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- Xia Yuande can earn and spend money, but due to his busy work, he and Li Zhuang cannot see each other several times a year, although they often communicate by phone. He likes to join in the fun, so big events are never without this guy.
"As long as it involves opponents who cannot turn enemies into friends, they must be killed. They cannot become vegetarians just because we help. Besides, some forces in Citigroup believe in racism, so we must take the opportunity to weaken their power."
"Haha, yes, we are going to add insult to injury. I'm going to listen to the news, nnd, these people are messing around, and now they finally taste the pain." After Xia Yuande said that, he went to the business information center to find the old fox Bobby Brady.
Li Zhuang thought about it and called Guo Bao. He went back to his hometown to visit relatives and also took Simpson to the Giant Panda Research Base in Province C. He didn¡¯t know where it was now. ¡°Guo Bao, when will you come back?¡±
"Panda"'s voice came from the other end of the phone, very pleasantly, "It will be a while, is there anything? If it involves plants, please contact Zheng Fei, and if it involves health products, please contact Mikhail."
The computer expert was a little depressed. The two chatted for a few words and then hung up the phone. After getting in the car, Chen Xiaojun asked about it. Li Zhuang said a few perfunctory words and then fell into deep thought.
?? Han Shumei is a good person. Although she is very "money obsessed", she is very kind and has good abilities. This may be related to her education and family background since she was a child. When we were in K city, the medical laboratory developed a residue detector, but it was not launched on the market. It was officially promoted three years ago, and after five improvements, it has a perfect version.
Standards for residue detectors are a big issue, and this is where companies and other forces are fiercely fighting. The Department of Medicine and the Institute of Medical Research are two parts of the same body. It has a close relationship with the Department of Biology and the Institute of Genetic Engineering in the company, both fighting and cooperating, mainly about ideas.
According to the academic department system of the three colleges of Wesson, the Institute of Genetic Engineering is called the Department of Genetics, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence is the Department of Computer Science, and asa is called the Department of Astronautics. At first, it was just a few researchers calling for convenience, but later everyone developed a habit. Although the confidentiality levels and management structures of the three major research institutes and asa are different from those of other brother units, most units are still under the control of the college-level system.
In the past, wih was juxtaposed with was. With the transfer of many units, its size has been reduced by 60%, and it has a tendency to become a subordinate organization of was. The "money fan" approached Li Zhuang about the downgrade of the medical department, but the computer expert said he respected the management's decision, so she had to give up. The psychological gap is short-lived. Han Shumei doesn't like being an official, but many people in the Department of Medicine are not very willing to see this kind of result. High-end research involving the human body in the Department of Genetics and Biology is very strict, and these are unavoidable. of small-scale infighting.
No matter how much internal fighting there is, the company¡¯s system and establishment spirit are there. The three institutions have complete research systems related to food safety and have achieved remarkable results. The Ministry of Medicine published a series of books called "WIH Health Guide" in June last year, officially promoting the company's full set of food standards to all parts of the world, causing an uproar.
"Health Guide" is beautifully printed, with detailed data, thorough consideration, and careful wording. It became a best-seller soon after its publication. The company's customer base is very large, and basically every household of these people has a collection. Because the price is not high and it is a tool book, piracy is rare.
The Weizhou Food and Drug Administration is occupied by people from the Department of Medicine, Department of Biology, and Department of Genetics. There are not many conflicts of interest, but academic conflicts occur from time to time. There are frequent quarrels in this unit, sometimes on TV, mainly about nutrition and genetically modified topics.
After the agricultural group gsaa was listed, it merged with many farms in Australia and quickly became the world's largest agricultural company. Its affiliated Agricultural Research Institute is engaged in engineering research. The Department of Biology is responsible for cutting-edge and theoretical research. In addition to receiving R&D orders from GSAA, it also has its own affiliated science and technology park. It is either sold through the medical and health group wlhc or GSAA, and it is a pleasant life.
"Compared with the Department of Biology, which only occasionally makes a sound, GSAA has a great reputation, because food is the first priority for the people, and food safety is the first priority. GSAA takes these two points into consideration. It has operations all over the world, including Citigroup, and has a huge customer base. This group is mainly engaged in the production of "three products" green food and organic food, and sales are directly sold through counters in supermarkets of the logistics group, and franchise stores are not accepted.
