godfather of surgery

Chapter 1228 That’s it?

After the entire Southern Metropolis University system of research institutes and laboratories was formed into the Academy of Medical Sciences, each laboratory achieved financial freedom, something they could never have dreamed of before.

With sufficient funding, everyone is able to put their ideas to the test, because the Academy of Medical Sciences has no requirements for results, such as publishing papers, etc., as long as your money is used for scientific research.

There are all sorts of birds in a big forest, and of course, there are a few people who want to take advantage of the situation and make some money.

This is impossible. The Academy of Medical Sciences does not conduct extensive technical reviews of research projects, meaning that research projects are freely approved. However, the management of funds is extremely strict. All research funds are transparent throughout the entire process and are subject to multiple supervisions. In particular, the foundation's dynamic audit is very professional and rigorous.

Every month, the project leader must publicly disclose the whereabouts of every penny online. If this is not done, or if the published data is questionable, or if someone reports it, the foundation's auditing team will conduct a rigorous audit.

This audit team will work with professional researchers like Yang Ping to audit whether your money is being used reasonably and whether you are subject to investigation and questioning.

This money is for your scientific research, not for anything else. Since you are going to use the money for scientific research, you must accept this kind of strict supervision.

As long as the researcher does not violate any rules, there is no need to worry. Such strict supervision will not affect his normal work at all. Only those who have something to hide and are dishonest will be afraid of such strict financial supervision.

In addition to the foundation's audit team, a top-tier third-party professional accounting firm also conducts regular audits of the funds, and will continue to investigate any suspicious data.

That's not all. The foundation has also established a whistleblowing system. Whistleblowers can be anonymous or named. Every whistleblower will be investigated. If the amount involved is found to be true, the foundation will give a portion of the money to the whistleblower as a reward, no matter how much it is.

The allure is astonishing; it practically mobilizes everyone's enthusiasm. If someone dares to do something wrong, those around them might report them for money, or someone might even pay out of their own pocket to investigate just to win the reward.

Actually, this management system wasn't Yang Ping's idea. How could he know everything by himself? It was a supervisory system designed by a top-notch professional team. In some developed countries, there are already mature scientific research funding management systems. They simply modified this system to suit the current state of scientific research in China.

Management is a science, and a profound one at that. Good management can unite people and enable everyone to play their best role, while poor management can lead to disarray and various internal conflicts.

A few days later, Yang Ping checked the system space and was surprised to find that he had already found the optimal formula. There was actually an element of luck involved. When you use exhaustive methods to test formula proportions, good luck can lead to a quick solution, while bad luck can result in a very long wait. It seems he was quite lucky this time.

The new formula fully achieved its intended goals, with the induced new bone completely filling the space occupied by the "bone cement," providing a perfect replacement. In this way, it provides mechanical support in the early stages and achieves the biological function of fracture healing in the later stages, making it a perfect bone cement.

If I give this recipe to my father-in-law, he will definitely be very happy. Yang Pingping didn't pay any dowry when she got married, so this can be considered a gift for my father-in-law.

After leaving the system space, Yang Ping wrote down the formula from memory. He thought for a moment, what should he say if his father-in-law asked how he knew the best formula so quickly? He couldn't possibly tell him that he obtained it through experiments in the system space.

Yang Ping carefully analyzed the formula and compared it with Professor Su's formula and experimental results. Since there were already results, it wasn't difficult to deduce a reason from them. After analysis, Yang Ping found the unsatisfactory parts of the experimental results and then fabricated a set of reasons that could make sense to him.

Folding the recipe neatly and putting it in his pocket, Yang Ping wanted to send Professor Su a WeChat message, but seeing that he hadn't left work yet, he knew Professor Su must be very busy lately. However, with such good news, it didn't matter if he was busy.

Yang Ping sent the WeChat message, and the other party immediately replied: "I'll be back after get off work tonight." He meant he was going back to Yang Ping's home.

When Yang Ping got off work, Professor Su was already playing with the child. Xiao Su was also surprised. It wasn't the weekend, so why were her parents coming to help take care of the child? They usually only came on weekends.

