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The ten experimental rats in Han Meng's group performed exceptionally well in the T-maze. Han Meng would continue studying his little partners.

The five researchers compiled the raw data from their rats and handed it to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi used an interdisciplinary approach combining science and engineering with biology to analyze the raw data in depth.

After Du Yuan's group modified the SHANK3 gene, all of their rats died of intracranial hemorrhaging within a short time.

Why had Du Yuan's editing plan caused the rats to suffer intracranial hemorrhages?

Shen Qi couldn't figure that out either. He would need to continue investigating.

Cui Hualin and Tang Yaxing's editing plans had made their experimental rats unusually violent or withdrawn.

Shen Qi had worked out the likely cause.

Under Cui Hualin and Tang Yaxing's editing plans, modifying the SHANK3 gene had triggered new genetic mutations in the rats within a short time, causing irreversible damage to their nervous systems.

The three groups' experiments had failed.

From those failures, Shen Qi had distilled a single word: code.

But what was this code? Where was it? How could it be controlled?

Peeling back layer after layer, from the largest structures to the smallest, the cell nucleus contained chromosomes, which were made up of DNA and histones.

DNA was initially believed to be a protein molecule, but it was later proven to be a deoxyribonucleic acid molecule.

A gene is a DNA sequence containing genetic information. Its code is that genetic information, which it expresses by transcribing and translating it into proteins.

An organism grows through continuous cell division. During mitosis, chromosomes are replicated.

At the same time, the code is passed on, and new codes may also emerge.

Shen Qi believed the codebook was hidden in the threadlike structure of chromosomes. The code