godfather of surgery

Chapter 1229 Okay

Yang Ping's experimental results in the system space showed that the new bone induced by this new formula of biological bone cement could completely replace the original bone cement in about three to four months. He just didn't tell Professor Su about this result.

Professor Su was unaware of this result. He has only prepared the new biological bone cement. In fact, the composition is still the same as before, but the proportions of several components have been greatly changed. This is the case with many substances; once the proportions change, the properties also change drastically.

For example, some alloys have vastly different properties depending on the proportions of their constituent metals or non-metals.

After Professor Su left, the graduate students immediately gathered around to examine the new bone cement. Professor Su had said that it was Professor Yang Ping's suggestion, and Professor Yang's name was legendary in their minds; he was a symbol of genius. They wanted to see how good the new formula Professor Yang had given them really was.

Everyone gathered around the bone cement, observing it carefully. Judging from the cross-section, the porous structure was more evenly and densely distributed, which was more conducive to the creeping replacement of new bone. The strength was not weakened by the increase in pores, but rather became stronger.

Based on the analysis of various parameters, the new bone cement is undoubtedly far superior to the previous one. A genius is indeed a genius; a single suggestion can change the biological bone cement so much.

After their initial scare, they were eager to conduct animal experiments to see if this bone cement could completely replace the biological bone. The ultimate goal of this experiment was for the new organism to completely replace the biological bone cement. Generally speaking, it is very difficult, almost impossible, for such an experiment to achieve its ultimate goal.

Creating this kind of bio-bone cement is already very difficult. After it is created, it is usually improved by later generations, and it takes ten or twenty years of improvement to reach the ultimate goal.

Therefore, Professor Su and his graduate students did not expect that this new formula of bone cement could achieve 100% new bone replacement, but they speculated that it should be able to improve the replacement rate significantly.
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Morris felt that his physical condition was much better than before, really much better. It wasn't just a subjective feeling; some of the indicators of his physical condition also began to improve. Previously, these indicators had been deteriorating, but after undergoing K treatment, they began to show improvement. Although the time was short and the changes were relatively small, as long as it was moving in the direction of improvement, that was hope.

Now, Maurice frequently travels around the hospital to understand how it operates and develop a hospital management model to help improve its efficiency. He has made this a research project, and he's not doing it alone; he's brought in several professors to work on it. Of course, the others are in the UK, and they communicate online every day.

"I heard that a young girl has been cured?"

During afternoon rounds, Maurice asked the attending physician, who nodded: "That's right, this is the first patient they've cured using K therapy."

“I’ve been hearing this news at the hospital these past few days, and it seems it’s true,” Maurice said.

"Do you understand Chinese?" the attending physician asked him.

Even if there were discussions in the hospital, they wouldn't be in English, would they? He doesn't understand Chinese, so how could he possibly hear them?

Morris gave an awkward smile, unsure how to respond, because the news had been told to him by his doctor friend Milton, not something he had overheard. He simply didn't want to betray his friend, so he made up an excuse.

"You'll see this paper soon, but it should be published in Chinese in the journal *Medicine*. If you're interested, you can take a look yourself," the doctor told him.

"Chinese journals?"

"Yes, Chinese journals!"

"Medicine"? Maurice didn't know this journal. It wasn't surprising that he didn't know it, because the journal was only popular in the medical community. Others would never know about it, especially since it was a Chinese journal.

However, Dr. Milton had mentioned this journal, and he knew that many of the papers he had read before were translated into English by scholars, but he did not know that those papers came from a Chinese journal called "Medicine".

"You can understand Chinese, so your Chinese must be pretty good. You can try looking at that paper later," the doctor told him.

Morris nodded. He was now wondering if he should try to learn Chinese, but he wasn't a medical student. If he were, he would definitely work hard to learn Chinese. How could he possibly let go of such a good journal, which contained the interim results of the K therapy research?

“I’ll give it a try,” Morris said.

"If you need, I can send you a physical copy of the journal, but you can also log in to the journal's website anytime. I can give you a membership number to log in and take a look." The doctor assumed he actually understood a little Chinese, so he spoke to him in Chinese, and at a relatively slow pace.

But Morris simply replied, "Okay."

"Do you want the print journal or a membership to the online journal?" The doctor thought he understood.

“Okay!” Morris nodded again, repeatedly saying “okay, okay.”

This is what Milton told him: when learning Chinese, start with a few words: 好 (hǎo, good), 在这里 (zhèlǐ, here), 那里 (nàlǐ, there), 不 (bù, no), 多少 (shuǎodǎo, how much?), 谢谢 (xièxie, thank you). Milton said that relying on these six words can handle many situations.

"Then let's have the print journal. I'll bring it to you later." The doctor noticed that he always agreed.

Morris said, "Okay!"

"Okay, I'll bring it to you later," the doctor said, and then left the ward.

Mosley couldn't understand what he was saying, but as he watched him leave the room, he said, "Thank you."

The doctor said, "You're welcome."

After the doctor left, Morris checked the time; it was morning in England. He immediately dialed his friend Milton's number.

"Do you understand Chinese?" Morris asked anxiously.

Milton said confidently, "Of course!"

He has been studying Chinese recently and feels that his Chinese is already quite good. Once he has mastered Chinese, he wants to join Yang Ping's WeChat group and that online forum and become a member of this academic organization.

“Great! Is there any way to learn Chinese quickly? I want to learn Chinese in three months, is that possible?” Morris thought. He had learned French in about three months, so Chinese should be about the same. “Three months?” Milton frowned on the other end of the phone.

“Yes, three months. I hope I can read Chinese papers in three months,” Morris said.