Mrs. Su said, "Your father said he didn't have anything to do today, so he came to see the children."

"Yes, I have some free time today," Professor Su said.

Yang Ping knew his father-in-law's purpose in coming. He could have sent the message via WeChat, but it was inappropriate to do so because it involved keeping the formula confidential. So Yang Ping and Professor Su discussed that they should not send it via WeChat. Originally, Yang Ping wanted to send it over, but Professor Su insisted on coming over, since he could see his grandson anyway.

Professor Su didn't mention it, nor did Yang Ping. Professor Su kept playing with the child, while Mrs. Su prepared dinner in the kitchen.

Yang Ping chatted with Professor Su. When Xiao Su was not in the living room, he quickly took out the folded paper from his pocket and stuffed it into Professor Su's hand. Professor Su immediately took it and put it in his pocket. Then he pretended that nothing had happened and the two continued chatting tacitly, looking like spies exchanging information.

When Xiao Su came out, they were still chatting. Professor Su's face showed no unusual expression; everything was so calm and composed.

After dinner, Professor Su and his wife went back to their home on Shuangsha Island.
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The next day, Professor Su was unwilling to waste any more time. He wanted to see if the formula that the genius had given him could actually be used. After all, it was a conjecture, and conjectures and reality often deviate from each other, sometimes even being completely unrelated.

The test experiment was simple: to prepare the new bio-bone cement according to the formula. The laboratory had a large stock of the substances that make up the bio-bone cement. In order to verify the formula, Professor Su personally took charge. He had not personally conducted laboratory work for a long time. Usually, these specific tasks were completed by his doctoral and master's students. He was only responsible for the research planning.

President Su is personally conducting experiments? The doctoral and master's students in the lab widened their eyes. Yes, he is personally conducting experiments.

I personally took out chemical substances from various chemical reagent bottles, weighed them on a balance, mixed the substances together, and then went through a series of experimental steps.

Could it be that Professor Su was dissatisfied with their usual work? Thinking of this, the doctoral and master's students in the entire laboratory became uneasy.

They observed Professor Su's expression, which was extremely serious, so serious it seemed to drip water. This further convinced them that he was dissatisfied with them and was using this method to teach them how to conduct experiments, what academic spirit truly is, and what constitutes rigor.

All the doctoral and master's students finally realized the seriousness of the situation. One of Professor Su's most favored doctoral students cautiously approached and asked, "Professor Su, let's go."

Professor Su didn't even look up, his tone extremely stern: "Go sit down to the side, I'll do it myself."

Oh no, it's confirmed now that Professor Su is angry.

Has everyone been a bit lazy lately, dragging out experiments, and Professor Su isn't satisfied?
None of the students dared to approach; they could only watch from a distance, waiting for Professor Su to finish the experiment and calm down before giving him a lecture. Having not conducted experiments themselves for a long time, some procedures were still unfamiliar. For example, they had to think about how to use certain equipment before they could actually use it; they couldn't apply it skillfully immediately.

Fortunately, although Professor Su doesn't usually conduct experiments himself, he still has the basic skills, so he just works a little slower.

Some people started sending WeChat messages to urgently call back those brothers and sisters who had just temporarily slipped away from the lab. They were all called back and sat together to wait for a scolding.

Finally, the new bio-bone cement was completed. Although the laboratory product was a bit rough, it didn't matter.

Professor Su took out a vial of the matching mixture for the bio-bone cement. He needed to rest for a moment and mentally review the next steps and parameters.

Because if the following operations are not handled properly, it will affect the observation of the experiment. Of course, Professor Su has only prepared the biological bone cement. This is only the first step of the whole experiment. Later, the bone cement will be trial-produced in a sterile workshop by the cooperating bone cement company. Then, these bone cements will be used to conduct experiments on animals. Finally, we will need to observe for several months to see if it can be completely replaced by new bone.

"Why are you all sitting here? Don't worry about me, just do what you're supposed to do!" When Professor Su took a break, he looked up and saw all the doctoral and master's students in the lab standing in a row. Even a few students who usually slack off were standing in the crowd. The lab had never had so many students together before.

