Four days later.
Biomedical laboratory.
At that very moment.
The entire laboratory was filled with a tense yet faintly excited atmosphere. Lab members in their coats hurried back and forth.
Tang Yiqiu was naturally lively, but even Ren Yongcun, a somewhat shy and introverted first-year graduate student, had eyes that occasionally flashed with anticipation.
In fact, the reason these few lab hands were so worked up was simple:
After several days of working overtime, the interference-protein attractant Xu Yun had envisioned—one that could make male cockroaches attract one another for some intimate activity—had finally been successfully created!
The research project had now reached its final stage, which was also the most crucial:
They would combine the attractant with fourth-generation Imidacloprid using the binding formula Xu Yun had derived, then test whether it could act on MC38 cells.
MC38 cells were among the cells at the forefront of current biological research.
They came from the C57BL/6 mouse colon adenocarcinoma cell line, grew adherently, and had a fibroblast-like shape.
When MC38 cells were implanted into C57BL/6 mice or immunocompromised mice, they formed tumors and metastases. As a result, related techniques were often used to study the development and metastasis of colorectal cancer, and had become one of the common methods for validating the efficacy of cancer treatments.
However, these cells were not found only in mice. They were also abundant in cockroaches, dragonflies, and mantises.
They were a type of cell that had been extensively studied in the field of gene editing.
And that was precisely why Xu Yun had chosen this target:
First, it was associated with the cockroach's sodium ion channels and served as an important signaling site for sodium ions.
Second, there were many authoritative experimental results on the subject from across the biological sciences, so they would not