During the production and processing of organic food, it is absolutely prohibited to use synthetic substances such as pesticides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, etc., and the use of genetic engineering technology is not allowed. It is the most demanding among the "three products". In Weizhou, organic food is the mainstream, and high-standard green food is only a supplement.
Although the investment in scientific agriculture is large, the profit is not low. As for the high technology required, it is not a problem for the company at all. The most important thing here is technology. In terms of pest control, a wide variety of biological pesticides are mainly used, including unorthodox insect-resistant plants, common parasitic natural enemies, and physical control methods.
The staple food of Weizhou is rice, flour, potatoes,The breeding industry of beef, mutton and fish is developed, and no genetically modified food can be sold on the market. There are complete detection instruments for pesticide residues, conventional physical and chemical, microbial, nutritional components and genetically modified components. Hybrid rice has no market in Weizhou because it doesn¡¯t taste good. Thai fragrant rice is the mainstream, half self-produced and half imported. The quality of fragrant rice produced in Weizhou is even higher than that of the place of origin.
Correspondingly, United Technologies' genetic research level is among the best in the industry. Today, when molecular agriculture is so popular, this weird behavior is ridiculed as "god worship" by peers. The reason is probably that the company's core scientists often forget to do so. The "god" in the mouth is the law of nature.
Although the Department of Genetics, Department of Biology and Department of Medicine, which are related to food safety, are not in harmony, they cooperate in a tacit understanding in the general direction, and they all share knowledge in research on genetic medicines and genetic virus production and defense. A powerful and large technical group's boycott of genetically modified foods has undoubtedly increased the suspicion of ordinary people, and they often take issue with Weizhou.
Molecular agriculture has many advantages, but also many troubles, such as unknown toxicity, high incidence of allergies, nutritional problems, drug resistance, threats to the environment, etc. These are all facts. As molecular agriculture becomes more and more perfect, these problems are gradually emerging.
Interest groups involved in genetically modified agricultural products are very powerful, and Sun Guobao had to express his position on behalf of the company, "Molecular agriculture is the future trend, and genetic modification may not be harmful. We have reservations. We just think it needs time to verify, and we are not opposed to genetic modification."
The company told the truth, which reduced the pressure. However, the knowledge level of ordinary people determines that it is impossible for them to accept arguments based on scientific perspectives, and the promotion of molecular agriculture is greatly affected.
The current route taken by the Department of Medicine is systemic medicine, which draws on many concepts of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine has been carried forward in Australia. The prevalence of the concept of systems medicine means that the Ministry of Medicine has reservations about the reliability of genetically modified foods.
The technologies related to agricultural products are very complex, but the basic concepts are there. Common grafting, hybridization and transgenics are actually easy to understand. When it comes to biological taxonomy, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species are increasingly being used. The closer the biological characteristics are. Grafting is a type of artificial asexual reproduction of plants and does not involve the recombination and change of genetic material.
Hybridization uses artificial sexual reproduction to select and breed new genotypes from two individuals with different genotypes through chromosomal gene recombination. It is a genetic recombination in a broad sense and occurs as far away as between genera, such as hybrid rice. Lions of the genus Leopard and ligers, the offspring of tigers, are both horses, the genus of Equus, and mules, the offspring of donkeys. Inbreeding hybrids can produce fertile offspring, and a small number of hybrid rice have this characteristic. However, due to commercial interests, fertile hybrid rice is no longer available on the market. Distant crosses generally do not produce fertile offspring, such as ligers and mules.
As for transgenics, it introduces artificially isolated and modified genes into the genome of an organism. Due to the expression of the introduced gene, it causes heritable modification of the traits of the organism. It is theoretically more accurate and has nothing wrong with it.
Academically speaking, transgenics and hybridization both fall within the scope of genetic engineering, but according to biological taxonomy, there are essential differences, and they cannot be considered the same thing just because their means are similar.
The Department of Genetics has a clear classification of its research fields. Different from mainstream standards, there is no distinction between hybridization and transgenics. There are three main types: the first, genetic recombination that can produce fertile offspring; the second, genes that cannot produce fertile offspring. Recombination; the third type, modification, replacement, inhibition and activation of the same type of genes.
The first type of genetic recombination has the highest safety level. All categories below it have been proven harmless by medical experiments, minimizing unmeasured parameters and conducting artificial control based on natural laws.
The second type of genetic recombination has the second highest safety level and is divided into two categories by the company's scientists.
