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Chapter 1085 Super Big Topic

Notify Tang Shun, Lu Xiaolu, Zhang Zhiwei, and you to come with me to the Genetics Laboratory of Nandu Medical University for a meeting. It's an urgent and important meeting. I'm contacting Lin Lan now.

Lin Lan didn't know what special reason Yang Ping had to call such an urgent meeting, but she immediately summoned important members of the laboratory to wait in the experiment.

The reason for holding the meeting in Lin Lan's laboratory was that the main work of genetic recombination of Nk cells and carrier adenovirus needed to be completed by Lin Lan's team. Her team's main work was in the field of genetic engineering.

Soon, everyone gathered in the conference room of the Genetics Laboratory of Nandu Medical University. Everyone was wondering what big thing had happened that made Professor Yang call such an urgent meeting.

After everyone sat down, Yang Ping didn't say much extra and went straight to the point. We were all academics, so there was no need for so many twists and turns.

"We have convened this meeting today because we have made a major breakthrough in our research project," said Yang Ping.

A major breakthrough? The new research phase has not yet begun. NK cells are still being cultured in the laboratory and have not yet been used on patients. How can we talk about a major breakthrough?

Yang Ping continued, "Factor K was discovered accidentally when we were culturing tumor cells in the laboratory. We found it in the culture medium. At that time, we looked for the source and found that there was no substance like Factor K in the human body. We also looked for the reason, but we never found the real reason. I have been thinking about this problem. Now I have a new discovery about this problem. I already have a relatively mature hypothesis in my mind. Since it is a hypothesis, it still needs to be verified by the laboratory."

Has the source of K factor been found? We analyzed it for a long time but couldn’t find the source. We had to give up and leave this problem for later analysis. We focused our main efforts on the research of tumor treatment methods around K factor.

"When we were equipped with tumor cells, it was very likely that a small amount of immune cells were mixed in with the tumor cell samples. These immune cells could not survive in the culture medium environment of the laboratory, or they could not be replenished after death. They finally died and disintegrated, and some fragments of the disintegration remained in the culture medium. Under some unknown conditions, these fragments were recombined and then formed the K factor we see now. This is a hypothesis. In order to verify this hypothesis, we need to set up a new project to conduct genetic analysis on the K factor, and then divide the fragments according to their functions. Then, we will take these fragments and compare them with the fragments of immune cells to see if there are any overlaps. If there are complete overlaps, it means that the hypothesis is valid. Once the hypothesis is established, we will no longer need to focus on the K factor in treating tumors, but can arbitrarily recombine some fragments, such as recombining with adenovirus to carry various weapons of immune cells. In this way, a new weapon to kill tumor cells will appear." Yang Ping briefly introduced his hypothesis. He is going to publish the paper in the journal "Medicine" immediately.

Lin Lan immediately became excited. This kind of gene fragment comparison work was what she was good at. If this project was established, the scale would be quite large, which would be equivalent to a complete and accurate analysis of the human immune cells.

"There is absolutely no problem technically. Leave this job to us as long as there is no problem with funding." Lin Lan took the job on the spot.

There is not much difficulty in the technology, but it is a large project. It requires drawing a gene map, then dividing the gene map into functions, and finally comparing the two to find the same structural fragments.

"Start the project as soon as possible. There is no need for any approval. Just start the project directly. The funds will be allocated from our scientific research fund. You make a budget and we will allocate it to you immediately." Yang Ping instructed Lin Lan.

"Tang Shun, Lu Xiaolu, Zhang Zhiwei, and Lin Lan, four professors, and four laboratories are working together to do a super big project, which is to combine some tumor-targeting factors of immune cells, such as tumor necrosis factor, with carrier adenovirus to form a therapeutic virus that carries immune cell weapons." Yang Ping's main purpose of this meeting was to set up this project. As for the genome project just now, it was only the beginning of this big project.

After hearing this, everyone didn't feel much at first, but after thinking about it carefully, they became more and more interested. Professor Yang really has a brilliant idea.

Previously, all our attention was focused on the K factor. Now, we have used a hypothesis to reveal the reason for the formation of the K factor, which means that we can combine many kinds of K factors in the future.

Everyone got excited when they thought of this. In this way, all the recent topics related to tumors were connected. Professor Yang grasped the underlying logic behind these studies. If the hypothesis is true, then the entire research will enter a new stage with extremely broad ideas. "What can we do?" Professor Zhang Zhiwei said excitedly.

Yang Ping thought for a moment and said, "Once the hypothesis is established, this super-large project will require a lot of carrier viruses. In this project, your main job is to provide carrier viruses, systematically and in-depth study of carrier viruses, and establish a carrier virus system. When we need it, we can arbitrarily select viruses that meet our requirements."

"Understood. I'll start right away." Professor Zhang Zhiwei said without hesitation.

"You should prepare a budget, and I will allocate funds to you. Please be bold in your budget and don't be timid. Our project is very large and it is a huge system project."

Yang Ping warned him.

"I am responsible for further research on the tumor-killing mechanism of immune cells? And the interaction between tumors and immune cells?" Lu Xiaolu offered.

"Yes, these are the tasks you need to do here." Yang Ping agreed.

Tang Shun was a little anxious: "What about me?"

"You should conduct in-depth research on the structure and function of immune cells." Yang Ping handed the last task to Tang Shun.

"There are many tasks, and we definitely don't have enough manpower. We should look for more young PhDs. These people have active minds and are full of energy. Especially those with excellent college entrance examination scores. Try to recruit as many as possible. They will be needed in the future. We should recruit as many as meet the requirements." Yang Ping ordered Tang Shun.

"Understood. I'll take care of it." Tang Shun accepted the order.

"Everyone, take it step by step, roll up your sleeves and work hard. Don't be afraid of spending money. Scientific research is always expensive. Such a large project will definitely be very expensive. Don't be afraid, we have sufficient research funds." Yang Ping was afraid that everyone still had the old inherent thinking and would do small things.

This kind of super-topic cannot be accomplished with small-scale workshop thinking.

"We also need to recruit people here. We definitely don't have enough manpower."

Lin Lan and Zhang Zhiwei also raised their own difficulties and took this opportunity to speak out all of them.

PS: I have been busy these days, so I will start by writing small chapters of more than 2,000 words every day. After I am done with that, I will resume writing full chapters of more than 4,000 words. Thank you!

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