godfather of surgery

Chapter 1142 An Inspiration

Dean Xia spent over an hour trying to hang it up, but Director Lan came over and finished it in a few minutes. The sign was hung perfectly square, neither too high nor too low, and perfectly balanced, without a single flaw.

However, there was only one sign hanging at the main entrance, and the two sides were severely asymmetrical, which made Director Lan extremely uncomfortable. When he left, he would look back from time to time, and that sign would linger in his mind.

The sign will be hung up and covered with red silk. The unveiling ceremony will be held in a few days, and many bigwigs will come. Not only will the leaders in charge of health in the capital come, but also several highly respected academicians from the medical industry will come to show their support.

"Find a few people to take turns guarding this place for the next few days, and make sure those shady characters don't try to tear this red silk," Dean Xia instructed the security captain, who immediately made the arrangements.

"Should we also put up the signs for all the laboratories of the Academy of Medical Sciences?" Director Han suggested.

Dean Xia patted his hair: "I've been thinking about this. You said that hanging a big sign on the left side would be heavy. If we hang all the lab signs on the right side together, it would balance out the weight on the right side. Wouldn't that look more harmonious?"

“It’s delicious too!” Yang Ping nodded.

I used to pass through here on my way to and from get off work, and I was used to the grandeur of the dozen or so signs. Now, there's just one lonely sign, and it makes me feel empty inside.

"Have the signs for those labs been finished? Including those from Nandu Medical University, hang them all here." Dean Xia waved his hand.

The deputy director in charge of logistics immediately reported: "Ready."

He waved his hand, and the security guards immediately took the signs out of the car and began to hang them up one by one.

"Should I go and call Director Lan again?" That graduate student was quite quick-witted.

"Go, go, go quickly!" Dean Xia waved his hand.

"Go up a little!"

Before he knew it, Director Lan was already standing in the crowd. He immediately stepped forward and resumed directing the hanging of signs.
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After several hours of work, the signboard was finally hung up.

Yang Ping returned to his office, washed his hands, and sat down to rest. Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin came running over excitedly; it seemed their research had made progress.

"Professor, are you free now?" Xiao Wu asked.

Yang Ping nodded: "Go ahead."

“The matter is a bit complicated. I asked Tong Yongqian’s mother to understand the situation. His grandmother has passed away. It seems that the loophole you mentioned cannot be clarified. If this loophole is not investigated, the whole research will lack rigor and persuasiveness.” Xiao Wu looked quite troubled.

Yang Ping thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed an obstacle, equivalent to a missing link in the entire research chain."

Strictly speaking, it is unknown whether Tong Yongqian's mother's X chromosome carrying the disease gene came from her father or her mother.

"So there's no other way?" Yang Ping asked them.

Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin exchanged bewildered glances. What other options were there? Tong Yongqian's grandmother had passed away many years ago, and this link in the chain couldn't be filled. "Think again, is there any other way?" Yang Ping pressed.

Their courage is commendable, and they are full of curiosity, able to devote their energy to pursuing unknown questions. This is the kind of spirit needed for scientific research.

"I have a solution. Tong Yongqian's grandmother must have gone to the hospital before she passed away. If there are any pathology slides or similar items on file at the hospital, we can use them for genetic research," Xiao Wu suddenly suggested.

“Yes, that’s a good idea. You’re so smart,” Zhang Lin immediately agreed.

"Why make it so complicated? Why not perform gene sequencing on Tong Yongqian's mother's two X chromosomes and his maternal grandfather's X chromosome, and then compare them? That way, we can find out if the X chromosome carrying the disease gene in Tong Yongqian's mother is his maternal grandfather's. If the comparison matches, it's his maternal grandfather's; if it doesn't match, it's naturally his maternal grandmother's," Yang Ping explained to them.

"Yeah, how come I didn't think of that?" Xiao Wu slapped his thigh and then his head.

"Don't always think about things in a complicated way. In fact, complex problems are simply simple problems combined according to certain relationships. You have to learn to simplify complex problems." Yang Ping felt that they had gotten a bit tangled up in their thoughts and needed to be pulled out of it so that they could maintain a certain level of clarity.

Reminded by Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin, Yang Ping recalled using the solidification ability of the Y gene to modify the K virus, thereby reducing its efficacy and safety.

Professor Zhang Zhiwei had just participated in the plaque-hanging ceremony, and he should still be in Lu Xiaolu's lab. Yang Ping immediately called him, and sure enough, Professor Zhang Zhiwei was still there. He immediately came to Yang Ping's office.

"Professor Yang, is there anything important?" Professor Zhang asked directly.

Yang Ping said, "I recently had an idea. During evolution, the Y chromosome, one of the sex chromosomes, developed a mechanism to seal the genes on it. This mechanism ensures the stability of genes on the Y chromosome throughout the long history of heredity. Our K virus still has an unsolved problem in the laboratory, which is that after the K virus enters the human body, it undergoes iteration, and mutations occur during this process. These mutations often reduce efficacy and increase risks. I'm thinking, could we draw inspiration from the protective mechanism of the Y chromosome to give the K virus a protective mechanism? This would at least ensure the stability of the genes within a certain number of generations, thereby guaranteeing efficacy and safety."

Professor Zhang didn't quite understand at first. He pondered Yang Ping's words in his mind for several minutes before he finally grasped their meaning.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! I never would have guessed that.

Sometimes, the ability to generate inspiration is truly the greatest talent in scientific research. When inspiration is absent, it simply doesn't exist; you're always just wandering outside the door. But once you get a useful inspiration, you immediately push open that door and enter a completely new world.

"Yes! How come I didn't think of this protective mechanism in the Y gene?"

In fact, Professor Zhang had learned about this while he was studying, but he just hadn't connected it with his current research.

It now seems that Professor Yang's greatest ability in scientific research is his ability to generate inspiration from time to time, which often opens up a new world.

"You mean we should study the protective mechanism of the Y gene and then transplant it into the K virus?" Professor Zhang finally understood what Yang Ping meant.

Yang Ping nodded: "Yes! That's what I meant. In fact, geneticists have already done a lot of in-depth research on the protective mechanism of the Y gene. You can discuss it with Lin Lan. We just need to figure out how to conduct transplantation research on this mechanism and connect the two."

Professor Zhang suddenly realized: "Yes, this is not our specialty, but it may be essential knowledge for scholars of genetics."

"Thank you, Professor Yang. Your words today have opened my mind. It seems I'll have to come here more often in the future," Professor Zhang said with a smile.

Yang Ping said casually, "Actually, it's nothing, just an inspiration."