Eliminating spores had always been the most important indicator of various sterilization methods.
At present, the top company in this area was probably Germany's Oketaz Company. The disinfectant used in the vaccine production workshop environment was currently the world's most powerful disinfectant against spores. Its main ingredient was hydrogen peroxide silver ions.
After the X-0172 bacteria were discovered, the Moon Palace imported a batch of this type of disinfectant. However, even though this was used to disinfect Starlight or the space cabin, it definitely wouldn't work on humans.
Even though there were a large number of international experts on the Moon Palace, they still couldn't do anything about the spores in the human body.
So far, the research seemed to have reached a stalemate.
Lu Zhou felt like if he didn't do anything, even if he waited another 90 days, he wouldn't see a satisfactory result.
Lu Zhou took the metabolic extract from Professor Liu and didn't go back to the dean's office. Instead, he went straight to the third floor of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, which was his private laboratory.
Lu Zhou sat at his desk and placed the metabolic extract in a glass test tube on the corner of the table. He then pulled up the Moon Palace research paper from his computer and read it for a long time. He then sighed.
"Unfortunately, biology isn't my field of expertise. I can't help even if I want to.
"So I have to ask for help from a higher civilization?"
Lu Zhou looked at the reagent on the table and contemplated for a bit. He then closed his eyes.
"System, is there any way to kill the X-0172 bacterial spores?"
When he opened his eyes again, a pale blue light slowly passed through his field of vision and converged into a dialog box, presenting itself in front of him.
[Solution to eliminate the X-0172 bacteria parasitic in the human body]
[Required general points: 10,000]
"Ten thousand points?!"
When Lu Zhou saw this number, he nearly fell out of his chair.
If he remembered correctly, he only had 4,835 general points in total.
He couldn't help but start to doubt his life.
Are these bacteria that hard to deal with?
I've saved up so many mission points, but I don't even have enough to exchange for a solution …
Wait a minute …
However, at this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly thought of something and slapped his head.
"Oh my god, how could I forget?"
The price of the question was determined by the content of the question. If the question was about the solution to the entire problem, the required credits would naturally be extremely expensive. However, if the problem was broken down into many parts and only asked about the solution to a certain step, the required credits would be relatively less.
The current bottleneck faced by the international research team was not how to kill the X-0172 bacteria, but how to kill the spores of the X-0172 bacteria.
Therefore, he only needed to change his line of questioning …
"System, is there any way to stop the X-0172 bacteria from producing spores?"
The reason why X-0172 was so difficult to kill was that it would actively form spores to protect itself when it was attacked. Even physical means such as high temperature, high pressure, ultraviolet rays, and even radiation were difficult to kill, not to mention the antibodies produced by the organism itself.
Therefore, the key to eliminating the X-0172 bacteria was to prevent it from forming spores!
As long as he dispelled its active defense mechanism and found the antibodies, killing it would only be a matter of minutes.
After a short pause, a light blue dialog box appeared in Lu Zhou's field of vision.
This time, the system's price was much easier to accept.
[Method to prevent the X-0172 bacteria from producing spores.
[Required general points: 2,500.]
2,500 points.
This was equivalent to half of his general points.
Even though his heart ached a little, for the sake of the future of earth civilization, as well as the urgent mission in his mission panel, Lu Zhou clenched his teeth and clicked the exchange button.
"Exchange!"
Almost as soon as his index finger touched the option, a huge stream of information rushed into his brain like a tidal wave, washing every inch of his scalp.
Lu Zhou hadn't experienced this feeling of directly instilling knowledge into his brain in a long time.
It was like his brain was filled with memories that didn't belong to him.
After about half a minute, the strange feeling finally dissipated.
After sitting in his chair for almost half an hour, Lu Zhou finally digested the huge amount of information in his brain. When he opened his eyes again, there was a flash of enlightenment in his pupils.
"I see …"
Even though it was unrealistic for him to design this solution himself, with his level 6 biochemistry level and Nobel Prize-level chemistry level, it wasn't particularly difficult for him to understand the solution provided by the system.
Simply put, in order to prevent the X-0172 bacteria from actively dormant, the system mentioned a special pheromone in the design plan.
Under the effect of this pheromone, the X-0172 bacteria could be tricked into thinking that it was in a comfortable environment. This would prevent it from producing spores when it was attacked by antibodies.
"… As long as I inject the infected person with the pheromone before taking the antibodies, the X-0172 bacteria will give up resisting."
Lu Zhou felt like his brain was filled with knowledge. Without hesitation, he immediately turned on his laptop and looked at the reagent on the corner of the table. He then began to edit his thesis.
The preparation method for the pheromone that prevented the X-0172 bacteria from producing spores was already provided by the system, so there was no need for him to modify it.
As for the clinical effects of the X-0172 antibody and its metabolite extract, Lu Zhou cited several theses published by Professor Leslie and Professor Zhao Shuxuan.
Time quickly passed by.
The clock on the wall quickly went from morning to afternoon.
When Lu Zhou looked at the completed thesis, he couldn't help but smirk.
Speaking of which, it had been a long time since he was able to focus on a thesis.
Ever since he had more and more titles, there were fewer and fewer scientific research tasks that he had to personally complete. Most of the time, he was responsible for general direction planning instead of participating in specific research tasks.
"… Once this space race is over, I'll take a break."
Lu Zhou converted the thesis to pdf format. However, he was about to submit it when he suddenly remembered something.
Don't you think it's a bit weird for a mathematician like me to suddenly write such a high-level biology thesis?
Also, even though this research was written by him, he didn't do the research himself. Instead, he used the system general points to exchange for it.
If he won a Nobel Prize for this research, he would feel a little embarrassed.
After thinking for a bit, Lu Zhou suddenly had an idea. He pressed the backspace button and deleted the author's name. He then typed in the letter "Z".
"Perfect."
Lu Zhou looked at the thesis and smiled. He then opened the arXiv website and created a new account to upload.
It's too complicated to explain.
I might as well just upload it with a fake account.
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