I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"A laboratory?" Qin Ge was quite surprised. "Why don't I see it?"

"In the backyard, the front yard is where the teachers live and work." Lin Yao sighed. "The teachers have worked tirelessly over the years, sacrificing so much of their lives."

"He's actually about the same age as Professor Sun, but he looks much older."

"Unfortunately, even after so many years of painstaking effort, he still hasn't been able to achieve a substantial breakthrough."

"He's doing this all by himself?" Qin Ge was surprised again, but quickly found it unsurprising.

Countless people around the world are researching ways to conquer terminal illnesses, but most of them work in teams.

A team, or even the entire research institute, can devote all its energy to researching and solving the problem of a disease, and even with a lot of manpower and resources invested, the results are still minimal. How could Yu Xiangmin, an individual, possibly achieve such a result?

If Yu Xiangmin succeeds, he can be directly deified!

Lin Yao smiled faintly, somewhat forlornly, "Initially, there was a team and a dedicated experimental base, and the country allocated a lot of funding."

"But this research was too difficult, and repeated failures made everyone lose all hope."

"One after another, people applied to withdraw, leaving only a few people of the same generation as the teacher. Later, those people passed away, leaving only the teacher."

"In the end, the funding ran out, and Tunghai University even took back the experimental base and repurposed it for other purposes."

"The teacher was unwilling to give up, so he applied for this small courtyard, transformed the backyard into a laboratory, and moved all the equipment over."

She sighed softly, "Everyone knows that the teacher is highly respected and respected by all, but few people know his hardships."

"Over the years, the professor has been helping the University of Tokyo mentor graduate students, both master's and doctoral students. In fact, he's been recruiting assistants for himself."

"Fortunately, the teachers are highly professional, and the students they teach are all excellent. Although they did not continue their research with the teachers after graduation, they have all shone brightly in their respective fields and achieved remarkable success."

"That's why so many people are desperate to become a teacher's student."

"In recent years, the school has occasionally allocated some funds to the research projects of teachers, but the main support is still donations from alumni, which has enabled the teachers to continue their research to this day."

Qin Ge remarked with admiration, "Professor Yu is truly persistent!"

Lin Yao nudged Qin Ge with her elbow, staring intently at him as he turned his head in confusion. Suddenly, her face lit up with pride. "I'm going to continue my teacher's research until we have results!"

"Are you serious?" Qin Ge was taken aback. "Don't act impulsively. How old are you? Do you know how long the future is?"

"Besides Professor Yu, there must be many other people in the world researching this, but there hasn't been any substantial breakthrough. Could it be that they haven't mastered the subject?"

"It's not that we lack the strength, but rather that the current level of medical technology hasn't reached a point where we can make a breakthrough!"

"I know what you mean." Lin Yao's expression was more serious than ever before. "I didn't act on impulse; it was a well-thought-out decision."

"I know that even if I spend my whole life, the chances of me being able to overcome ALS are extremely slim."

"But isn't that what scientific research is all about?"

"If you don't do it, I don't do it, and nobody does it, then we will stagnate forever."

"As long as you persevere, every small breakthrough can be a step forward. When enough quantitative changes are accumulated, a qualitative change will eventually occur!"

She blinked her beautiful eyes. "Besides, does it mean I'll become immortal if I don't do this?"

"The end of life is death, and no matter what path you choose, it won't change that. I just want to take this path."

After a long silence, Qin Ge asked, "May I go to the laboratory in the backyard?"

Lin Yao paused for a moment, then her starry eyes lit up with anticipation. "Will you walk this path with me?"

"No way!" Qin Ge rejected the idea without even thinking, which was quite a killjoy. "That kind of life is too boring. I don't have your kind of heart."

"I was just curious and wanted to see."

Lin Yao smiled slightly, neither surprised nor disappointed, "Then I'll have to ask the teacher."

When Yu Xiangmin heard that Qin Ge wanted to visit the laboratory, he immediately agreed.

Qin Ge has such strong medical theoretical knowledge, who knows what kind of inspiration he might generate in the laboratory.

In scientific research, 99% of the work is the hard work day after day, year after year, and the remaining 1% is inspiration.

That one percent inspiration is even more crucial than ninety-nine percent perspiration!

Sun Shizheng also became interested and went to the backyard together.

Qin Ge looked at the clean and tidy laboratory and its sophisticated instruments and equipment, but lost interest.

He stopped when he saw rows of neatly arranged transparent cages and began to carefully observe the white mice inside.

"Are these all experimental subjects? How did you manage to make them develop ALS?"

"Through viral vectors," Lin Yao explained immediately, her tone calm and professional. "We integrated the mutated sequence from the genes of ALS patients into the fertilized eggs of mice."

"These mice have a 'time bomb' planted in their bodies from the moment they are born."

At this point, her tone became slightly heavy, "When the gene sequence we implanted begins to be expressed, the proteins and amino acids that can cause ALS begin to be produced."

"Mice usually show typical symptoms of ALS when they are around three months old."

She pointed to the white mouse trembling slightly in the cage, "These are early symptoms."

He then pointed to another cage, saying, "This is the middle stage; its hind limbs are completely paralyzed, and its body can no longer support itself."

"In the later stages, paralysis will spread to the forelimbs, respiratory muscles and even the whole body, eventually leading to death from respiratory failure."

Qin Ge nodded slightly and then asked, "So what is your research area?"

Lin Yao pulled up the gene map on the computer, and a long DNA double helix structure was projected onto the screen. "Look at this site."

"Errors in base pairs lead to the synthesis of proteins with abnormal structures, which act like a toxin, constantly attacking the motor neurons of mice."

"We can now confirm that this protein is the cause of ALS."

"The professor's current research focuses on how to eliminate this protein. If elimination isn't possible, inhibiting its toxicity would also be an option. If successful, it should alleviate or even eradicate the symptoms!"

"Unfortunately, the teacher tried many methods and conducted many experiments, but the results were not significant."

Yu Xiangmin and Sun Shizheng remained silent, waiting for Qin Ge to share his insights.

Qin Ge pondered for a long time, and then an idea came to him: "Since these proteins cannot be cleared or inhibited, why not just stop their production directly?"