Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1072 - 878: Trial and Error - The Greatest Cost of Scientific Research_2

Chapter 1072: Chapter 878: Trial and Error - The Greatest Cost of Scientific Research_2

"At this point, all personnel trapped inside were safely evacuated, and our firefighters began to withdraw en masse, retreating as quickly as possible," he said. The excellent discipline ensured that the order was faithfully executed by everyone, Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

"Team leaders Lei Bin and Fang Liu both had plenty of experience; they immediately planned the closest route and began a rapid evacuation from the center of the fire. A massive explosion was brewing at this point, one could even hear the terrifying sizzling noise."

"They were the squad that ventured the deepest, so they took the longest to evacuate. They headed northwest until they were outside of the building and then continued retreating."

"While they were still in the process of evacuating, boom! The explosion occurred."

"The earth shook, and the mountains swayed!"

"Fortunately, our firefighters were all safely evacuated by then, but the blast wave from the explosion knocked them over, leaving many of them unconscious. Our people’s soldiers arrived and rescued them."

Zhang Lin described the scene vividly, as if he had been there himself, complete with supporting gestures.

Even the head of the Pediatrics Department gathered around to listen to Zhang Lin’s story of the firefighting operation, completely engrossed."

"What happened afterward?"

Someone asked, still not having had their fill.

"Later, Fang Liu and Old Xiao were brought to our Hospital’s Emergency Department. At that time, our department was also a key part of the rescue efforts. I was the first to rush up---"

Zhang Lin was about to continue his story.

"Aren’t you going back to work?"

A female doctor said to Zhang Lin, who turned to see it was his wife, and promptly excused himself to leave.

"Don’t go, you haven’t finished the story yet, there’s still Fang Liu’s thrilling love story---"

"Next time, next time---"

Zhang Lin scurried back disappointingly.

Fang Liu and Old Xiao had strong constitutions and recovered quickly. Their lung blast injuries healed fast, and since the damage to their other organs was minor, they recovered even faster.

In the Ward, Fang Liu was already planning his traveling route on a map, and Lan Xueping, seeing the improvement in his condition after surgery, began to look forward to life again. Especially after experiencing a life-and-death separation with Fang Liu, she cherished her current happiness even more and decided that no matter how her Illness progressed in the future, she would live well and lead an extraordinary life.

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With Fang Liu and Old Xiao recovering nicely, Yang Ping could stop worrying about their conditions and continue with his experiments.

Yang Ping’s new research topic---finding the cause of death in Tumor Cells---was steadily progressing.

The analysis results of the electron microscope images of the dead Tumor Cells had been released. The cause of death for the Tumor Cells was some unknown factor initiating apoptosis, causing a chain reaction and leading to the Tumor Cells dying off as if stricken by a plague, one after another. And this "plague" for the Tumor Cells was like a curse; none of the remaining Tumor Cells escaped the curse, all perishing.

Cell apoptosis is a type of programmed and orderly suicide method of cell death. It is controlled by genes and differs from cell necrosis; it is not passive but instead active, often involving the activation, expression, and regulation of genes. It is a fundamental biological phenomenon that plays a very important role in multicellular organisms by eliminating unwanted or abnormal cells, and it has a very positive impact on organisms.

For example, if aberrant cells, such as tumor cells, appear in the human body, the immune surveillance mechanism detects that something is wrong with the cell, it immediately initiates the apoptosis program. Through a series of gene regulations, the cell is ultimately induced to commit suicide and die to prevent further division and multiplication that could harm the body’s health.

The complete annihilation of the tumor cell repository was originally an accidental event, but Yang Ping keenly realized that this accident might contain some surprising secrets, so she isolated it and set up a separate subject for research.

Using an electron microscope to photograph the structure of the dead cells at the organelle level and analyzing a large number of photos to trace the cause of death, the data analysis results now confirm that the cells died due to the activation of the apoptosis program, with every cell’s death process completely aligning with the apoptosis sequence.

The reason that cancer cells become malignant is that they escape from the body’s immune surveillance and ignore the body’s death orders. When the body’s surveillance system discovers a cancerous cell, it commands the cancer cell to initiate apoptosis, which is essentially to execute a death program. However, under certain conditions, cancer cells ignore the body’s command, forcibly block the death program issued by the body, and continue to divide and grow—as a result, cancer forms.

Although it is known that the cells died by apoptosis, it is not yet known at which stage the cancer cells’ escape mechanism failed, and what external factors forcibly initiated the death program that led these cancer cells to carry out the suicide orders one by one.

The method of death has been found, but the murderer has not.

Who could possess such capability to successfully suppress the cancer cells’ escape mechanism, firmly target them, and then force them to commit mass suicide?

Yang Ping pondered this question in the System Space Laboratory, grabbing this clue to work backwards. If the cause of cell apoptosis could be found, it might open up a new avenue for the treatment of tumors.

The trigger for apoptosis could be a certain substance, or perhaps an intangible form of energy, information, or another type of presence.

Next, Yang Ping had to analyze the electron microscope photos again, but this time the analysis content and targets were different. Last time was to analyze the photos of dead cells in different states to determine the manner and cause of death.

This time, she hoped to discover what story took place before the cells died, what new factors they encountered, or what gene mutations occurred, or perhaps they were influenced by some kind of signal.

This analysis, compared to the previous state analysis, was even more complex. Yang Ping organized her thoughts, then decided to use the supercomputer function of the System Panel again to analyze what changes had occurred inside and outside the cell before death, during death, and after death, with a particular focus on analyzing new substances, signals, or mutant genes that appeared.

Yang Ping assumed the existence of this cause as the K factor. She initiated the second step of the experiment, searching for the K factor, searching for the trigger that initiates apoptosis in tumor cells.

After planning all the details of the experiment, Yang Ping entrusted the System Panel and Robotic Arm to execute the experiment.

And for her main project, the search for Spatial Orientation Genes, so far, besides obtaining the muscle’s Spatial Orientation Gene, she had yet to acquire other organs’ Spatial Orientation Genes.

Gene analysis is an exceedingly difficult task. With countless genetic sites, pinpointing the specific function of each is not achievable in a short period. It requires repeated, extensive analysis, and even after the analysis results come out, many experiments must be designed to validate whether the analysis is accurate.

Such foundational scientific research is by no means easy, or otherwise, countless scientists and laboratories around the world wouldn’t spend decades without achieving key breakthroughs.

Basic research involves massive amounts of data processing and trial and error. Years of dedicated research might ultimately reveal that the chosen path is incorrect, necessitating the need to replan the scientific approach.

This is exactly why some of the world’s top laboratories and companies have established technological barriers that are difficult for newcomers to surpass.

Take, for instance, the world’s leading pharmaceutical giants; their laboratories’ databases have accumulated vast amounts of trial and error data. One should not underestimate the value of these data—they constitute the core and most valuable resources, forming the greatest technological barriers that prevent others from surpassing them.

For those who come later, the things that they invest massive numbers of talent, funds, and decades of research into might already be sitting in someone else’s database, already tested and proven to be the wrong direction.

What’s most suffocating for the pursuers is that no matter how hard they try, their so-called ’latest topics’ are merely repeating the errors already made by others decades ago.

This is the reason why the world’s leading pharmaceutical giants have never changed hands. They rely on this trial and error data to firmly occupy the top of the pyramid, rendering any attempt at overtaking by pursuers hopeless.

However, Yang Ping’s System Space Laboratory made the biggest cost of scientific research—trial and error—very cheap.

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