godfather of surgery

Chapter 1144 This is a logical problem
After several rounds of meetings and discussions, the Academy of Medical Sciences was finally established based on Yang Ping's suggestion.

According to the arrangements after its establishment, Yang Ping is the president and chief scientist of the Southern Academy of Medical Sciences, and Tang Shun serves as the secretary. He is responsible for managing the daily work of the academy. The major laboratories under the academy have no hierarchical relationship. They are all parallel and independent research units. They are administratively under the leadership of the academy, but they have complete independence and freedom in academic matters. This ensures that the major laboratories are connected as a whole, while also ensuring the independence of the laboratories and preventing academic stagnation.

After the Southern Medical Sciences Academy was established, the staff and equipment remained the same, only the organizational structure changed. Everyone's confidence and enthusiasm immediately increased, and all the laboratories rolled up their sleeves to get to work.

The directors of these laboratories never expected that after the reforms, their original rights would remain unchanged, but their resources would increase significantly. They would have strong support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in terms of both funding and equipment.

However, they also knew that after the reforms, if someone was not capable of serving as the director of a laboratory, they would definitely not be able to survive under the new system and would have to give way to someone who was capable. Therefore, these directors began to devote all their energy to scientific research in order to demonstrate their abilities and avoid being eliminated.

In fact, Yang Ping's decision to establish the Academy of Medical Sciences in this manner was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather the result of careful consideration. He even had a very clear understanding of the basic provisions of the Academy's law.

For Yang Ping, having a super research institute is better, but not having such a large-scale facility wouldn't have much of an impact. The most important aspect of establishing the Academy of Medical Sciences is the transformation of its philosophy and management, ultimately attracting a large number of outstanding talents. It's not about building a few buildings or adding a few pieces of equipment; those are merely icing on the cake.

Even without adding any hardware, Yang Ping is fully confident that he can establish a brand new research institution with the existing dozen or so laboratories.

Once the overall plan was finalized, the remaining details were left to Tang Shun, who was the secretary of the Academy of Medical Sciences and also the secretary of the preparatory committee—tasks he excelled at.

Inspired by Yang Ping, Dean Xia began to consider using Yang Ping's ideas to establish a clinical medical school. However, if he did so, he would have to scrap his original plan and start over.

His original plan was to combine several affiliated hospitals into a powerful group, in which he would hold absolute power. All the affiliated hospitals would form a whole, each with its own position equivalent to a branch hospital, and the president of each hospital would be equivalent to the president of the branch hospital, accepting his unified leadership and marching in a uniform manner.

After Yang Ping's words, he realized that his approach was indeed what Yang Ping called the "elephant approach." This kind of elephant approach is indeed prone to rigidity. He decided to follow Yang Ping's wolf pack approach to build the clinical college, giving full play to the initiative of each hospital and making them independent wolves.
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Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu brought more bad news—after comparing the genes of Tong Yongqian's mother and maternal grandfather, it was finally determined that the X gene carrying the disease gene in his mother did not come from his maternal grandfather, but possibly from his maternal grandmother. In this way, the previously exciting possibility of gene recombination was gone, and everything returned to normal.

Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu hung their heads, looking listless, like eggplants wilted by frost.

"What happened?" Yang Ping asked.

Xiao Wu sighed and said, "After genetic testing and comparison, the similarity between Tong Yongqian's mother's diseased X chromosome and his maternal grandfather's diseased X chromosome did not meet the standard, which ruled out that his mother's X chromosome came from his maternal grandfather. Since it did not come from his maternal grandfather, it must have come from his maternal grandmother. According to this reasoning, his maternal grandparents may have carried the same diseased gene on their chromosomes, which may be due to consanguineous marriage. Later, we investigated this matter further, and Tong Yongqian's maternal grandfather personally admitted that they were consanguineous.

“In that case, everything is normal. Tong Yongqian’s maternal grandfather carries the disease gene on his Y chromosome, while his maternal grandmother carries the same disease gene on her X chromosome. Although this situation is rare, it is in line with the laws of inheritance. Tong Yongqian’s mother’s disease chromosome came from her maternal grandmother and was then passed on to Tong Yongqian.”

Xiao Wu was a little discouraged. He had done so much work, starting with high hopes, but in the end it was all for nothing.

"This is the genetic lineage we have redrawn. As you can see, the complete genetic lineage is now without any problems. It fully conforms to the laws of inheritance, has no suspicious points, and has no logical loopholes."

Zhang Lin presented a genetic pedigree.

Yang Ping took it and examined it carefully. Indeed, it seemed that there was no problem with the genetic lineage. All the previous doubts were clearly explained and the loopholes were filled.

It seems scientific research isn't so easy, and the Nobel Prize is even more out of reach, almost like a dream. Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin lost all confidence and realized how ridiculous their previous thoughts had been.

"Where is the genetic testing report?"

Yang Ping reached out his hand.

Xiao Wu immediately took out two thick stacks of test reports from the backpack next to him.

Yang Ping didn't say anything, but opened both reports at the same time and compared them page by page. Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu helped hold down the open report pages on both sides to prevent them from bouncing back.

After more than twenty minutes, Yang Ping finished reading it briefly and said, "It has been confirmed that Tong Yongqian's mother's diseased X chromosome did not come from his maternal grandfather. The gene comparison on the chromosome matches. But I ask you, can this prove that Tong Yongqian's mother's X chromosome came from his maternal grandmother?"

Why would Professor Yang ask such a stupid question?

Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin stared at Yang Ping. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't want to answer this simple question, which is equivalent to 1+1=1, right?
However, since Professor Yang raised this question, they had to answer it.

"Of course, this is a black-and-white question. Tong Yongqian's mother's genes have been confirmed to be normal XX. One of these two chromosomes came from his maternal grandfather, and the other from his maternal grandmother. There is no doubt about it, right?"

Xiao Wu reasoned.

Yang Ping nodded: "Yes!"

“Then let me continue. This diseased chromosome has been proven not to have come from his maternal grandfather. Since it didn’t come from his maternal grandfather, it must have come from his maternal grandmother. Are there any other options?” Xiao Wu was very sure that his reasoning had no flaws.

Yang Ping put away the genetic testing report and said, "Then let me ask you a question—if the X-ray shows a fracture, and the fracture is very obvious with clear separation of the fracture ends, does that mean the patient definitely has a fracture?"

Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin scratched their heads at the same time, not daring to answer.

Is that even a question? The fracture is visible, and the fractured ends are separated. How could the patient not have a fracture? There must be a fracture!

"Go back and think carefully about the question I just asked you. Come back to me when you've thought it through."

"This is a simple question, but also a very profound logical question!"

Yang Ping reminded them so they wouldn't underestimate him.