"A new plant species? Soil Oxygen Grass? What a strange name."
"I read some of the research reports and papers. This new plant is reproductively isolated from other plants. Most of its genes were taken from other plants found in nature. The only new protein is the purification protein, which can absorb toxic substances in the soil and poisonous gases in the air."
"The purification protein is the most terrifying aspect of Soil Oxygen Grass. It is an entirely new protein that has never appeared in nature. Chen Mo edited the sequence of its gene, successfully created a protein never before found in nature, and applied it to an organism's genes. This is a means of Creating Life."
"Could this cause genetic pollution in nature? If pollution occurred, how terrible would the consequences be? Wouldn't this violate a genetic taboo?"
"If this counts as violating a taboo, then what about fruits and vegetables sent into space? Vegetable seeds sent into space use cosmic radiation to induce mutations, and those mutations are unpredictable. Chen Mo merely controlled the direction of plant mutations at the genetic level to benefit society. What taboo is there? Based on this one Soil Oxygen Grass alone, giving Chen Mo another Nobel Prize in Biology would not be excessive."
"Among the published papers and reports were more than twenty papers containing comprehensive and detailed research on the purification protein. The purification protein had no biological toxicity. It could be hydrolyzed into ordinary polypeptides within living organisms and would not accumulate. Current experiments also proved that Soil Oxygen Grass was reproductively isolated from other herbaceous plants and lacked the conditions for genetic transmission."
"Successfully editing an entirely new protein meant that humanity could possibly create life. We could create a bacterium—could a more advanced civilization create humans?"
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