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Lin Chen's decision to choose this path was not a sudden whim.

Rather, it stemmed from his research during this period.

Previously, in order to completely resolve the potential flaws of the Lin's Therapy, Lin Chen had been researching DNA information interpretation.

The Lin's therapy is definitively proven to be unable to compensate for cancer genes already recorded in the patient's DNA.

If this cancer gene mutates in the future, giving rise to new mutated cancer cells, it may cause Lin's therapy to become ineffective.

Therefore, Lin Chen's plan is to eliminate cancer genes directly from the source by interpreting DNA.

In addition to obtaining known human DNA information data through his connections at Long University of Science and Technology in real life, he also attempted to interpret it in the dream laboratory.

In reality, deciphering DNA is an enormous undertaking.

The human body has three billion base pairs, each with its own unique genetic information. Identifying the meaning of these base pairs could take decades or even centuries.

Fortunately, Lin Chen had the Dream Lab.

The upgraded Dream Lab can not only bring real-world instruments and equipment into the dream world, but can also directly customize equipment that does not exist in reality according to Lin Chen's requirements.

This device is called a biochip, also known as a gene chip.

In reality, gene chips are a gene testing tool that countries around the world are currently researching.

The sequencing principle of gene chips is based on the principle of nucleic acid molecular hybridization.

A chip is fabricated by first immobilizing a large number of DNA fragments with known sequences as probes at high density on a solid support. Then, fragmented and labeled DNA or RNA samples extracted from biological samples are hybridized with the chip, and sequences in the sample complementary to the probes will specifically bind.

Finally, the chip is scanned by a detection device, and the gene sequence and related information, such as gene expression level, in the sample are determined based on the fluorescence signal intensity at the probe position.

However, this technology currently only exists in theory and does not actually exist in reality.

Fortunately, with the Dream Lab, Lin Chen can now directly exchange for this chip within his dreams.

Recently, Lin Chen has been using gene chips to sequence human DNA in his dreams.

Upon learning that the United States had completely blocked China's chip technology, this was the first countermeasure that Lin Chen thought of.

This is the kind of gene chip.

The gene chip in the dream lab is mainly used for testing gene expression information. If applied to reality, it can be seen as a specialized biochip.

If its versatility can be expanded on this basis, it can completely replace the current silicon-based chips.

Going even further, they could directly evolve China's computer industry into a bio-computer industry!

A perfect example of overtaking on a curve!

When that time comes, it won't be the Chinese begging the Americans to lift the denial list.

Instead, Americans themselves begged Congress to remove the list!

Because if they don't seize the opportunity of the silicon-based computer industry's decline to make a fortune by then, they really won't be able to make any money at all!

So in the following days, Lin Chen would spend some time each day having a meal with Chen Xiaoxiao to strengthen their relationship.

Most of his energy and time is spent in his own private laboratory.

During the day, Lin Chen works as a porter, mainly responsible for moving the research results and data from the dream laboratory into reality.

At night, he devoted himself to replicating gene chips in the dream laboratory.

Although a finished gene chip can be directly virtualized in the Dream Lab.

But this finished product can only exist in dreams. If he wants to bring it into reality, Lin Chen must figure out the principles behind it himself.

However, while conducting his research, Lin Chen did not stop his gene comparison experiments.

After all, researching gene chips is a side quest; figuring out the secrets of human DNA is Lin Chen's main mission.

However, these two tasks cannot be considered completely unrelated.

In fact, while conducting gene comparisons, Lin Chen had already begun to try to create a dedicated biological computer in his dream.

If an outsider were to enter Lin Chen's dream laboratory at this moment...

He would be surprised by the chaos here.

At this moment, fiber optic cables and electrical wires are everywhere in this dream laboratory.

In addition, there are consoles, monitors, and other devices.

When these devices are connected together, they can barely be considered a rudimentary biological computer using gene chips.

In addition to the surface equipment, taking advantage of the Dream Lab's ability to expand space, Lin Chen also prepared 10,000 cell solvent tanks in a deeper area.

These solvent tanks are automatically filled with cells that are missing a particular base pair.

The biocomputer Lin Chen created will automatically perform gene expression detection on these cells.

Once the test is complete, the cells in these solvent tanks are emptied and replaced with new, untested cells.

This cycle continues, and everything is fully automated, requiring no further effort from Lin Chen, allowing him to dedicate more time to gene chip research.

"So that's it..."

That day, in the dream laboratory, Lin Chen's research made new progress.

He finally figured out how gene chips work!

Just like silicon-based chips, gene chips also contain many tiny switches, similar to transistors, representing binary 0s and 1s, enabling data processing and storage.

However, the switches inside the gene chip are not transistors, but some kind of artificially synthesized protein molecules.

The enzyme that locates these protein molecules is a transcriptase.

If the protein molecules inside a gene chip are the hardware, then this transcriptase is the software, specifically designed to control the operation of the hardware.

The transcriptase within the virtual gene chip generated by the system can accurately obtain information and then perform cleavage operations on protein molecules.

Just like the on-off and off-off operation of a silicon-based chip transistor, it exhibits switching characteristics.

In addition to this transcriptase, Lin Chen also discovered another special protein molecule.

A nicking enzyme with target specificity.

This enzyme only cuts one strand of double-stranded DNA, creating a nick, ensuring that each operation does not directly damage the protein molecule, just as a transistor does not damage itself when it is switched on and off.

This is crucial; otherwise, even if gene chips are created, they can only be used once.

It becomes unusable after one use.

After Lin Chen recorded these two enzymes and found them in reality.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have inadvertently made another technological breakthrough.

By combining these two enzymes, Lin Chen actually created a completely new gene-editing tool!

A new tool that can accurately locate gene targets and precisely cut gene fragments!