Saiyans in the Marvel Universe

Professor Connors has recently been working on a serum that could cure cancer. Almost all animals in the world are at risk of developing cancer.

It’s just a rumor that sharks don’t get cancer. Although the tumor suppressor factors in cartilage make sharks less likely to get cancer, they can still get a fatal cancer called melanoma.

Elephants are also less likely to get cancer than ordinary animals because the TP53 gene in elephants can detect the integrity of DNA, repair genes that cause cancer cell mutations in a timely manner, and eliminate abnormal cells.

The only animal with zero cancer incidence is the naked mole rat, and so far, not a single case of cancer has been found in the naked mole rat.

The genome of the naked mole rat contains many tumor suppressor genes, such as the ARF gene, and lacks genes related to cancer development. The genome of the naked mole rat has a high copy number of genes responsible for repairing DNA, ribosomes that can produce proteins with almost no errors, and a large number of molecular chaperones that help other proteins fold correctly. These make the naked mole rat's genome and cellular state extremely stable.

Second, there is a hyaluronic acid polymer in naked mole rat cells. This molecule triggers a particularly powerful mechanism, "early contact inhibition," in which cells stop dividing once they "feel too crowded." Even if a cell becomes cancerous, this mechanism will be triggered by cell crowding after several rounds of division, and the cancer cells will not be able to proliferate wildly.

But Professor Connors is not sure that injecting naked mole rat genes can cure advanced cancer. What's more, he wasn't sure Wade would be able to accept it if he turned into a big naked mole rat.

After much hesitation, he decided to try to cut out genes related to suppressing cancer in three animals: sharks, elephants and naked mole rats, and splice them into Wade Wilson's body. If all goes well, Wade will not exhibit the characteristics of any of those three animals.

This is the original intention of the cross-species gene transplant project, and the lizard people are just a by-product of this project.

The research was back on track, and Professor Connors devoted almost all his energy to it, even the analysis of the culture medium formula was put on hold.

If the research can be successful, he will almost cure cancer, a terminal disease of mankind, from its root cause.

Because of countless experiences in formulating serums, Professor Connors has made rapid progress. He has already produced a serum combining three genes and injected it into mice for observation.

After experiencing the lessons of the lizard people, he was extremely cautious, fearing that the fusion of animal genes would cause mutations in the human body.

In the first experiment, more than 40 of the 50 white rats underwent mutations. Their bodies appeared with the characteristics of various sharks, elephants and naked mole rats. One of them was reborn with seven or eight limbs and more than a dozen pairs of eyes. , weird and inexplicable, making people feel chilly.

Even Professor Connors, a master of biology who had dissected countless samples, was disgusted by these mutated test subjects.

After destroying the failed products, he analyzed those test products that luckily did not mutate, deleted the genomes that might cause the original body to mutate, and improved the formula of the serum.

It's just that the workload of this project is huge, and he is only one person without assistants, so the progress is slow and takes a long time.

Professor Connors couldn't help but feel a little dizzy when he thought of the massive data stored in the computer. If he hadn't been injected with lizard serum, he might have been bald by now.

Suddenly someone rang the doorbell of the laboratory. Connors took a look and saw that it was Broly outside, so he hurriedly opened the door to the laboratory.

He felt a little uneasy. The two projects Broly assigned to him were stuck in a bottleneck and progress was slow.

Broly glanced around the laboratory and placed the cooler in his hand on the ground.

"This is a sample of the cancer cells in Wade's body."

When Professor Connors heard that he had obtained the sample, he immediately became interested. These cancer cells cut out from Wade's body can be placed in a culture medium to divide and multiply. When the formula of the serum is successfully debugged, it can be used to test whether it can effectively suppress cancer cells.

"These cancer cells are not ordinary."

Broly shook his head and described the abnormality inside Wade's body during the operation.

Professor Connors was shocked. He had read a lot of information and papers about cancer in the short period of time because of his research on serum, but this was the first time he had seen such a vicious cancer.

A curiosity arose in his heart, and he immediately opened the refrigerator, took out the frozen tumor inside, sliced ​​it, and placed it under the electron cryomicroscope stolen from the Osborne Group.

Under a microscope powerful enough to see the macromolecular structure, cancer cell samples are revealed in detail.

"How is it possible that there are still so many cancer cells that remain active?"

Professor Connors couldn't help but exclaimed. Under the microscope, about 60% to 70% of the cancer cells are still extremely active and are constantly squirming and devouring each other.

Cancer cells are very difficult to deal with in the human body. It can almost be said that wildfire cannot burn them out, and they will grow again with the spring breeze. But once exposed to the external environment, it will become very fragile and difficult to survive. He wanted to cultivate cancer cells, and he also wanted to grow the few parts of the tumors that might survive.

Broly raised his eyebrows and looked at the cut tumor in the refrigerator. The qi of this tumor was almost too weak to be detected, so he didn't know that most of the cancer cells inside were still alive all the way.

"interesting."

A large ball of energy immediately gathered in his hand, and the dazzling light almost caused Professor Connors to temporarily lose his vision.

Broly threw it casually, and the extremely powerful energy fell into the refrigerator and merged into the mass of cancer cells. He wanted to try to see what changes this mass of cancer cells could produce if it absorbed a large amount of Qi.

That big cloud of air didn't hurt or itch to Broly, but to the lump of cancer cells, it was like a mouse had entered the granary. They stopped devouring each other and began to swallow and inhale like crazy.

The entire tumor, which seemed to be completely dead, suddenly seemed to come to life, squirming and proliferating rapidly. Groups of hideous blisters filled with yellow-green pus and blood bulged on the surface of the tumor, which were connected to each other and expanded rapidly in just a few seconds. In a matter of minutes, the whole thing expanded three or four times, filling the entire refrigerator.

Countless tentacle-like tentacles were swinging continuously, and the refrigerator box was making a crackling sound.

Broly could sense that the Qi of the entire tumor was rising rapidly. In this short period of time, it was almost the same as that of an ordinary person, and it was still getting stronger.