godfather of surgery

Chapter 1157 A Performance Without an Audience

Simplifying the structure requires extremely high technical skills, because if the same function can be achieved, the simpler the structure, the lower the cost and the better the reliability.

If miniaturization can be achieved, it will be more convenient to carry and more practical in various clinical use scenarios.

Yang Ping was surprised by Chen Zhi's strong research and development capabilities; he was indeed a rare genius in the field of medical instruments and equipment.

Miniature experiments? What a great idea, quite interesting.

"Is this really worth 100 million?" Dr. Li asked her boyfriend Chen Zhi timidly.

Chen Zhi nodded and said, "I guess so."

The entire room of graduate students was in an uproar. The "toy" he gave to his girlfriend was worth 100 million yuan. How rich must he be?

"I'm sorry, I really didn't know these things were so expensive. Are you alright? I don't know if I've broken anything," Dr. Li said fearfully, worried that the damage to the equipment would cause her boyfriend a huge loss.

"It's okay, these are just little toys I made. We have a lot of these kinds of instruments in our lab, so feel free to use them. If they break, they break. I won't come over and fix them for you," Chen Zhi reassured his girlfriend.

I never expected that my boyfriend would be the chief engineer of Ruixing Group. In the medical field, who doesn't know Ruixing Group? It is now a giant in the domestic medical technology industry and has a very high international status, capable of competing with international giants.

I've heard that Ruixing Group's chief engineer is incredibly talented. He helped Ruixing Group develop many cutting-edge devices, such as some domestically produced experimental software used in schools, and some medical equipment.

Previously, many cutting-edge laboratory devices at Nandu Medical University were locked by the manufacturers and could not be used. Engineers from Ruixing entered Nandu Medical University, cracked these devices, and then implanted domestic software. After more than three months of hard work, they finally unlocked all the devices.

At that time, Chen Zhi often came over to personally oversee and direct operations. It was during this period that Chen Zhi and Dr. Li developed feelings for each other and fell in love.

Yang Ping hadn't been paying attention to Ruixing's development, but he hadn't expected them to grow so fast. It seemed that Huang Jiacai was very capable, and Ruixing Group could become a world-class enterprise under his leadership.

Because of these micro-enterprises, Yang Ping almost forgot the purpose of his visit.

Director Pan almost forgot as well, and immediately reminded Yang Ping: "Professor Yang, do you think you could help us complete the cannulation of the mouse's heart?"

Oh, that's the main point.

"Go and help them out. Ask Director Pan how many models he needs, and each of you make a few for him," Yang Ping instructed Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin.

Of course, the more the better. This is a rare opportunity; doctors at Sanbo Hospital won't have time to help handle these mice in the future. Director Pan immediately instructed the graduate students in the lab: "Bring over all the cages of the mice you have."

"Do you have so many miniature artificial heart-lung machines?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask.

While directing the graduate students to fetch the mice, Director Pan said, “It’s alright, we have a miniature three-way valve. You can help me cut the aorta and vena cava before they branch out, and then insert both ends of the three-way valve into the blood vessels to bridge them. This way, the mouse’s circulation will still be normal. If I want to use it for the lab, I just need to connect the third port of the three-way valve and ligate the distal blood vessel.”

The old man had a well-thought-out plan. Zhang Lin saw that the experimental table was already filled with white mice, at least ninety or a hundred. He intended to have them all taken care of for him at once.

"You want to be intubated completely?" Zhang Lin couldn't help but ask.

Director Pan nodded: "Thank you for your help. I'll treat you to dinner later."

"You're using miniature three-way connectors to connect to the heart's major blood vessels. Aren't you worried about blood clots forming? Blood clots will block the tubes, ultimately leading to circulatory disorders and death in mice." Xiao Wu reminded Director Pan to back down and just make a dozen or so models as a token gesture. "Making so many is exhausting. All these cannulations are done under a microscope."

"Don't worry, please rest assured, professors. We are just about to study the effect of anticoagulants on preventing thrombosis in this situation, so please feel free to insert the tubes. Thank you for your hard work." Director Pan was not about to let them off the hook. The graduate students in the lab had been inserting tubes for so long, killing many mice, and not a single one had been successfully inserted.

Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu sat on the lab bench and began skillfully adjusting the microscope. Compared to these novices, Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu's microscope operation skills were expert-level. The two brothers, who loved to show off, acted like experts and were ready to perform well and bring honor to Sanbo Hospital. Teachers are not just any teachers; they wanted to show them their abilities.

However, unlike the microscopes in the operating room of Sanbo Hospital, these microscopes do not have video recording equipment and cannot broadcast the microscopic operations on an electronic screen in real time. Therefore, no matter how high their skill level is, these graduate students do not know it because they only see them sitting in front of the microscope and do not know what they are doing. It is equivalent to this performance without an audience.

Sighing inwardly, Zhang Lin lamented that such a good opportunity had been wasted.

"You guys know how to suture, right? We'll open the chest cavity and insert the tube later. It would be best if someone could help us suture it. After that, we'll put it back in the cage," Xiao Wu said to Director Pan.

Director Pan was about to ask a few people to help when Zhang Lin said, "Forget it, it's faster if we sew it ourselves. You find a few people to collect the rats. We'll finish one, you can take it and put it in the cage, and then help fix the new one to this mounting plate."

As expected of the surgeons at Sanbo Hospital, their skill level is so high. They handle the entire procedure themselves and don't even need anyone to help with the suturing.

Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin began to demonstrate their lifelong skills, which was much simpler than matching the tail of a newborn mouse. He moved quickly, cutting open the chest cavity, exposing the heart, locating several major blood vessels, cutting the tube, fixing both ends, and closing the chest cavity—all in one smooth motion.

They completed the intubation of a mouse in less than ten minutes. These researchers usually take two or three hours to find a blood vessel. It seems that surgeons are different.

Director Pan watched in astonishment, amazed at how fast it was happening.

"The two professors are working so fast. I have a classmate studying in the United States. Their lab is doing a project that requires mouse heart cannulation, and they can't find anyone skilled in cannulation even with a monthly salary of $20,000," Director Pan said from the side.

"You mean I can go to America and make a fortune playing with rats for others?" Zhang Lin said while inserting the tube.

Director Pan immediately explained, "It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. I meant that Americans are so clumsy, while Chinese people are so dexterous."

"You guys help out here, I'll go back first." Yang Ping left Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu there and left first. He couldn't stay here and watch them perform the act of inserting a cannula into the mouse's heart.

Yang Ping left the Department of Physiology to visit Professor Su, the president of Nandu Medical University. Since he was there, he thought it would be polite to say a few words to Professor Su.

Professor Su happened to be in his office when he saw Yang Ping come to visit him. He was very happy and the two chatted for a while before Yang Ping went back to Sanbo Hospital.
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Since returning from Nandu Medical University, Yang Ping has been pondering one thing: these young students are indeed full of ideas and have great innovative abilities. Isn't he the same now? He has curiosity and a strong desire to explore the unknown world. Therefore, in the field of scientific research, we must maximize the potential of young people.

In order to conduct another test, Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu consulted a lot of materials and redesigned the method for judging the chromosome overlap rate in this situation. Then they analyzed whether this test method was applicable to the current project. If it was not applicable, they might need to design a new method. Fortunately, they were lucky and the current test method could still handle it, but they needed to set a new standard.

After testing, they discovered a startling fact: Tong Yongqian's mother's X chromosome carrying the disease gene came from his maternal grandfather. Gene comparison confirmed that his grandfather's Y chromosome and X chromosome underwent a once-in-a-millennium gene recombination during rapid division. It was this recombination that transferred the disease gene from the Y chromosome to the X chromosome, and then passed the gene on to Tong Yongqian through the X chromosome. The whole truth was revealed.

At this point, Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin's research project officially had a clear starting point. They would publish a case report based on this case, and then conduct in-depth research on the possibility and mechanism of the Y gene and X gene occurring during meiosis.

If they continue to make breakthroughs, they might actually gain a place in genetics; they've managed to catch the tail end of success.

