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Chapter 367: Chapter 242: Applying for the Goldbach Conjecture Project_2

Then, am I qualified to be a PhD advisor?

If I were a graduate student at that time, my roommate would also be my advisor...

It sounds rather strange!

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When Zhao Yi was still bluffing around at school, his research on ’Norovirus Mutation through Staining Environment’ had rapidly permeated the field of microbiology worldwide.

Just like Li Renzhe said, many reports from abroad cover reproductions and comments on domestic research papers.

Many microbiology experts conducted staining experiments on noroviruses as soon as they saw the paper. Afterwards, they simply left the stained waste in place, waiting for possible mutations.

This is a surprising discovery, and it’s an incredibly important one as well.

Before this, mutations in viruses were uncontrollable, and scientists’ understanding of viral mutations was that they were ’random’.

Zhao Yi’s research has opened the door to virus mutation.

One week after the paper was published, microbial experts announced their research results. Microbiology laboratories’ Wei Shiqing and Bai Jianwu jointly released their experimental data on the mutation of the norovirus.

"After several dozen sets of calculations, we are confident that the probability of norovirus mutation within seven days under staining conditions is over ten percent."

"This is a surprisingly high ratio, indicating that virus mutations can, in certain conditions, be controlled."

"The trend of the collective mutation of the norovirus is consistent, becoming more contagious but less virulent."

"..."

This finding is an endorsement of Zhao Yi’s research, and the results have caused a considerable uproar.

Not all viruses mutate under staining conditions, only a certain part of them.

Wei Shiqing and Bai Jianwu’s research determined a number: seven days, ten percent.

"When ten percent of the viruses mutate, the contagion of the virus samples increases by nearly thirty percent, which means the contagiousness of the mutated virus has tripled."

"This is just a general estimate, more detailed measurements will follow, and perhaps the figures will be more astounding."

"We believe this is a significant beginning, it has essentially opened a door for virus mutation research."

"Starting with the norovirus, perhaps there are other viruses that will react to a staining environment, or maybe other chemical environments."

"But while researching virus mutations, we must maintain rigorous control over the experiments..."

Many in the medical field have already begun to call for caution.

All research is a double-edged sword. When used well, they can facilitate human development, but if used badly, they can cause terrible outcomes. For example, the famous chemist Nobel certainly could not have anticipated that the explosives he invented by accident would pose such a great threat to humanity.

Research on virus mutations is also horrifying, unchecked research could potentially trigger a massive viral calamity for humankind.

Any disasters in history caused by a virus were extremely frightening.

When Zhao Yi’s paper was disseminated, many people began to call for the strictest supervision over research on virus mutations.

Most microbiologists just laughed it off.

Though the discovery of norovirus mutations has opened a door for virus mutation research, attempting to pursue research on virus mutations is still extremely difficult. The norovirus mutation alone has many aspects worth exploring.

For instance, genes.

Exactly which genes do norovirus mutations affect?

Why are these genes changing?

What exactly do these changes have to do with the staining environment?

And so on.

Human understanding of genes is still very limited. Using virus mutations to create a virus may be possible, but trying to make a controllable virus is almost impossible.

It’s like someone trying to mix poison without understanding the principles. They just throw a bunch of substances together.

A poison concocted in this way is unlikely to be more toxic than existing natural poisons, such as snake venom. In most cases, it’s wasted effort.

Zhao Yi didn’t pay attention to what happened next and continued to enjoy his college life. His only goal was to earn coins. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

There are less than two hundred Study Coins left to obtain the next ability, and he was very excited about it.

But when he really started grinding for coins, Zhao Yi realized how difficult it was. Most of the Study Coins he’d earned in the past were through research results, influence, or tasks. The coins he earned grinding were just a small portion.

To grind two hundred Study Coins, it would almost take a week.

And this is if he maxes out every day.

It’s tough!

When another calculus class started, Zhao Yi decided to grind for ’Rest Coin’ and started pondering on the desk.

He continued thinking about prime numbers, about the Goldbach Conjecture.

Thinking about this issue really aids with sleep, sometimes when the logical relationship in his brain was thinking, his brain would become hazy.

But he was even more alert today.

Zhao Yi had considered the Goldbach Conjecture from the perspective of the Sieve method. The Sieve method takes the first prime number as the base and eliminates all subsequent numbers that are multiples of it.

The next number that has not been crossed out is a prime number.

Then take this prime number as the base, and eliminate the multiples of the subsequent prime numbers. Then the next number that hasn’t been crossed out is the third prime number.