"What's going on?" Professor Su asked one of his doctoral students.

The PhD student forced a wry smile: "Professor Su, we know we were wrong."

The PhD student knew that Professor Su was being sarcastic, so he deliberately asked them a question in return.

"Do you know you're wrong?" Professor Su asked. He thought the students were referring to the formula. The formula had never been able to completely replace bone cement with new bone, so it wasn't wrong, just imperfect.

Professor Su nodded: "Yes, I'll tell you all about it when I'm done with my work."

Professor Su meant that once he finished his work, he would tell them about the new formula and let them begin animal experiments with it.

Sweat beaded on the students' foreheads. They were sure they were going to get a scolding. Whether they stuck their necks out or not, they might as well take the beating. Professor Su was usually very gentle, but he could be extremely strict when he wanted to be.

Professor Su rested for a while and continued the experiment. He mixed the bone cement with the liquid and stirred it. Slowly, the bone cement changed from powder to liquid, then slowly, the liquid became like glue, and then it became like dough.

After the bone cement hardened, Professor Su used a special machine to test its hardness. The hardness was much less than that of bone cement made with the previous formula, and was about the same as the hardness of normal human bone.

He continued testing the parameters of this bone cement. The elastic modulus was slightly higher than that of human bone, which was the perfect parameter, closest to the normal physiological parameters of the human body.

From the outside, the pore structure is much denser than before, and the walls between the pores are also much thinner. Theoretically, this density of pore structure should result in a much higher rate of replacement by new reptiles. However, whether it can achieve 100% replacement still needs to be verified by animal experiments.

Professor Su cut it open and observed its cross-section, discovering that the porous structure of the entire bone cement was also perfect, making it ideal for new bone to crawl and replace.

Although Professor Su is not sure whether the new bone can completely replace biological bone cement, he is certain that the bone cement made with the new formula is much better than the original.

"Everyone come over here," Professor Su said, taking off his gloves, washing and drying his hands.

Everyone lowered their heads and crowded around.

"Find some chairs and sit down, I have something to say to you," Professor Su said.

Everyone scrambled to find chairs to sit on, and those without chairs had to stand. Everyone was mentally prepared to receive a series of stern reprimands.

Professor Su personally conducted the experiment, which shows how dissatisfied he was with them. Perhaps some of them would not be able to graduate or would have their graduation delayed, so everyone was uneasy.

Many people's minds were racing. Professor Su is usually gentle and tolerant, so who could have made him so angry? It must be something serious.

Moreover, Professor Su usually has a good temper, so you can't tell anything from his face no matter how big the problem is. Even if the sky were to fall, he would probably still have a gentle smile on his face.

"Everyone's here today, perfect timing. Let me tell you about a breakthrough in our experiments. These past few days, I've had a private conversation with Professor Yang from the Academy of Medical Sciences about the bottlenecks we've encountered. He helped us analyze the experiments and modified our formula. I've just formulated a new bio-bone cement using our lab's preparations, and it looks promising at first glance. It should be much better than our original bone cement, so I've decided to use this new formula for animal experiments to see how much it induces new bone to replace the original bone cement. I estimate it will be significantly better, but the exact percentage is hard to determine at this stage," Professor Su said slowly.

Why isn't this a reprimand?

Everyone looked puzzled, especially some of the newcomers who wondered: Is this Professor Su's reprimand? Is a reprimand really this gentle?
Professor Su did not intend to keep the formula given to him by Yang Ping, nor did he give any ambiguity; instead, he truthfully stated the source of the formula.

"What, are you listening?" Professor Su thought these people seemed rather dull.

One of the PhDs immediately said, "We're listening. We'll arrange animal experiments right away."

This is the new formula. You should use this new formula for your experiments. We will conduct animal experiments and observe for several months to see what the final replacement rate will be.

Professor Su handed a piece of paper to his doctoral student, then got up and left.

It was a false alarm for everyone. That's all? That was terrifying!