Yang Ping also became interested in this case. He was very interested in the blocking mechanism of the Y gene. What exactly caused the recombination of the Y chromosome and X chromosome in Tong Yongqian's maternal grandfather? What was he missing? What he was missing was exactly what Yang Ping needed to find.

Yang Ping assigned this special case to Professors Lu Xiaolu, Zhang Zhiwei, and Lin Lan, because they each set up a special group to study the gene blocking mechanism of the Y chromosome. They hoped to suppress this special mechanism in the K virus, so that the K virus could maintain a certain stability within a certain number of iterations, thus ensuring the therapeutic effect and safety of the K virus.

Zhang Lin and Xiao Wu also hitched a ride with these people because the team could share some of their findings while researching their project, as their projects had some commonalities.

By leveraging these shareable results, Xiao Wu and Zhang Lin can not only save time, but also legitimately incorporate their findings into their own research projects.

Xiao Wu reviewed his notes and gave a lecture at Nandu Medical University. The response was excellent, which boosted his confidence once again. He decided that he must make some achievements.

Zhang Lin felt a little regretful that such an important opportunity to show off was not given to him, but instead given to Xiao Wu. In fact, if it were him, he would definitely not be worse than Xiao Wu, as he felt that he usually listened to lectures very attentively.

After all, performing with mice at Nandu Medical University is like casting pearls before swine. No matter how hard they try to demonstrate their microscopic skills, the doctors simply can't tell the difference. It's like talking to a brick wall. They even think every surgeon has that level of skill.

Yang Ping took some time to visit Ruixing Group again. Ruixing Group has established many research institutes and has very strong R&D capabilities. They concentrate their research resources on some core, basic and high-tech medical instruments, experimental instruments and so on. These instruments and equipment have long been controlled by developed countries, and it is necessary to invest huge human and financial resources to achieve breakthroughs little by little. There is no way to take detours to overtake them.

In particular, some cutting-edge medical and biological experimental equipment can be considered strategic technologies. Without these advanced devices, many medical and biological experiments cannot be carried out, which seriously affects the progress of medical and biological technology. Ruixing Group has invested huge resources in researching these cutting-edge technologies. These instruments and equipment are the cornerstone of medical and biological technology.
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Dean Xia's reforms are progressing rapidly, and the deans of several affiliated hospitals are very active, trying their best to deal with Dean Xia in hopes of gaining as much power as possible in their power struggle with him.

Several deans and numerous vice deans unanimously agreed that the so-called election of deans by staff was impossible; it was merely a tactic employed by Dean Xia to exploit this situation and seize more power from them.

All affiliated hospitals are under the management of the clinical medical college, which is the first of its kind in the country. The clinical colleges of other medical universities are only responsible for the clinical teaching of students and do not have any real jurisdiction over the affiliated hospitals. The affiliated hospitals are actually like regional lords with a lot of autonomy.

The newly established Clinical Medical College is an institution that truly has the power to manage all affiliated hospitals. Dean Xia wants to establish a management system that can both control and supervise these affiliated hospitals and give them a great deal of freedom.

For example, in terms of finance, each hospital's budget must be approved by the Clinical Medical College Committee, and the hospital's financial situation must also be audited by the Clinical Medical College to ensure that every penny is spent transparently.

At the end of the year, the dean and vice dean will be questioned by all staff members. If anything is unclear or unreasonable, the staff can jointly appeal to the Clinical Medical College and request an investigation. Half of the investigation team must be representatives elected by the staff.

If this system is implemented, all these deans and vice deans will be locked up and behave themselves.

Just as the deans were still figuring out how to play the game, the real staff election for deans began, catching the deans off guard: was this for real?

There's really no way to refute this, because Dean Xia himself is also running for dean of the clinical medical school. If he is elected, he will continue to serve; if he is not elected, he will resign and leave without saying a word.

A selection committee composed of all staff members of the affiliated hospital and Nandu Medical University was formed to organize, supervise, and operate this competitive selection process. Everything was conducted transparently, and there was no room for simulation.

Dean Gu Junhao of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. How could he let the cooked duck fly away? He had invested a lot in the position of dean, and if it was wiped out this time, he would lose everything.