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Scientists have succeeded in turning cooked eggs into raw eggs, which is of great significance to th

Looking at the title, you might think that this is another piece of boring scientific news, but turning the cooked egg back to the raw egg means that the protein structure is changed again, which is of great significance to human research on how to fight cancer.

For many years, scientists all over the world have been studying how to change a boiled egg back to its original raw one. Recently, according to UCI news, a monthly magazine sponsored by the University of California, Irvine campus, and Australian chemists, the technology has finally succeeded. If the technology is applied to cancer treatment and food production, the cost can be greatly reduced.

Gregory Weiss, Professor of chemical and molecular biology at UCI, who led the study, said: 'as the report says, our research is to separate the intricate proteins and restore them to their original state. We're not interested in the evolution of eggs. What we want to prove more than this is that this technology contains infinite power. '

When you cook an egg, because of heat and chemical reactions, a clear protein called lysozyme turns white and solidifies to form a new structure. Weiss used urea in this experiment. He injects urea into the solidified protein, and then mechanically applies pressure with the vortex flow excess flow device, and the frozen protein will melt again and return to its original liquid state. '

In fact, many researchers have been exploring the generation and reuse of precious molecular proteins. In the research and development of pharmaceutical products, transgenic proteins are specially processed to replace molecular proteins, but the cost is very high. In addition, although egg protein molecules can be used in many fields, but because of its complex structure, how to make it artificially has always been a big problem for researchers.

If the technology is applied, scientists believe it will play a significant role in the pharmaceutical industry and protein production research.

Now, for example, in pharmaceutical companies, because proteins are rarely separated, they use expensive 'hamster ovary cells' to make cancer antibodies. Therefore, patients who need anti-cancer treatment will have to bear a high cost of treatment. However, as long as this technology is used, it is possible to regenerate proteins from yeast and Escherichia coli bacteria quickly and cheaply. By simplifying the formation of proteins, the cost of cancer treatment in the future may be much cheaper.

The University of California, Irvine, has applied for a patent for the latest technology. Enterprises with technical cooperation with the university are actively promoting technology introduction among the industrial partners showing interest.