Chapter 49: The Longevity Virus

Within a short time, various personnel had gathered in the captain's room, and Oliver first showed this report to all those who did not know about it.

Although people's faces were different, the general reaction was a bit more muted than he expected, except for a few older people, most people's faces were surprised for a moment, and then quickly calmed down.

This reaction was somewhat unexpected to him, Oliver rolled his eyes and understood.

It is also true that the people on the Noah, the average age of 28, one is still in the state of young and strong, the oldest scientists are just a little over fifty, less than sixty years old, still at the peak of their careers.

In this case, a strong body, there are generally decades to live, people are rarely considered such things as life expectancy.

Extending life expectancy is just a little new to them, a little curious, and just a possibility, and not really realized.

So this great thing does not make people jump up and down with excitement, and even less exciting than the super excavator.

We are all young people, who are going to consider such things as old age and death. Want to live a long life is too simple, less smoking, less drinking, less junk food, more exercise ... these activities can extend the life span, can make people live a few more years.

However, these longevity activities are generally only remembered when you are older and can do ...

Well ... for this reaction of people, Oliver is really a little bit crying and laughing. When on earth, those leaders and rich people are crazy to invest money in researching perfectin, isn't it to get a longer life span?

When they were dying, all of them would defiantly carry out perfectin experiments in an attempt to get lucky for the last time ... although they all failed in the end.

There is a great fear between life and death!

Now it's good to have something that may actually extend life, but people are only slightly excited, probably because they are not yet old enough ...

"Everyone, I think you all know, although the Mars virus is also carbonyl organisms, but its genetic structure, protein structure and Earth organisms are completely different. We can use the Mars virus to fill in the missing elements in biology and find more points of scientific inspiration."

"Now, Professor Constantine's scientific team has some new results, please ask them to tell us in detail." Oliver waved his hand and gave a brief introduction to everyone in the audience.

Constantine was a young professor in his early thirties who had also been involved in the attack on the Martian virus. His two dark circles under his eyes were very large, giving the impression of being overworked, but his eyes were shining brightly and he was obviously being held strong by a force.

Talking about his scientific achievements, Constantine spoke with unusual excitement, "The Martian virus is not just one, but so far we have discovered 3325 different kinds of viruses."

"They are actually more complex than viruses and can survive on their own, but we still habitually call them viruses ..."

Twelve of the species in Constantine's study can cause disease, and the rest are not suited to survive long in the human body. Their research group is following up to observe these viruses.

"After more than four hundred patients recovered, we subjected them to rigorous medical examinations. Strange things please happen, after being infected by the Martian virus, the overall physical fitness score of many people went up by 1.6%!"

"This number is not big, but it is completely beyond our expectation. We thought that after a serious illness, people's physique would drop, but instead it went up." Constantine took out a chart, which listed various data.

People generally take a rigorous medical examination before Mars exploration, so all kinds of data are very detailed.

"There must be a reason for this, and we want to find the reason for it ..."

"After three months of experiments, we finally found a virus that is good for humans, called the longevity virus!"

The people at the bottom got a little fidgety, "longevity virus", the name sounds very odd ah.

"The longevity virus invades cells and reactivates the activity of human stem cells, allowing it to divide more times! It does this by repairing Dna terminal telomeres ..."

Constantine moved a whole set of scientific terms to explain, afraid that what he said was not clear, and said it again in layman's terms.

What is aging? What is the nature of aging?

For life, aging is the eternal rhythm.

Hair turns white, teeth fall out, wrinkles appear, this is the visible aging, while the decline of internal organ functions, slow reaction, poor memory, weakened resistance, this is the invisible aging.

The essence of human aging is cellular decay, and the decay of cells is mainly caused by the decay of stem cells.

For example, epithelial cells are replaced every 27-28 days and intestinal mucosal cells are replaced every 2-3 days.

The mature somatic cells of the body die due to aging or injury and need to produce their replacements at all times, and stem cells are the source of these replacements.

However, stem cells also divide a number of times, which is influenced by Dna telomeres. Scientists have found that with each round of Dna replication, a segment of Dna is lost at the end, which is the telomere.

It acts like a helmet, ensuring the integrity of the Dna sequence by "sacrificing" itself.

However, without this compensation mechanism, Dna will eventually shorten or even disappear after thousands of generations of replication, resulting in two consequences - aging and tumor. Therefore, the number of divisions of a stem cell is limited.

"The longevity virus, which can repair part of the telomeres at the end of Dna, reactivates the activity of aging stem cells ..." Professor Constantine said fervently, "according to the experimental data, it can make the number of divisions of stem cells, increase by 30%-50%!"

"In other words, it can make the human life expectancy increase significantly, and if controlled well, 50% is also possible!"

His voice was getting louder and louder, obviously deeply proud of this discovery, "At that time, human aging will slow down dramatically, and people's average life expectancy can reach 110-130 years old!"

"After the age of 100, humans will only age significantly! There is not much difference between a 20-year-old and a 50-year-old."

At this point, everyone understood, the heart beat hard twice, this is a visible benefit ah, humans have such good luck!

Although it is said that this kind of life extension effect is not worth mentioning compared to perfectin, but it is invented by human beings with their own technology, it is available to all!

Oliver suddenly sighed a little, really the world is unpredictable ah. There is still such a thing on Mars! If the high officials and rich people on Earth know this news, it is estimated that they will really build big spaceships and run to Mars ...

There are many programs to extend life, the most powerful is the perfect vegetation, but the people of Earth spent so much manpower and resources did not do. Now, a longevity virus has somehow done it instead ...

Although the effect is much less, but also can extend the life of forty to fifty years, but also has been very good!