going to do next?" Professor Ma asked.
Song He took a look at the black technology blueprint. From the 40% to 70% stage, the song fungus and the river fungus are mixed and cultured to promote the formation of a close symbiosis between the two and complete a total of three stages of deep adhesion.
He was a little surprised. Fungi can still coexist with each other?
"Professor Ma, can fungi and fungi live in symbiosis?" Song He asked.
"Yes, it's extremely rare." Professor Ma pondered, "You want Songjun River fungi to coexist? What's the point of this?"
"I want to give it a try." Song He did not answer in detail because he didn't know what would happen.
"Fungi are usually cultured separately. If two different fungi are mixed and cultured, it is easy for one to destroy the other! Song fungi eat and reproduce slowly, but river fungi multiply quickly. If they are mixed, river fungi will dominate the culture medium. "Professor Ma judged.
Song He was silent. He predicted that this would be the result. Under the offensive of He Jun who was crazy about giving birth to babies, Song He would be squeezed out of his position.
But the black technology blueprint requires him to do this, so he can only bite the bullet!
Relying on the fungus see-through capsule, maybe he can manage to change the two types of bacteria so that they are evenly matched and eventually coexist harmoniously!
You can imagine how difficult it is. Song He's palms get sweaty just thinking about it.
"Instead of doing meaningless mixed breeding, it is better to teach you gene editing." Professor Ma suggested seriously.
"How to find out the antibiotic manufacturing gene of Songbacterium? How to knock out the gene? How to transplant the antibiotic gene into the engineered bacteria that reproduce quickly? How to prevent the engineered bacteria from being killed by their own secretions? The knowledge is huge!"
"Professor, I want to learn all the things you said, but I also want to try mixed culture." Song He said with a determined expression, "It only lasts a few days. If there are no results this week, I will give up!"
Professor Ma looked at him in confusion for a long time, then finally nodded and held out two fingers.
"First, mixed culture is meaningless. What results do you expect to get from raising it?"
"Second, if you want to do something, even if it makes no sense or produces no results, I will support you in doing it!"
Song He was startled and actually moved a little, "If you support me, can you allocate some manpower to me?"
"Allocate manpower?" Professor Ma looked around at the vast petri dishes and understood something.
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