Chapter 581 Jiang's Biotechnology Project (Part 2)
In order to reduce the impact of fluctuations in the international soybean market on domestic enterprises, the state also allows some domestic enterprises to participate in futures trading in the Chicago futures trading market, but according to the "Regulations on the Management of Overseas Futures Hedging Business of State-owned Enterprises" promulgated on May 24, 2001, only a few companies including COFCO Group are qualified to participate in the agricultural products, and the mobilization funds are limited, so they are not as familiar with the rules of the game as international futures speculators.
Various reasons have caused an embarrassing situation like the iron ore transactions in the first place: the import volume is huge, but because everyone is in charge of their own affairs, they cannot control the pricing power.
At the beginning, Jiang Feng won a lot of mines and established Jiang's Mining through his foreign layout, which to a certain extent reversed the embarrassing situation of domestic iron ore. Now, Jiang Feng also plans to copy the soybean matters, but he put the layout in China.
As the GMO project with the largest application volume in the future and the greatest impact on people's daily lives, Jiang Feng asked Yang Shimin to be patient and invest enough money in the soybean GMO project. Once this project can make substantial progress, it will not be so easy for foreign GMO soybeans to enter the Chinese market again.
At least Jiang Feng’s idea is very clear. Now that the government has relaxed restrictions on genetically modified foods, and domestic companies do not have the right to set prices, it is better to make money by asking foreigners to make money. Anyway, it is all about spending money and not to go to outsiders’ fields. At least, I will conduct research here very seriously so that I will not maliciously add any genetic fragments that cannot be determined in the seeds.
Jiang Feng is worried about the genetic technology of Americans. I heard that they are developing genetic viruses against yellow people, so I have to be careful about this.
"Gene weapon?" Xiang Jin felt a little funny after hearing this, "Isn't this the plot in the novel?"
"This is hard to say." Jiang Feng shook his head and said.
There are still some differences between genetic weapons and traditional bacterial weapons or virus weapons. The main reason is that the technology used has completely changed.
From the beginning of the 20th century, shortly after the birth of bacterial theory, people began bacterial warfare experiments and began to engage in bacterial warfare in World War II. Shortly after the nuclear cracking became confirmed, it was immediately used for nuclear weapons experiments, and the world's first bomb was exploded in 1945. After that, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan became the only two cities in human history to have been hit by nuclear strikes. Later, the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA marks the peak of modern science.
With the continuous application of genetic engineering technology in the military field, some countries ignore the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons. They conduct infectious diseases and microbial research under the name of vaccine research, and have invested a lot of funds and manpower to develop more lethal genetic weapons on the basis of biological weapons.
Although the United Nations adopted the Treaty on Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteria (Biologic) and Toxin Weapons and Destruction of Such Weapons in 1971, more than 100 countries have joined the Convention. However, the supervision and verification mechanism lacked from the beginning, from 1960 to the present. A total of 120 well-documented bioterrorist incidents have occurred around the world, of which 66 have used biological genes to directly commit premeditated murders.
Genetic weapons aim at specific races, study the genetic characteristics of different races and populations, cloning a certain bacteria or virus, leading to the demise of a specific race or population. It uses genetic engineering technology, especially recombinant DNA technology to change the genetic material of non-pathogenic microorganisms.
A DNA molecule contains multiple genes. After studying the DNA and genetic codes of a specific race, find out a certain antigen of a specific race population and destroy it. It creates a blood disease that may not be detected for many years. It affects the birth rate and infant survival rate of a certain race, or increases the prevalence of a race until it reduces the population of an entire race.
Genetic weapons can be deployed with artificial artillery, warships, aircraft, missiles or balloons. Since bacteria can reproduce in large quantities and spread naturally under appropriate conditions, genetically modified bacteria or microorganisms can be placed on the enemy's front lines, rears, rivers, lakes, cities and traffic fortresses to achieve the effect of killing people without a knife.
As an expert in this regard, Yang Shimin introduced to several girls: "Due to the genetic composition of different races and populations, they are prone to infection with certain diseases. Changing genes can control the functional structure of biological traits. According to the needs of the operation, genes can be recombined at will, and genes that can fight against ordinary vaccines or drugs can be used in some pathogenic bacteria or viruses to produce pathogenic bacteria that are significantly resistant to drug resistance, or to connect pathogenic genes in some microorganisms that are not originally pathogenic to create new biological agents, which are contagious in attacking similar species with specific hereditary characteristics. Even if it is discovered, it is difficult to treat because outsiders cannot decipher the genetic code of pathogenic bacteria. Genes that damage human intelligence can also be moved into some bacteria. When people of a specific race are infected with this kind of celery, they will lose their normal intelligence. There are currently more than 70 biological agents in the world, and no country can guarantee that it will not spread or lose it."
