The next morning he woke up after taking his complete fill of sleep.He had slept deeply last night and had no dreams.
He watched the time on his digital watch and it showed 9:00 Am.
After a long yawn he took a short bath,opened the wardrobe,took the uniform from it and wore it.
The wardrobe also had some spare clothes for his size which must have been delivered here yesterday.
He left his department and headed towards their research area.He saw no one at the entrance.So he took the lead and entered the building.
Yesterday the group had collectively decided that they would meet here at 10 Am.He had nothing much to do,and was also interested to see the new tools they had ordered from the institute.So he had arrived relatively early considering the meeting time.
But he saw that he was not the first one to arrive but in fact the last.The others too could not hold back their curosity.
Afterall it was the latest technology dreamed of by the scientists of this age .And some of the tools they had seen on website of institute were not even listed in public books.
There could be various reasons for that.One would be to keep confidentiality and the other because they were solely property of Institute and people did not even know they exist.
He did not go to check the tools first but instead approached the group.
Tim seeing that all members have arrived said"Even though we have arrived earlier,but we will still start carrying out experiments at 10 Am.In the meantime you can get familiar with tools you have not known about before."
Everyone agreed and they separated.A small part of the building had been customized by them and now looked like an appropriate research site.The rest of the building might be converted when they had more group credits.
In addition to personal credits,group credits were also allocated to all groups.The starting group credits varied by the amount of people they had.This was written in the information about group balance.But he did not know by how much they varied.
Tim had purchased research tools with most of the credits and the rest were spent to make sleeping quartars.They might need to sleep here often afterall.
The credits could be earned again,so they spent the starting group credits and now their group credits were zero.
Allen checked the machines here and there and was a little mesmersized by them.He only came to himself when Tim called him.He saw on his digital watch that it had already struck ten.
He neared the group.Tim asked him"Are you done familarizing yourself?"
Allen replied"Mostly"
Tim said"Then good.We will all work as was planned tomorrow."
Tom entered a large cubicle like space which was his workplace from now on.The others also followed suit and entered a different cubicle.They only had enough credits to fill this area with technology they bought.So they joined their working place in star like shape.The working areas were separated by a solid glass wall.The glass wall had soundproof shutters and even something that would cover the seethrough glass to make it non-transparent.
They all had soundproof shutters on but not the substance that would make glass non-transparent.
Afterall that would only protect privacy.They were all in the same boat and would get the same amount of credits so there was no need to worry of research being stolen.
Sometimes experiments might prove to be fetal,in those cases they could also help each other at a moments's notice.Though the task they had right now was not dangerous.But mishaps can always happen.
They were gonna keep the layout untill they got any more credits.And they made cubicles join in such a way that in future if there were more members they could also easily fit in here.
Though it was not really their intention,it just turned out that way as the space is too much for them.
They had decided to aim for the small successful task.But they would also store data of failed experiments for future use.And they could also be submitted to gain credits in addition to their small successful task.
The data of failed experiment need to be detailed or it would be rejected.It was mainly done to prevent neglect of duty and exploiting of loopholes.
An experiment is not simply mixing up of materials.It needs careful planning.And for a successful task you need to make many adjustments.A rational person would not repeat the same mistakes over and over again as also said in the quote.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"
The materials required for experiments were also provided for free in a limited quantity.However one month's research materials are something that can't be finished in even couple of months.
The limit is only to prevent smuggling of research materials.
They had enough materials and enough time on their hands.So they started the experiments patiently.Yesterday the planning was mostly about division of duties.
The individual would obviously plan his experiments himself.
The task their group was assigned was to produce a rabbit having three different qualities than the already present species.It was a small task as it was a small animal.the medium difficulty task would be to modify genes of a larger animal like deer or the sort.He did not know about higher difficulty task though.But going by the trend it should be elephent or Apes?.
The difficulty mainly describes how much difficult and time-consuming it would be.As a larger animal will take more time to be modified usually.
Due to great progress in technology they had become able to attach different properties to a single cell.In the past a bacterium cell was used to produce single insulin.
But now it could create several proteins .Or it could also be used to create insulin in greater quantity.A single cell could produce 6 times more insulin than the past.The dividing time of bacterium cell had also not differenciated much.
A cell could contain more quantity of a single protein than if different proteins were attached.Though the collective quantity of proteins would be more than an individual protein.
One of the group of four would extract proteins from another organism.Then attach it to bacteria.Two of them would then harvest the said proteins,purify them and then inject said proteins to the rabbit.
The process of transferring genes was more difficult afterall.The last one would have various duties to perform.One of them would be to monitor the process.The duty was given to Yushin.
Allen was the one who had to attach the genes.One of the tests taken by institute tested one's talent in this.There was a training course that taught how to do that arranged by institute.It did not last months but only a few days.
The basics were taught by them,they had demonstrated real time and also given many practical videos for referance.
So Allen and the others only needed to try it for a while and they got the hang of it.They were not geniuses for show.
Though the task was not finished but only beginning.
Attaching two proteins to a cell is a different matter altogether than attaching one protein.The difficulty multiplies.And they had to attach three proteins.
They could not just take genes from lion,snake,monkey and attach to the rabbit haphazardly.The reason was compatibility.They need to be synchronized.Otherwise cell might become unstable.The cell needs stability.So genes should be balanced out by some mean.
Instability might result in a mutation or destruction of cell.And the mutation would not be preferable normally.
The common mutation would result in a plague like virus in the body.After all cell reproduce fast.In most cases the host would become disabled.
Normally the virus could be easily contained in a quarantine zone.There were special measures to stop outbreak.
Judging by the rate their prgroess was coming along, it might take more than 10-20 days for any successful results.
After 9 days had passed,they had finally accomplished their task.With time they had gotten more proffesional in their task so they completed it earlier than planned.
It was a welcome change though.Tim submitted their task at the main centre and they acquired the award for the task.They had also submitted data of their 1011 failed experiments.And not even one of them got rejected by the A.I. because they were backed by sufficient reasoning.
Their modified rabbit was more active due to addition of iron,had stronger bones due to calcium and had better vision due to Vitamin A.
They received a total of 160 credits which were divided among them equally.And same amount of group credits.They bought some replenishments for now and stored the leftovers for future use.
They did not need many new tools for now as they were gonna continue their research on rabbit DNA.If they could attach total of four qualities to it,their credits would rise drastically.So they did not accept any side tasks.
But the difficulty of attaching more proteins to a single cell would obviously rise exponentially.Though even if they fail,the data and experience acquired would surely aid them in the future tasks.So there was only benefit in it for them