Silicon Valley

The mammoth is a mammoth that lived in the Paleozoic era and is a behemoth with an average height of more than 4 meters. The previous animated film "Ice Age" had mammoths, and the most impressive thing was its long mammoth horns, at least one or two meters long.

Henry was slightly surprised to hear that they were going to revive the mammoth; secondly, from a technical point of view, the project was feasible! The key to resurrecting the mammoth is to get a complete set of DNA. But as we all know, DNA has a half-life. According to calculations, it decays roughly every 521 years, and with each decay, half of the chemical bonds between DNA are broken. It may have been only 1.5 million years before these bonds were broken completely unreadable.

Mammoths survived from 4.8 million years to 4,000 years ago, so it is very possible to obtain relatively complete mammoth DNA! Then using cloning technology, it is possible to resurrect the mammoth!

In fact, compared to mammoths, people are more keen to resurrect the former overlords of the earth-dinosaurs. But the tragedy is that the dinosaurs could have been extinct 65 million years ago, and the DNA was damaged so badly that they could only get very few genes. So, resurrecting dinosaurs is almost impossible. Of course, nothing can be covered in a coffin. The half-life of NDA is affected by various environments. Perhaps in some extreme environments, the half-life of DNA is prolonged, and people may obtain a more complete genome from it.

So far, people have obtained a lot of genes from dinosaur fossils. Although they are far from complete dinosaur genes, their effects are not small. For example, by combining the genes of various dinosaurs with other animals, completely new dinosaur species can be created. There are many close relatives of dinosaurs on the earth. If these animals are selected, the success rate of the experiment will be further improved!

The Gene Umbrella Company has no plans to revive animals for the time being. Henry believes that as long as the technology is excellent and the animal's DNA is possessed, then resurrecting animals is just a matter of pediatrics. Gene Umbrella has been working on sequencing the human genome, and once the project is complete, it will then sequence the genomes of all plants and animals in the world.

Once you have mastered the genome sequences of all species in the world, you will have an incomparably huge wealth, which is worth more than gold and silver!

As biological gene technology becomes more and more powerful, it becomes possible to artificially synthesize genes and create new species. Actually, it's not difficult. After the 21st century in the previous life, the research team of American scientist Craig Venter announced that they had created the world's first "artificial gene".

Artificial genes are arranged and combined by chemical methods to form new genomes, and finally "assemble" into various organisms. And cloning just uses existing genetic information to "copy" life, which is completely different from artificial genes! The main direction of Gene Umbrella's research is to go directly to artificial genes.

If all the powerful genes on earth were combined, what kind of life would be created? Will it have the eyes of an eagle, the ears of a wolf, the speed of a leopard, and the strength of a bear like the American cartoon "Sheriff Bresta"? Or more powerful than that...

If the "artificial gene" technology is used to create a brand new human gene, does it mean that human beings can create a biologically parentless human, that is, a complete artificial human and a genetically modified customized human?

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At this time, Hawking interrupted Henry's thoughts and asked, "Mr. Williams, your decision is..."

Henry raised his head and smiled at him, "Of course there is no problem. If they can really revive the mammoth, then I can build a mammoth park, and I will be soft on the admission fee, haha..."

"Mr. Williams, they are near my house now, would you like to meet them?"

"It's near your house? Well, you can call them over now!" Henry said.

Hawking nodded, looking at his wife, Elaine took out the phone from the black handbag and made a call.

In less than a minute, there was a knock on the door, and two men came to Hawking's house. Wearing a suit and glasses is Smali, the other bearded is the Russian expert Lazarev. The two greeted the Hawkings briefly, and then looked at Henry suspiciously.

Hawking's wife Elaine smiled and introduced the two of them: "This is Mr. Williams, and the lady next to me is Princess Ulysses!"

When the two heard this, they were shocked and quickly greeted Henry and Princess Ulysses, but their eyes were still full of doubts, because Henry's appearance was very different from what they knew.

Henry smiled and explained: "After the assassination and bombing, my face was severely burned. After I healed, my appearance changed... Well, let's not talk about that. I heard Mr. Hawking say, are you planning to resurrect the mammoth?"

"Yes!" Smalley nodded. "Although the mammoth is an extinct animal, the extinction time is not far from us. It is entirely possible for us to find a complete set of DNA to revive this prehistoric beast!"

Henry nodded, "Well, it sounds pretty good. Well, I'll invest you $20 million as activity funds, but after the mammoth is resurrected, I'm asking for more than 70% of the commercialized income!"

Smalley and Lazarev looked at each other and nodded, "No problem, Mr. Williams, we agree to your terms!"

"Well, bring the contract to the UK branch of Gene Umbrella tomorrow, and they will find you to sign the contract."

"Okay!" Smalley responded.

Henry nodded, then said goodbye to everyone, and returned to Buckingham Palace with Princess Ulysses.

The next morning, Smalley signed a contract with Gene Umbrella, and the news soon caused a stir at Cambridge University.

The fact that Smalley wants to revive the mammoth is shocking news at Cambridge University, but no one is willing to invest in this "moon in the mirror" project. The risk is too great. What if the money goes to waste? As a result, the project has been shelved. But now, if there are investors willing to give money, naturally the plan to resurrect the mammoth can be started! When I thought that the prehistoric beast like the mammoth might appear alive in front of everyone, my blood boiled.

This incident quickly attracted the attention of the global media, and even the investors behind him were dug up. As soon as the matter reached Henry, the fire burned even more vigorously. The more the media hype it, the more mysterious it is, as if it won't take long for the mammoth to come back to life...

A week later, Smalley and Lazarev joined a 20-person expedition to find the mammoth carcass. On the same day, Henry took them on a ship, and the destination was to go to northern Siberia, Russia, and then to Alaska, the United States... Only in the icy permafrost can a relatively complete mammoth body be found.

Not long after, the ship made a "roaring" sound and drifted away...

(To be continued ~^~)