"Measurement, comparison, localization; this is how we record the genetic sequence of every patient with a genetic disease, hoping to find a solution."
Harry walked along, showing Peter the Osborn's "Biological Era" project.
Compared to a good buddy, this Peter of this World felt more like a younger brother to Harry.
Having lived two lifetimes, Harry's mental age made it difficult for him to treat this high schooler Peter Parker as a best friend.
"I know this, gene therapy. Many biotech companies are doing this." Peter clearly had some understanding of genetics.
In fact, research on genetic diseases has never stopped, and Osborn itself has conducted related research.
"It seems you've studied this quite a bit." Harry said, walking and pointing to the cases on the display screen:
"Crigler-Najjar syndrome, also known as congenital glucuronyltransferase deficiency, congenital non-obstructive non-hemolytic jaundice; this genetic disease has two types."
"Type I was reported in 1952, an autosomal recessive trait, parents are often consanguineous; I won't go into the overly technical stuff, but in short, it's caused by the lack of a certain enzyme in the patient's liver cells, which triggers a series of diseases."
The patient in the picture was a young child, their body bent backward like a bow, looking extremely painful.
"Type II was reported in 1962, an autosomal dominant trait, parents are rarely consanguineous, and it also involves abnormal liver cell function."
"Osborn Group has developed a gene serum that can modify the problematic genes through long-term use, allowing patients to recover."
"Of course, there is another treatment method—getting a liver transplant; Osborn Group also possesses artificial liver technology."
Peter's face was full of admiration.
He used to think Iron Man was cool, that one person could deter the entire World and maintain World peace.
But the incident where Uncle Ben almost died changed his perspective. He began to pay attention to Osborn Group's biotechnology; these technologies were like magic.
Since launching the Biological Era project, Osborn has used gene therapy to conquer over 30 genetic diseases and has begun attempting commercialization—though, of course, the conquest of these genetic diseases mostly drew on the research of predecessors.
Considering this project only started a few months ago, this efficiency could be said to be astonishing.
As time passed, Peter had almost finished seeing all of Osborn's technological achievements under Harry's guidance.
This was much more satisfying than standing in a building 5 kilometers away watching a big screen presentation, Peter thought with satisfaction.
"That's everything, how does it feel?" Harry stopped and said to Peter with a smile.
"Too cool! A few weeks ago, I still thought the Iron Man Suit was the best invention in this World, but now it might have to move down a spot. Mr. Osborn, can you tell me about that gene therapy?"
"Of course, but you can call me Harry. I'm actually only a few years older than you."
"That's great, Harry. Can you tell me about this..."
Harry didn't mind explaining these things; he somewhat understood why Tony always had an inexplicable smile when teaching him physics lessons.
This feeling of being a teacher was actually quite nice, especially when the student was an eager-to-learn genius.
Ahem, he had invisibly bragged about himself.
"Animals have many special abilities that we humans do not possess—for example, reptiles generally have the ability to regenerate severed limbs, and ants can lift 50-100 times their own weight."
"So my father, who is now the Governor, Norman Osborn, decided to launch this research." Harry paused here and looked at Peter.
"Interspecies genetics." Peter also raised his hand in cooperation.
"Bingo." Harry smiled and continued:
"Targeting a certain class of organisms, we transfer the traits of various families with different abilities, either directly or after enhancement, onto one organism of the same class—this has the highest probability of success."
Peter listened while noting down this concept in his notebook.
This kid didn't seem to know that Harry was talking about the genetically modified spider.
"Then, find a way to transfer the traits of this'super organism' to humans, so that humans also possess these abilities."
Hearing this, Harry noticed Peter's pen slowed down.
"For example, the class Arachnida; we used genetic engineering technology to create several types of super spiders, like this one, the Deinopidae spider, family Deinopidae, which has the ability to jump and capture prey."
Peter's expression became strange.
"This is a net-casting spider, family Deinopidae; at the same scale, this spider's web is comparable to the high-strength steel cables used on bridges. After improvement, its performance is even better, and it has very good conductivity. Osborn Group once considered using this Web Fluid as a biological cable, but later we found a better option."
Peter opened his phone to check the strength coefficient of high-strength steel cables.
"This grass spider has an extremely fast reaction system. Some researchers believe this reaction has reached the effect of pre-cognition, becoming a kind of perception that warns of danger. They call it—"
"Spider-Sense."
When Harry said this, Peter finally stopped the pen in his hand.
He looked up to see Harry looking at him with a half-smile.
"Uh, Mr. Osborn?"
"I've said it before, you can call me Harry."
The atmosphere gradually became awkward, and Peter's nimble little mouth couldn't open at this moment.
To ease the atmosphere, Harry played another video.
In the video, a person wearing red pajamas and funny goggles sprayed white silk threads from their hands, constantly swinging between buildings, and casually used this stuff to tie up a thief who intended to steal a car.
They even caught a car traveling at 40 km/h with their bare hands.
"Do you know this person?" Harry asked.
"I don't know—no, I know. I mean, this person has been very popular on YouTube recently, everyone knows him, but this could also be computer effects or something."
"That is possible, but what I want to say is that this person's abilities are very similar to that genetically modified spider you swatted to death a few months ago. Do you understand what I mean?"
Harry took a small box of white liquid out from the desk.
"This is that kind of white silk thread, or Web Fluid. And as for the goggles, it's understandable that ordinary humans would become very uncomfortable after acquiring super senses."
"Reasonable guess, I mean this still doesn't dispel the suspicion that the video might be photoshopped, I guess?"
Peter shrugged nervously.
Harry found him quite funny, but he had come today to be direct.
"Peter, do you remember when I drew a tube of blood from you while saving Mr. Parker? I know that it's you, Spider-Man."
Hearing this, Peter slumped against the back of the sofa as if he had surrendered.
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