The first category is distant hybrids that cannot produce offspring, and are listed as the scope that needs to be tested. Hybrid rice is not tasty. The Department of Biology mainly collects seeds of wild rice and conventional rice. Training of new fertile varieties and gene replacement are all within the scope of research. Although distant hybrid rice has been proven not to affect the fertility of those who eat it, the company has no interest in eating this grain. Efficient scientific and technological agriculture ensures an adequate supply of agricultural products with better taste and nutrition.
The second category belongs to pure genetic modification technology, which disrupts biological taxonomy. Organisms modified by genetic modification are called gmo. Biochemical beasts belong to the GMO category, but in the company's classification, only those involving food are called GMO, and biochemical beasts are BCO. Nature's long-selected classifications become a mess here, and uncontrollable parameters increase significantly. Someone named this technique "promiscuity", which is very vivid.
God is not that easy to do. No matter how wonderfully transgenic technology is promoted, there is no such thing as systemic medicine.Until the mysteries of the human body are fully understood, its beauty is just an illusion, although it may become a reality.
The third type of gene recombination is mainly used for medical purposes and to control existing crops and ornamental animals and plants. It is a big source of wealth for the Department of Genetics. It has not entered the divine realm. The variables are very small and easy to verify. It is used in eugenics and eugenics projects, conventional plant improvement research, biochemical pandas, Genetic drugs, etc. all fall into this category.
Genetic research has both military and civilian uses. The genetic virus laboratory, human body modification laboratory, and biorobotics laboratory affiliated to the Institute of Biochemical Veterinary Medicine are mainly for military purposes and complement the laboratories of the Ministry of Medicine.
The Human Genome Project hgp aims to elucidate the sequence of 3 billion base pairs of the human genome, discover all human genes and clarify their locations on chromosomes, decipher all human genetic information, and enable humans to comprehensively understand themselves at the molecular level for the first time. Its goal is to accurately sequence the 3 billion base pairs of the human genome to ultimately figure out what proteins each gene makes and what it does.
The company¡¯s Human Genome Research Institute participated in this study, and Zaitsev was worried because the side effects of hgp are obvious, such as racially selective biological weapons, gene patent wars, genetic resource plunder wars, genes and personal privacy, etc.
These are not fantasy. Jiang Zhenzhe suspected that the mysterious virus that was popular four years ago was the work of an organization and was related to genetically modified food. It was considered a super compound poison. The reason he gave is simple. In addition to the traces found on the virus, the characteristic of mainly targeting low-income people is enough to explain the problem. The rapid development of robot technology has made the existence of some people redundant. Some extremists believe that the existence of these people is a burden to human society, and then want to achieve the purpose of purification through some covert means.
God has given mankind a wonderful body, which is both powerful and fragile, precise but not overly precise, loose within limits, with strong self-healing ability, and very strong resistance to chronic poisons based on biotechnology. Regardless of whether the promotion of genetically modified foods is driven by commercial interests or political conspiracy, early and imperfect genetically modified foods still cannot easily eliminate certain groups of people, so some people cannot bear it and take drastic measures.
As a genetic engineering expert and virologist, Jiang Zhenzhe will not talk nonsense, and there are many researchers who hold similar attitudes. There is no doubt about the company's comprehensive strength in the fields of viruses, poisons and genetic engineering. Any means involving these three aspects have been dismantled. There have been no major accidents in more than ten years since its establishment.
Four years ago, the virus first broke out in South America and quickly spread to North America, Asia and Africa. Within a month, the company¡¯s experts developed symptomatic drugs that can improve human immunity and introduced them to the market through human trials. This chaos lasted only two months before it was extinguished. The death toll was so small that people thought it was an ordinary virus and did not take it seriously.
The upper class has no idea. What they eat is high-quality non-GMO food. Many aristocratic schools claim to supply all organic food. There are many groups engaged in molecular agriculture, and the research is far more complete than before. Driven by complex interests, many products that have not been carefully verified are openly on the table, but they are not the daily staple food of members of the upper class.
"I hope there won't be any biological and chemical warfare. That would be a big trouble. It's easy to destroy but hard to build." Li Zhuang muttered.
Arthur took over, "Boss, I saw someone online saying that we are engaged in biological and chemical warfare in Africa, promoting our genetically modified corn, and threatening to sue us!"
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