The Godfather of Surgery

Laboratory at Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany.

Professor Maninstein was very excited. After he brought back the protein factor that can activate the muscle space guidance gene from China, he couldn't wait to start the laboratory. Now, the pea-sized muscles in the incubator can be seen through the transparent shell.

What a cute little guy, Maninstein looked at several little peas in the incubator and almost came up to kiss them.

He no longer cared about waiting for his muscles to grow bigger, he wanted to study what these little things were.

With the help of his assistant, he carefully used special tweezers to take out a small pea from it, then made ultra-thin slices and put them under a microscope for observation to see what the structure of these things was.

Judging from the longitudinal and transverse slices, this is a complete muscle, not only the muscle fibers arranged in an orderly manner, but also the blood vessels, lymphatic vessels and nerves that shuttle through it. It is so perfect.

The connection between cells is no different from the microstructure of human muscle. It does not rely on any other external artificial substances as adhesives and shaping agents. This is the real muscle cultivated by artificial methods. Currently, it is based on biological 3D The muscles produced by printing technology can only be said to be similar in appearance, but the internal structure cannot be the same or close.

According to Yang Ping's theory, cultivating a muscle is just the beginning. If the activation factors are modified to allow them to control the activators of spatial genes more accurately, biceps, triceps, and other muscles can be cultivated artificially in the future. For a specific muscle such as the quadriceps, hamstrings, etc., the shape, structure, and volume should be similar to the real muscle.

What a miraculous theory and miraculous breeding technology. This is equivalent to growing a real apple in a box without breaking away from the apple tree.

Professor Maninstein, is this a real muscle? Are we creating a real human muscle in this box?

the assistant asked impatiently.

Professor Maninstein said with great excitement: See for yourselves and share my joy!

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Now, the time in the system space and the real time are running at the same time, but the time in the system space is much faster than the real time.

While Yang Ping was living and working in the real world, the system space experiment was still going on without any delay.

Yang Ping calculated the time. The laboratory in the system space was almost ready to produce results. Yang Ping entered the system space.

Unfortunately, the experimental results were unsatisfactory. Although the K factor could be adapted to the human body after modification, the expected effect did not occur when it was introduced into the experimental subjects.

In this experiment, Yang Ping and his colleagues simultaneously invested more than 400 modified K factors, but all of these 400 or so were proven to be failures and could not function in the experimental subjects.

If this were to be implemented in reality, it would mean that a team of thousands of people had invested billions of dollars, but all of their time was wasted in more than ten years.

But this was in Yang Ping's system space laboratory. What he lost was only points and a very small amount of time. If the time in the system space was converted into real time, the loss would only be a few days, and this time is parallel to real time. Pushing forward, there is no waste of Yang Ping's real time.

If it doesn’t work for a few days, then it won’t work for a few more days, and if it still doesn’t work, then it won’t work for another few days!

Yang Ping carefully checked the routes he had taken and stored all the erroneous routes in the system panel. The system panel was equivalent to a computer and became Yang Ping's powerful assistant. How could he not be doing any experiments these days without the help of a computer.

No longer following the route that he had already taken, Yang Ping began to re-modify the K factor and select a new structure. There was no other way. This kind of experiment was like this. He tried one by one the ones that he could think of that might meet the requirements, and finally selected the ones that succeeded. of protein factors.

Of course, it is also possible that it will come to nothing in the end, and no qualified K factor can be found that can be used in the human body. This is not a strange thing. Many new drug researches are like this. The final success rate is far less than ten percent. All efforts only have a success rate of a few percent.

The system space laboratory has extremely low time and resource costs, but there is no advantage in luck.

It’s no big deal if you fail and try again.

Yang Ping carefully analyzed all the data, and then mentally reviewed the entire experimental process. Based on these failed experiences, he started to select the experimental route again and let the experiment start again.

Trial and error, constant trial and error, this is the most painful part of scientific research, so people who cannot bear loneliness cannot do scientific research.

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The results of all Sisi's examinations have come out, including PEC-CT. Yang Ping is sitting in the office, with a professional electronic imaging screen placed on his desk.

The PEC-CT image is displayed on the screen. The lighting in the office is very good. I don’t know if it is a coincidence or Director Han’s deliberate choice at that time. When viewing the image pictures in the office, the electronic screen is placed in this way, so that each image can be clearly seen under natural light. A detail, but not reflective.

