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When mentioning cloning technology, Xu You couldn't help frowning slightly.

This direction can indeed solve related problems, even organ transplantation can also be solved.

However, there is a very big drawback in cloning technology.

"Wen Kun, if you want to use human cloning to help treat these diseases, the biggest problem is ethics, right?"

With the current technology of human beings, it is actually possible to realize the cloning of the human body.

There may even be some laboratories in the world that have secretly completed human cloning experiments, but they have not announced it to the public.

After all, human beings are different from other creatures. If human cloning really occurs, it will indeed face various problems.

Should clones have the same status as humans? And is it possible to clone oneself and use cloned human beings to help oneself treat diseases?

These various issues clearly require the establishment of a detailed set of criteria.

"Of course, ethics is indeed a very important issue. We definitely can't directly use human clones for transplantation, but only clone certain parts of organs, and then transplant them into the original owner. The cloning of this kind of organs, or acceptable to the general public."

Xu You also nodded when he heard the words. Just cloning organs is indeed not a complete life.

Therapeutic cloning is generally allowed in all countries in the world, because as long as the purpose of cloning is not to cultivate embryos into a complete person, but only to cultivate some organs, it will not involve various ethical issues.

At this time, Xu You was still a little curious about Luo Wenkun's original intention, so he tried to ask:

"Wen Kun, why did you first think of the direction of bone regeneration?"

According to ordinary people's thinking, perhaps the direction of conquering cancer and AIDS is the more popular direction.

Luo Wenkun paused a little when he heard the words, and replied with a heavy expression:

"Actually, my father broke a leg in a car accident in the early years. Although he was fitted with the best prosthetics, he still couldn't walk as flexibly as ordinary people. So let my father recover and have complete limbs like ordinary people. It has always been a long-cherished wish of mine.”

After listening to Luo Wenkun's narration, Xu You can also feel the same.

If the same thing happened to him, Xu You would definitely be more persistent than Luo Wenkun, and would be determined to solve the problem of rebirth of severed limbs.

After sending Luo Wenkun away, Xu You brought Cui Ying over.

"Teacher Cui, please help me find some information related to stem cells and cloning technology. As before, the more and more detailed the better."

"Okay, Teacher Xu."

Although Cui Ying was a little surprised by Xu You's sudden move, she still did not ask any reason, and obeyed obediently.

In front of Luo Wenkun, Xu You did not tell Luo Wenkun that he wanted to help Luo Wenkun with related research.

After all, the fields related to biology and medicine are not Xu You's research direction. It is not easy to start research from scratch.

However, Xu You is still full of confidence in this, because in many fields, Xu You has made great achievements from scratch.

Including Wang Xiangwu's artificial heart, Xu You relied on his strong learning ability and creativity to complete an achievement.

Xu You believed that he had this ability.

Cui Ying's efficiency was very high, and she quickly helped Xu You find a large number of relevant materials and sent them to Xu You's office.

"Mr. Xu, the first batch of related materials will be delivered soon. You can take a look at the electronic version first. There are too many materials in the paper version. I have already arranged for someone to help deliver them. It shouldn't be too long. gone."

"Okay, Mr. Cui, I'm sorry to trouble you, you can go to work first."

Soon, the people Cui Ying was looking for sent batch after batch of materials to Xu You's office.

There are really a lot of these materials, almost filling up Xu You's desk.

Seeing the mountains of materials in the office, Xu You felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.

This feeling reminds me of Xu You's pleasure of eating all kinds of learning materials when he was in school.

Although the current Xu You is already a top scientist in the world, from outsiders, it seems that he doesn't need to study at all.

But Xu You knew that in the face of the truth, Xu You had only learned a little bit, and the road to learning was still very far away.

After turning on the deep learning state, Xu You once again felt the joy of swimming in the ocean of knowledge.

In fact, Xu You's foundation in the field of biology is not bad. During his undergraduate studies, Xu You also studied several biology-related knowledge, and he has a very solid grasp of many foundations.

In the state of deep learning, Xu You read all the materials at hand in just a few hours.

Xu You also has some ideas about solving the problem of regeneration of severed limbs.

"In nature, as a whole, it shows that as the level of organisms increases, the ability to regenerate becomes weaker and weaker. Salamander-like organisms can achieve complete regeneration after missing limbs. The same phenomenon occurs in Among mammals, it is almost completely unseen." Xu You thought.

In mammals, only partial bone regeneration of some fingertips is often achieved.

However, this is not without exceptions.

Antler, for example, is a special case.

Even adult deer, after the antler falls off, can still achieve the regrowth of the antler.

The reason is that there is a special stem cell in the horn-stalk periosteum at the base of the velvet antler, which can completely regenerate the velvet antler.

According to the same idea, let the human body produce similar stem cells, theoretically, there is hope to achieve the regeneration of severed limbs.

Next, Xu You tried to use the recently acquired quantum simulation skills to simulate various activities of human stem cells.

But soon, Xu You discovered that the skills of quantum simulation are not suitable for simulation at the cell level.

"From the most basic quantum to forming a complete cell, this is a huge project in itself." Xu You sighed.

Cells may sound small, but compared to the various elementary particles in the microscopic world, they can be called giants.

With current human technology, it is still impossible to create a complete cell from the most basic particles.

Even Xu You didn't have a similar ability.

"It seems that if you want to simulate at the level of cells, quantum simulation skills are not a good choice."

Although quantum simulation skills are an enhanced version of brain simulation skills, they are not applicable to all situations.