Milton shook his head: "Forget it, you should just give up. Even if you have three years, you might not be able to do it, let alone three months."

"Three years?" Morris was a little discouraged.

He found Chinese to be easy; after spending a day learning five key words, he was able to go to the bakery alone to buy bread. Pointing to the bread he needed, he said, "This one!"

The boss said, "Okay."

He asked, "How much?"

The shopkeeper said it would cost twenty yuan, and he immediately said, "Okay." Then he took out his phone and had the other party scan it, and the transaction was completed very smoothly.

He navigated around the area with just a few words, encountering almost no resistance. Now Milton says it takes three years to learn Chinese—how is that possible? He learned French in just three months, proving he's a language genius.

“No, Mr. Milton, you must be mistaken. I only need three months. You wait and see. I’ll learn Chinese in three months.” Morris believed that Milton’s inability to learn Chinese in such a long time was due to his lack of language talent, and he, Morris, would never do such a thing.

"Okay, good luck. Chinese is more profound than you think," Milton said, and hung up the phone.

Soon after, his attending physician brought him a copy of a medical journal, an original Chinese journal with neat, square characters that were pleasing to the eye.

Let's start with this journal. Mosley is going to create a miracle and learn Chinese in three months. He's a language genius. It took him three months to learn French and three months to learn Spanish. He believes he can learn Chinese in no more than three months.

He downloaded a translation app on his phone and started using it to read Chinese journals.
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The laboratory is highly efficient, and the second phase of the K-therapy research has begun—the search for or creation of more K factors.

To find more K factors, we must thoroughly study the origin of K factors. K factors were originally discovered accidentally in the laboratory, just like the discovery of penicillin.

In order to study Sisi's tumor, Yang Ping took a lot of her tumor cells for cultivation. These tumor cells were used as research subjects. One day, he suddenly discovered that many of these tumor cells had died, which was originally an extremely common occurrence.

It's not unusual for tumor cells in the lab to die, for example, due to changes in the culture environment or the introduction of anti-tumor drugs. Some drugs may not be very effective in humans, but they are very effective in the in vitro laboratory environment.

Other factors besides medication, such as increased temperature, can also lead to tumor cell death. If the temperature control of the incubator gets out of control, it can cause tumor death. Hyperthermia is a method of treating tumors.

Yang Ping did not treat death from cancer as an ordinary event, but instead conducted a meticulous study, screening out each of the factors one by one, and found that none of them were the cause of death.

He examined the dead and living tumor cells under an electron microscope and finally discovered that the tumor cells died through apoptosis.

Following this line of thought, he discovered a new protein factor in the nutrient solution used to cultivate cells. This protein factor had a completely new structure and was not found in the nutrient solution. Was it mixed in or produced by the cells themselves?

Yang Ping extracted this factor and then placed it together with other tumor cells, which surprisingly reproduced the result of tumor cell death.

This matter greatly excited Yang Ping, and he immediately conducted in-depth research on this factor, which eventually became Yang Ping's K factor.

At that time, Yang Ping focused his main efforts on applying Factor K to the clinical treatment of tumors in order to treat Sisi, and did not spend much energy on studying the origin of Factor K.

After injecting Factor K into the human body, he discovered that this substance simply could not pass through the human immune system. Even if a few of them did pass through, they could not enter the tumor through the capillary walls.

That's why adenovirus was later used as a vector. And once it was used, it turned out that adenovirus and factor K worked really well together. So he collaborated with the virology and genetics labs at Nandu Medical University to modify adenovirus with factor K. After several improvements, the current K virus was formed.

K-therapy is now very effective and safe, and all that's needed is continuous iteration. He began to study the true origin of the K factor.

Where does it come from? Why does the K factor exist?

There's an old saying: "Where a venomous snake dwells, there's an antidote within seven steps." While this saying lacks scientific basis, logic, and concrete evidence, it illustrates a philosophical principle: in ancient terms, there's mutual generation and restraint; in modern terms, there's always a shield for every spear.

The spear and the shield always go hand in hand; for example, the development of missiles inevitably leads to the development of anti-missile technology.

The discovery of penicillin was similar. When Fleming returned to the lab after his vacation, he observed a strange phenomenon in a petri dish that had been exposed and contaminated with fungi: most bacteria were growing normally, but no bacteria were growing near a certain fungal colony. It seemed that the fungus had secreted some substance that killed and inhibited the growth of the original bacteria.

Fleming then cultured the fungus and found that its secretions could indeed kill certain bacteria, so he named it penicillin after the fungal tribe.

Is the same true for factor K? Could it be that a certain bacterium or other microorganism contaminates tumor cells in a culture medium, and that microorganism can secrete factor K?

Another possibility is that the tumor cells themselves secrete factor K. If so, things get interesting. It would mean that these tumor cells can secrete cytokines to commit suicide under certain specific conditions. Does this mean that every type of tumor cell has this ability?

This was a very interesting thing, and Yang Ping became more and more curious. Although his own ideas were a bit far-fetched, he just liked his own far-fetched ideas.

He has kept the original tumor cell specimens. In order to recreate the original scene in the future, he also used a special freezing method to preserve some of the specimens.

Yang Ping thought that the K factor couldn't have appeared out of thin air. It was either produced by the tumor cells themselves or by external microorganisms that were causing the contamination.

Yang Ping planned to pursue his research along these two lines. He shared this idea with Tang Shun and Lu Xiaolu, hoping they could also consider other possibilities. In any case, if they continued this research and found the source of Factor K, they could certainly use the mechanism from that source to extract Factor K from other tumors.