After untold hardships, surgeries, and Haifu's knife, these hateful tumor cells were still not eliminated. Their seeds spread everywhere with the blood circulation. Now tumors can be seen in the head, lungs, liver, and kidneys. The shadow is everywhere, growing crazily.

Especially tumors in the head are located in the brainstem, and in the center of the nerve nuclei, they grow diffusely.

In this way, surgery is almost impossible. If you want surgery, you can only remove part of the normal brainstem tissue. However, the nerve nuclei of the brainstem are very important and are the center of life. Once damaged, life will also end.

The location and pattern of invasion of this tumor are beyond the scope of surgery, no matter how sophisticated the surgery is.

Just like a glass of water poured into the soil, it has been mixed with the soil. It is impossible to separate the water and the soil using the method of artificial bean selection.

The K therapy that Yang Ping had pinned his hopes on is now encountering difficulties in the experiment. The K factor is very effective in the experimental environment and can kill all tumor cells, but it cannot work at all in the human environment due to the influence of many factors. Yang Ping has now modified the K gene more than 400 times, and finally obtained a qualified K factor that can be safely imported into the human body. However, in the process of functioning, side effects of one kind or another occurred, and some even became disabled.

Tumors in other parts of the body can wait, but tumors in the intracranial brainstem cannot wait at all. Once they continue to spread and expand and exceed a certain threshold, they will be life-threatening.

Sisi is currently in a very dangerous state and her life may be in danger at any time.

Yang Ping has rich experience in brainstem tumors. Professor Feng, Ning Jue, and Fujiwara Tanio all had brainstem tumors in the past. However, they did not grow diffusely in the center of the nerve complex, so they used Surgery can also solve the problem.

If the brainstem tumors of Professor Feng, Ning Jue, and Fujiwara Tanio are compared to a mixture of fine sand and soil, they at least have their own shapes, which can be distinguished using various technologies, and then the fine sand is picked out from the soil.

Sisi's current tumor is a mixture of water and soil. It is impossible to pick out the water from the soil, so other methods can only be used.

As for cell therapy, it is currently only effective for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and has poor or even no effect on other tumors.

Other tumor treatment methods, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and various particle knives, are almost ineffective in Sisi's situation at this time. If used, it is likely to break the current precarious balance.

Even if Yang Ping can mobilize medical resources from all over the world, it will be of no avail now.

Sometimes, human beings look pale and helpless in the face of disease.

The black and white image stayed on the electronic screen. Yang Ping squinted his eyes slightly, thinking about what to do next. The little girl was in a very dangerous situation now, and Yang Ping didn't have much time.

professor!

There was Song Zimo's voice outside the door.

The office door was not locked, just closed. Yang Ping woke up from his thoughts: Come in.

Song Zimo opened the door and saw the image on the electronic screen on his desk. He could see that it belonged to Sisi: You are also seeing it. It has spread throughout the body, including the brain stem inside the skull.

Well, I'm working on it.

Yang Ping nodded calmly. Medicine is sometimes like this. Although we always emphasize temperature, the reality is always so cruel and requires calmness and rationality.

If the experiment fails to make progress, the reality will be very cruel, and Sisi will not be able to escape the final outcome.

Surgery is almost impossible. Song Zimo pulled up a chair and sat next to him, studying the PEC-CT pictures with Yang Ping.

It's not almost impossible, but absolutely impossible. Yang Ping said calmly.

Later, Xu Zhiliang, Zhang Lin, and Xiao Wu also came in. These people knew Sisi's condition very well. They gathered around the desk and looked at the images and pictures on the electronic screen in silence. At this time, only the professor could Have an idea.

What should we do? This part is a nerve nucleus, not a gap between nuclei. It is life-threatening at any time. What should we do?

Song Zimo’s problem is everyone’s problem.

Yang Ping placed a full cup of tea on his desk. There was no heat at all because he had not taken a sip since it was brewed.

Is the ion knife okay? Griffin can help, contact Anderson's machine.

Song Zimo knew that the Haifu knife was useless at this time, and ultrasonic waves could not penetrate the solid skull, so he could only place his hope on various other advanced ion knives.

