Surgery Godfather
Chapter 957 - 817: Big Brother Luo’s Clinic

Chapter 957: Chapter 817: Big Brother Luo’s Clinic

Tang Shun prepared to start 10 cultivators simultaneously. The experimental scale of these 10 cultivators would require about 100 million RMB in research funds, which was an astronomical figure for a medical project.

However, Yang Ping felt that Tang Shun was too conservative—10 cultivators would definitely not be enough, and more would inevitably need to be added later. Rather than making incremental additions, Yang Ping suggested that Tang Shun should start 100 cultivators at once.

Given the current success rate, only a few dozen out of 100 cultivators would be successful. These successful ones would each require a specimen to be taken at every stage for tissue section observation, so the number of specimens used would also be substantial.

But for 100 cultivators, the research funds needed would be 10 billion, and Professor Yang was confident in this.

Since Professor Yang was so supportive, Tang Shun no longer penny-pinched. He immediately expanded the experimental scale to simultaneously start 100 cultivators. The current space of one floor in the stem cell laboratory was definitely not enough. To accommodate so many cultivators, the stem cell laboratory was expanded by an additional floor.

Not to mention adding one floor, even adding an entire building, at Sanbo Hospital, was just a matter of one word from Yang Ping.

As for the funding issue, it was not a problem at all. Yang Ping’s dedicated research fund alone received donations of ten billion euros from the European Duke Fund, although this money was granted in installments, and several billion euros had already been received, not to mention that the Anning Group was also backing them.

Even without these donations, with the current financial power of the Ruixing Group, coming up with the tens of billions was not an issue.

Following Yang Ping’s request, Tang Shun rolled out the entire experiment.

Cell division occurred exponentially, and was very rapid. Soon, the stem cells in the cultivators began to show visible forms, very small, just the size of sesame seeds.

Out of 100 cultivators, 39 successfully cultivated organs with distinct shapes, while the remaining 61 only grew scattered cell clusters.

Tang Shun took one specimen from each successful sample every period for observation, and finally made tissue sections to examine under the microscope.

Moreover, with the help of Nandu University Medical Digital Medical Laboratory’s digital human technology, these specimens were compared and studied, making their structures very clear.

It was confirmed that these were not clusters of loose cells but distinct organs with their own structure and shape. The sesame seeds slowly grew into mung beans, and the mung beans into peas; when the cultivated muscle reached the size of a pea, its muscular shape was visually identifiable.

"Doctor Tang, look, their shapes are full, and their surfaces are smooth, completely different from other cell clusters," a researcher also noticed the difference.

Excitedly staring at the muscle "seedling" inside the transparent chamber, Tang Shun said, "Even with the naked eye, you can tell this is not just a cluster of cells, but a piece of muscle, though it is still quite small, just beginning to sprout."

No matter how small, there is a big difference in appearance between a pile of bricks and a small house built from those bricks— even the young researchers could identify it visually.

When they heard Tang Shun say it was a piece of muscle, the researchers widened their eyes in disbelief. They couldn’t believe that their laboratory could actually cultivate a piece of muscle, cultivating a separate organ ex-vivo, a concept that many of the world’s top laboratories currently dared not even imagine. At most, they resorted to modifying genes and cultivating organs in animals for human transplants.

For instance, cultivating genetically modified hearts in pigs, and then transplanting these hearts into humans. Several such surgeries had already been performed in the United States.

Unfortunately, this method was not yet mature—after a heart transplant, the longest survival time recorded for patients was only a few months.

Tang Shun carefully took out a formed muscle "embryo" with tweezers, made it into a section, and placed it under a microscope for detailed observation.

The structure was becoming clearer and clearer—it really wasn’t just a bunch of cells but muscle fashioned by cells, although small, it had the same structure as normal muscle, and incredibly, it even cultivated blood vessels and nerves weaving through it.

Upon examination, this method of cultivating muscle alone resembled the structure of muscle in an embryo.

Because this muscle relied on nutrient solution to provide oxygen and nutrients, its vascular system was not yet infused with blood, existing in a non-filled state. As a result, the vessels were not in their ideal tubular form but rather a flat potential cavity structure, confirming a physiological principle that structure adapts to function, and function, in turn, affects structure.

After all, this was ex-vivo cultivation; all the oxygen and nutrients came from the nutrient solution. Later, once the muscle grew to a certain form, it would require a dedicated artificial heart-lung machine to help the muscle establish an artificial circulation system. This artificial circulation system would reserve various calibers of artery and vein interfaces, connecting by artificial conduits to the muscle’s arteries and veins, forming an artificial circulation.

Under the influence of artificial circulation, the flat vessels would gain filling tension and, after some time, gradually restore to their tubular structures, and the walls of the vessels would tend towards normal thickness and elasticity.

Professor Yang’s laboratory plans also addressed this point and provided specific guidelines.

Professor Yang’s experimental plan even predicted all the issues related to the experiment and provided solutions, which required a tremendously strong and rigorous logical thinking ability.

Theoretically, the capability was beyond human brain’s reach, but he had achieved it.