"Gene weapons are threatening, sudden, concealed, diverse, easy to use and low cost. In the 1980s, scientists in the former Soviet Union developed a mutant bubonic plague virus that cannot be treated. The United States also used the biocatalytic effect of DNA in cells to separate DNA from one virus, and then combine it with DNA from another virus to splice it into a highly toxic thermal toxin. Twenty grams of thermal toxin can cause the world's six billion people to die, and its power is dozens of times greater than that of nuclear bombs."
In order to paralyze a certain country's economy, terrorists can isolate specific toxins and kill crops or poultry. If biological bacterial virus infection occurs in large cities with dense populations, it will not only cause poisoning and harm people, livestock, and crops, but will also cause long-term trauma to people and cause mental fear on a large scale in society. In cities, the degree of damage will be far greater than that of chemical or nuclear explosions. For example, if a plane is sown over Washington, one hundred kilograms of anthrax bacteria powder can cause one to three million deaths.
Genetic weapons can attack targets such as populations, animals, plants, crops, food, water sources, buildings, etc. Biological bacterial preparations can be sprayed on a large scale by aircraft, or discarded at will, and put into use at any time. The ways for attackers to be infected with viruses are also diverse. Among the infected people, different generations of infected people coexist.
Because the incubation period of biological bacterial viruses is long and the clinical symptoms of each person are different, it will bring great difficulties to diagnosis and treatment. Genetic terrorist attacks do not require complex professional packaging and related equipment and devices, which can be freeze-dried or made into capsules, or placed in bottles and carried with you. Moreover, since the infected body of biological bacterial viruses did not occur at the time, terrorists are very likely to evacuate.
Since the attack of genetic weapons does not require various material preparations in advance, it has irrelevance in time and space, which often catches people off guard. Therefore, genetic weapons can change the nature and war pattern of post-information era wars and have a strong psychological deterrent effect on the enemy.
Biological bacterial preparations can cause large-scale primary infection areas and secondary and secondary reinfection areas, and bacterial infection areas are very easy to spread. The implementation of blockades on infected areas requires the cooperation of the whole society, and the workload is far beyond ordinary people's imagination.
If a region has one-tenth of the area and people infected with biological bacteria and viruses, the consequences will be unimaginable. Even if the health and medical conditions and facilities in this region are advanced and sufficient, they will completely lose their treatment and medical capabilities. The treatment and medical treatment of infected objects and infected people will be a global problem, and it will inevitably cause global fear.
"It's so scary!" Xiang Jin felt a little chilled all over and said, huddling beside Jiang Feng.
"Actually, there is no need to worry too much." Jiang Feng patted Xiang Jin's little head and said to her with a smile, "Although genetic weapons are indeed very powerful, unless everyone can't survive and want to die together, no one dares to release this monster. After all, this is uncontrollable. Unless modern technology can accurately grasp the most critical of genetic technology, and can modify it at will."
What Jiang Feng said is indeed the truth. Until now, humans are still in a state of blind exploring their own elephants. Many key problems are still confused, just like a problem with a neural source system, which is difficult to solve, not to mention how complex the brain is. As for gene exploration, it is even more complicated. Even if it can affect the shape of certain gene fragments, it may not be possible to ensure that the finished products made through this means can act according to their own design intentions.
"Do you have research on this aspect?" Li Xiumin suddenly asked a very sensitive question.
Jiang Feng immediately denied: "How is that possible?"
However, after looking at Li Xiumin's disbelief, he whispered: "Of course, we are also studying some methods that can be improved for the genetic defects of certain colored or colorless people. This genetic weapon is completely unrelated. We want to find ways to completely solve the problems of birth, old age, sickness and death through the study of human genes. Our purpose is noble and incomparable to those crazy terrorists."
Li Xiumin thought that since they can find genetic defects, filling in defects or conducting effective attacks on defects is just a matter of the operator's thoughts. Almost all research institutions are proclaiming their justice, but in fact, it is hard to say what they are doing.
Chapter completed!