Chapter 504 Theoretical Research

To be more specific, it is the entry into the ‘hibernation state’, the long-term maintenance of the ‘hibernation state’, and the awakening of the hibernating personnel.

Each of the three steps that need to be completed by the human hibernation project has quite a lot of problems to be solved.

Of course, these three steps are not isolated, but in fact they are integrated.

However, in the study of this issue, Mo Dao has some advantages in addition to his own thinking ability and research ability.

In the previous research on the aging mechanism and the limit of human life span,

Mo Dao’s biggest gain is actually a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the various mechanisms in the human system.

Relying on the memory and thinking ability that has been continuously enhanced over the generations,

Mo Dao can almost emerge in his mind an image of a human system in which each part goes deep into the underlying mechanism and operates simultaneously.

This is the basis for further research on the human hibernation project at this moment.

At the same time, it is also the reason why Mo Dao has already vaguely felt that the road to breaking through the limit of life span is not feasible,

and still tried to study in this regard.

The study of the aging mechanism, the operation of the human body, the study of the underlying mechanism at the genetic level,

whether it is to break through the limit of life span or to achieve human hibernation at this moment, it is inevitable.

If you want to press the pause button on the human body, you naturally need to have a comprehensive understanding of the human body's operating mechanism.

In addition,

in the past life of the Qiusuo Institute,

the relevant research team in the Qiusuo Institute has made some progress in this field of research,

compared to this era.

Although the realization of the human hibernation plan is still a long way off, and the research direction may not even be correct,

although Mo Dao did not participate in the relevant research in the field of life sciences in that life, and only knew some small results reported occasionally about the relevant research in that life.

But for Mo Dao, this is enough.

It is enough to provide a starting basis for the research in this life, even if the research direction in that life is wrong, it can still provide a lot of information.

...

April 39.

Mo Dao formally applied for the research project of "human hibernation".

Although the difficulty of this project, the inevitable large scale of the research team, and the inevitable long research time can almost be reflected in the title of the research project,

but the above can agree with Mo Dao's research on the aging mechanism and life limit before,

naturally it is impossible not to agree with the human hibernation research project.

Of course, whether the higher-ups agree or not actually has little impact on Mo Dao. The biggest need for others to apply for projects is funding, but Mo Dao obviously doesn't need that much.

In May, an old leader from the higher-ups of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences,

in the name of visiting Capital University, went to the School of Life Sciences and had a face-to-face exchange with Mo Dao about this research project.

"... Academician Mo seems to be very interested in this kind of project?"

In the eyes of those in the know, Mo Dao had just denied the possibility of achieving a breakthrough in the human body's life span,

and then immediately started the human hibernation project,

like diving into the pit of extending the human life span.

It makes people wonder whether it is good or bad.

After the leader joked with Mo Dao, he smiled and restrained his smile,

and then asked Mo Dao more formally,

"Academician Mo, do you think that the human hibernation project is really necessary?"

In this life, Mo Dao, at this moment, is not the first person in the scientific research community, but he is bound to be the first person in the field of biological research and life sciences.

In many cases, related scientific research matters must refer to Mo Dao's opinions.

At this moment, this sentence is actually asking Mo Dao's thoughts.

"... The research project on human hibernation is first of all out of my personal interest."

Research on life extension is somewhat special to Mo Dao.

He is probably the person in the world who cares least about whether he can live forever, because he has plenty of time.

But at the same time, he does need to break through the life limit of one life.

Mo Dao's expression is still calm, and he did not hide his thoughts in this regard.

"In addition, from a more macro perspective, the human hibernation project or other similar projects are also a step we must take."

"After a long time, with the accumulation of past knowledge and the inevitable trend of civilization expanding outward, extending the time that individuals have in civilization is an inevitable need."

Mo Dao's speech is very empty.

But the old leader who came, or the old leader who made this trip specifically, is actually to listen to Mo Dao's talk about this aspect.

"How long do you think it will take for us to have this need, Academician Mo?"

"Maybe a few hundred years, maybe a few thousand years. Or maybe even longer."

"Then Academician Mo, your project can be said to benefit future generations."

The old leader said with a smile.

The relative meaning of this sentence is that the human hibernation research project is useless for people of this era.

But this does not mean that the old leader rejected Mo Dao's research project.

If China is just a small country,

there is no need to consider things hundreds of years later,

but China is a big country.

At this moment, it has been a few years since China's total economic output exceeded that of the United States.

For China,

some plans and projects may not see any benefits now,

but in the future, they must be considered.

In the end,

After this exchange between the old leader and Mo Dao, a few days later.

The human hibernation research project was approved,

and a large amount of research funds and research resources were allocated to the human hibernation research project.

At the same time, the green light was given to the formation of the entire research team.

Under official coordination, a large number of university research teams and laboratories that had previously cooperated with Mo Dao's laboratory, as well as several life science and biological research institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,

have joined the research on the human hibernation project.

There is no demarcation for the research period of the human hibernation project,

which expresses full trust in Mo Dao, a leader in the field of life sciences.

Of course, in fact, the fact that this project was approved and funds were allocated was already due to trust in Mo Dao.

…

The existence of the human hibernation research project is not as confidential as the previous human lifespan research.

The main reason is that although this research project is equally large, its sensitivity is still not as high as that of the human lifespan research.

In the field of life sciences in academia, it is basically semi-public.

Outside the academia, in the public, it is not concealed, but at the same time, there is no special report.

Therefore, in the public, the establishment of the human hibernation project did not immediately cause much reaction.

Only in a small circle, some people occasionally discussed it.

…

June.

Under official coordination and Mo Dao's leadership, the participating laboratories, research teams, and cooperative units in the human hibernation project completed the integration.

The research of the human hibernation project began to get on the right track.

The operation mode of the entire research project is basically similar to the previous one.

Mo Dao has a grasp of the overall situation. All laboratories and research teams conduct research and experiments on some specific issues according to Mo Dao's requirements.

At the beginning of the project,

Mo Dao did not initiate the human hibernation project itself.

Instead, he asked all cooperative units, laboratories, and research teams to

continue to do something that had been going on for a long time before,

collecting more information about the human body, various systems, and underlying mechanisms, from the cellular level to the genetic level.

The information he has now is still not enough, he needs more.