Yang Ping shook his head.

Uncover the skull with a bone flap, so that the ultrasound waves are not blocked by the skull and only need to pass through the hard and pia mater to enter the brain tissue?

Song Zimo imagined a more creative method. Haifu knife focuses ultrasonic waves and cannot be used inside the skull because the skull blocks it. If the skull is uncovered, a window will be formed to allow ultrasonic waves to enter through the window.

Your idea is very imaginative, but it doesn't work. Haifu Knife is also flawed. Its energy focus is not very precise. Thermal damage will accidentally damage the surrounding normal brain stem cells. If it is in the liver, this accidental injury is nothing. , there is no need to consider it at all, but in the brainstem, and it is a complex of nerves, this kind of accidental injury from thermal damage will be fatal.

Yang Ping still shook his head and kept staring at the video screen.

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The Twin Star Building is the landmark building of Sanbo Hospital. The roofs of the surgical building and the internal medicine building are helipads. Helicopters often take off and land in the surgical building, but the helipad in the internal medicine building is rarely used.

The top of the building with more than 30 floors is also a good observation tower with city scenery. Sometimes, doctors from Sanbo Hospital are interested in climbing to the top of the building to look at the scenery of the city and feel relaxed and happy.

The work of doctors is very stressful, especially for young doctors who have just entered the profession and are under tremendous pressure. People often come up for a ride and look at the city scenery with a commanding view. Their minds will become more open-minded, and the worries they had before can disappear.

But once, a patient in the oncology department secretly climbed up and jumped from here. From then on, the place was either locked or guarded by security guards, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter the rooftop.

Sisi pestered Yang Ping, insisting that Yang Ping take her up to the rooftop to experience the feeling of climbing high and looking far away. There was no other way, so Yang Ping had to take her time to take her up.

Yang Ping and Sisi stood on the top of the building, holding on to the railings and looking at the scenery of the entire city.

The original strong reinforced concrete wall was one meter high. Later, for safety, Sanbo Hospital added a 30 centimeter guardrail. Therefore, Sisi, who was already over 1.5 meters tall, could only look out through the gap in the railing. Yang Ping is not worried about her jumping down.

Sisi was very excited. She had never been to the top of a tall building. She opened her arms and faced the wind, like a bird spreading its wings.

Be careful of getting cold, let me take you to this place, the wind is a bit strong. Yang Ping knew that this little girl had many ideas, but he didn't know why he chose this place to play.

Sisi is not afraid of the wind at all: It's called fresh air, but it's not that the wind is strong. I haven't learned Chinese well, and I stay in the ward every day. Don't you want to take a big breath of fresh air?

If she wasn't so smart, maybe she would be happier. She is just a fifth-grade student. I don't know if she has really faced life and death calmly, or if she is pretending. No matter which way it is, this does not suit her age. She is still a flower bud and should not bear the weight of such a life.

I heard from the cleaning lady that a cancer patient jumped from here, right?

Sisi poked her head to look down, but the walls and railings were very high, so she couldn't overlook the bottom.

Yang Ping was shocked, and immediately took her hand, pulled her back, away from the wall, and confirmed that the distance was safe before answering her question:

That's right, because she can't face difficulties and has reached a dead end in her heart.

Yang Ping was afraid that Sisi would be like this, and in the end he couldn't get out of the dead end.

A sweet smile appeared on the little girl's face, a pure and clean smile that only children and teenagers can have: In fact, if you have the courage to jump, why don't you have the courage to live? I think everyone is destined to die from birth. This is Certain things are like a line segment. It is inevitable that it has a starting point and an end point. The only difference is the length of the line segment.

This is not something that a fifth grader can say, nor is it a question that a fifth grader should think about.

I just feel that there is not enough time and there are still many things that I have not had time to do.

The smile on Sisi's face slowly faded, she looked into the distance and said.

You should believe me. I will go all out. I have already thought of a good way, and it is just a little bit close to success. I said that we will accept you as a student in the future. We have already hooked you up.

Yang Ping encouraged her.

Don't worry, I won't be so stupid, I won't jump. I just came here to experience the feeling of wanting to reach a higher level of clairvoyance. What the ancient poem said is true. I feel like I can see better now. Far.

Sisi stood in the wind, her hair flying in the wind.