590: Chapter 334: Yawgmoth’s “Pregnant Won” and “Babies 590: Chapter 334: Yawgmoth’s “Pregnant Won” and “Babies Inside a greenhouse, Xiang Shan and Niyaguti were wearing padded jackets, sitting at a table.
Yawgmoth was also dressed in similar attire.
However, the difference was that the padded jackets of Xiang Shan and Niyaguti were soaked with water, making them extrely cool.
Padded cotton is warm because it has a fluffy structure that can retain a large amount of air, and air is a poor conductor of heat.
But cotton itself is very absorbent and retains water.
Water has a huge specific heat capacity and transfers heat quickly.
When water evaporates from the cotton jacket, it also absorbs a lot of heat from the human body.
Therefore, every winter, there are pitiful people who freeze to death wearing wet padded jackets.
Yawgmoth looked at them sidelong, “You two …
don’t find it heavy?”
“This clothing’s lining uses the latest fabric provided by our cooperative enterprise, ensuring perspiration and breathability while blocking a lot of moisture penetration,” said Xiang Shan, taking a sip of the chilled carbonated drink from the table.
“Recently, hasn’t there been a call to explore the ‘coexistence models of Benchmark Man in Homo sapiens society’ …
Besides, I think hitting soone while wearing this would hurt more.”
Niyaguti nodded, “Hmm, I still exercise regularly.”
Their tones clearly carried a hint of hostility.
Yawgmoth felt that if he misspoke this ti, he might actually get beaten up.
Although Xiang Shan appeared to be good-tempered, anyone who got to know him well would not find it hard to realize that he was fiery at his core.
His amiable side was sotis a facade, and at other tis, it was the principle of “if you’re happy, I’m happy, everyone is happy” in dealing with people.
But once truly angered, he would express his rage in the most direct manner.
Yawgmoth felt getting beaten wasn’t a big deal.
More than a decade ago, he and Xiang Shan used to fight at the drop of a hat.
But it was better to avoid a fight today.
He said, “I invited you here because I want to discuss my new proposal …”
“Listen up, if I hear anything confidential this ti, I’ll smash this table over your head right here,” Xiang Shan pointed at Yawgmoth with his finger.
“Hmm, then let talk about two proposals,” Yawgmoth said.
“Let’s start with option D as my backup plan …”
“Hold on a second,” Xiang Shan raised his hand.
“What were you discussing with Mr.
Lu the other day about babies, pregnant won …”
“Oh, right!” Yawgmoth nodded.
“Hmm …
first, is option D about ‘babies’ or ‘pregnant won’?”
“Pregnant won,” Yawgmoth said.
Niyaguti said, “You an, starting from the chanism by which the fetus suppresses the mother’s immune system?”
Yawgmoth nodded, “Exactly.
For mammalian mothers, the fetus inside is ‘a child,’ but also ‘a genetically different foreign object.’ Mammalian reproductive behavior is essentially a kind of ‘parasitism.'”
Xiang Shan rubbed his face, “I feel like saying this out loud would get attacked by thousands.”
Yawgmoth dismissed it nonchalantly, “There are always so idiots who believe that discovering the ‘motherly love gene’ or the ‘neural chanism that generates motherly love’ would diminish the greatness of motherly love…”
Xiang Shan waved his hand, “Okay, continue with your proposal.”
“Where was I?
Oh, right, ‘pregnancy’ is a phenonon that has ‘parasitic’ characteristics.
After the fetus enters the mother’s body, it should be attacked by the mother’s immune system.
However, the fetus can suppress the mother’s immune function—just like a parasite suppresses its host’s immune function.”
“Steroid hormones and alpha-fetoprotein have a significant suppressive effect on lymphocytes.
Pregnant zone protein can suppress various immune cells…”
Niyaguti shook her head, “This is difficult.
The fetus isn’t rejected by the mother mainly because the mother actively suppresses her own rejection response.
Additionally, the fetal blood circulation isn’t directly connected to the mother’s, and a nutritive layer isolates the contact surfaces.”
Yawgmoth was sowhat dissatisfied, “I’m not finished yet.
The antigens produced by the nutritive layer as immunosuppressive factors, even the mother’s regulation of T cells, I’ve considered all of that.
The only thing that cannot be replicated is the glycoprotein on the surface of the nutritive layer.”
“The changes in T cell regulation likely start right after the male gate enters the female body,” Niyaguti said, “you an to say…?”
“Use a virus, just wrap it in a protein shell, and present the Benchmark Man’s antigens to the regulatory T cells,” Yawgmoth propped his hands under his chin, “Estrogens, progesterone, androgens, and the like can then cause a significant increase in the concentration of regulatory T cells.”
Niyaguti looked at Xiang Shan.
Xiang Shan stroked his chin, “This would cause hormonal imbalance in the Spirit Receivers, wouldn’t it?”
Yawgmoth did not respond.
“In the end, can a male’s body withstand this treatnt?”
Yawgmoth said, “A female’s definitely can.”
“That thing about the nutritive layer cell’s surface glycoprotein, does it have a large ratio in this chanism?”
“If it’s broken down by enzys, the rate of miscarriage in mice becos very high…”
Xiang Shan rubbed his face, “I guess I understand why it’s an alternative option.
Indeed…
pregnant won do have so immune capabilities.
If they get sick during pregnancy, leading to reactivation of the immune system, the miscarriage rate increases… and maybe you wouldn’t even need a sterile ward?
If the hospital infection control is good, a regular ward might suffice?
Doesn’t seem very safe.
What about the cost?”
“The biosynthetic pathways of steroid hormones, alpha-fetoprotein, and pregnant zone protein are very clear.
Estrogens, progesterone, androgens, not to ntion, are much cheaper than Plan B.”
Xiang Shan nodded, “That’s a plus—so what about your ‘baby’?”
Yawgmoth crossed his arms and began to look smug, “Speaking of which, do you know ‘chira’?”
“Chira?
From Greek mythology or Azeroth?
Or so science fiction concept in a sci-fi work?”
“It’s a very old biological term, chira,” Niyaguti guessed Yawgmoth was too disdainful to explain, so she chid in, “In immunological terms, it refers to an organism that has two or more different chromoso sets coexisting in separate cell lines, which can tolerate each other, do not produce rejection reactions, and are in a state of chirism.”
“Scientists discovered long ago that by injecting allogeneic cells into an embryo whose immunity was not yet fully developed, these cells could even continue to grow with the embryo.
The two types of cells, fairly distant in relation…
I rember there should be chiras of goats and carrots.”
Xiang Shan was astonished, “Can those even live?”
“Ethically, such embryos are destroyed after a certain stage, not allowed to be born.
They would probably die if developed to a certain stage, perhaps being born with innate defects.
But at the embryonic stage, they live quite well.”
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