Chapter 90: Obstacles in the Path Will Not Hinder Progression
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Over the following month, Chen Chen did not go anywhere and remained cooped up in the embassy reading materials and biology thesis.
From induced pluripotent stem cells to regenerative dical science, biomaterials, tissue engineering, genetic engineering, and cell engineering, Chen Chen was advancing one step at a ti.
When there was no longer a restriction to the knowledge Chen Chen could have access to, he began to devour all current existing biological knowledge at a breakneck speed.
Without realizing it, it was already 31 January 2022. If Chen Chen was still in school, today would have been the end of the first half of his sophomore year.
Today also happened to be the day of a very important cultural event in China – New Year’s Eve.
At around two in the afternoon, while reading a thesis on “CRISPR/Cas9 systemic human genetics in relation to relative position”, an idea suddenly ca to Chen Chen. He picked up his phone and dialed an all-too-familiar number after a montary hesitation.
Namibia was in the UTC 2 ti zone, which was six hours away from Mainland China. It was around eight o’clock at night back in Mainland China.
“Hey, Little Chen, how did you find the ti to call your mom?”
The voice of Chen Chen’s mother ca out from the other end, “Don’t worry, your mom and dad are doing fine. Your dad bought a villa following your recomndation, it’s still being renovated now.
“Once you get married in the future, you won’t have to move out. I can spend ti with my grandchild that way...
“Anyway, your dad is still the sa as he’s always been, always so stingy with relatives... Let’s not talk about it, makes angry when I think about it!
“Speaking of which, Little Chen. When are you coming back? I haven’t seen you in a whole year ever since last year’s New Year. Don’t just invest all your ti on your work, find so ti to co back now and then, bring a girlfriend back too, eh?”
Listening to his mother nagging on and on, Chen Chen answered sheepishly to her remarks. The conversation went on this way for half an hour before it ended.
There was still a remnant of a smile in Chen Chen’s eyes after he had ended the call. He got so shuteye after that.
When he opened his eyes again, the trace of smile was completely drowned in his pitch-black pupils.
The farther away he was from ho, the more he longed for the charm of being at ho. It was for this reason that Chen Chen wanted to preserve this charm forever.
“Mankind anti-aging project...”
Chen Chen mumbled to himself. This project was sothing he began drafting with ever since acquiring the USB drive. It was the ultimate endeavor to forcefully extend the human lifespan by all ans necessary.
The reason for Chen Chen’s unwavering commitnt to see this project through was for the sake of his parents. He did not intend to continue living on all by himself. He had hoped that his parents would be there with him on this journey of life.
His parents must have felt the sa way as well. They also had loved ones in their lifeti that they held dear to and certainly hoped could continue to be with them.
This was how Chen Chen’s plan directed on the entirety of mankind ca to be.
The first step to achieving immortality was to break the boundaries of the Hayflick limit to achieve longevity of the human lifespan. Only after acquiring the technique to longevity could one hope to pursue the elusive fable known as immortality.
It could even be said that everything Chen Chen did up till this point was to help him set to stage to carry out his project.
One of the components Chen Chen required for his project was a technique referred to as embryonic stem cell cloning. This was a technique that the entire world was striving to develop.
In contrast to the human cloning technique which faced countless scrutiny on an international scale, simple cloning of human embryo was not t with the sa treatnt. As far as most scientists were concerned, the brain of an embryo was hardly developed, if at all. It was just a sack of at.
Just like how getting an abortion before fourteen weeks was considered not be a big issue. Passing the fourteen weeks period, it would be considered taboo to get an abortion.
The fourteenth week was considered the critical point where the fetal brain began rapid developnt. From this point onward, it was considered a human.
Whether the cloning of human embryos was considered taboo or not had been a subject of controversy in the dical world for so ti.
The way Chen Chen saw it, it was a small price to pay for a further breakthrough in dical science. It would lead to curing more sickness and alleviating more people of their pain and suffering.
Simply put, dical developnt would always be a double-edged sword. Questions of morality and ethics would constantly be a part of the conversation when it ca to such techniques. Without the factor of morality and ethics, the dical industry would spiral downward into an abyss of destruction.
However, when the bar of morality and ethics was set too high, the technological progression was hindered as well.
Chen Chen held onto his belief that the obstacles in this path would not hinder progression as the advancent of human technology had always been associated with countless obstacles and barriers.
It was a parallel of the relationship between environntal protection and developnt. Everyone knew that humanity wanted to preserve and protect the earth and its environnt. They tend to forget the real motive behind doing so was to protect themselves. If the earth and its environnt were destroyed, humanity would cease to exist as well.
However, limiting the advancent of technology for the sake of protecting the environnt was like putting the cart before the horse.
So sort of balance had to be achieved to maintain the trend of upward progression.
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