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Chapter 659 Determining the Situation Amidst Chaos (Part 1) (Please Subscribe)
Qu Tangwei, who has done scientific research, knows this very well.

For clinical diseases, not every disease has a specific cell line available for research in the laboratory.

It's not that I don't want to use cell lines for research, but I can't create them due to various limitations.

To establish a cell line for a specific disease, it is not simply a matter of culturing tissue excised from a clinic.

Cell line construction refers to the process of isolating living cells from an organism and culturing them under specific culture media and conditions to create cells capable of unlimited proliferation, thus forming a cell line. Such cell lines can be used to study cell growth, differentiation, function, and the mechanisms of disease.

"Can it achieve unlimited proliferation in principle?" Qu Tangwei asked when Fang Ziye did not reply.

Then, his gaze remained fixed intently on Fang Ziye, scanning Fang Ziye's entire body, paying particular attention to Fang Ziye's expression and eyes.

The ultimate goal and hallmark of cell line construction is to obtain cell lines that can proliferate indefinitely.

This is relatively easy to achieve for some cell types, such as certain tumor cell lines.

However, cell line construction can be challenging for some specific cell types. These cells may be highly sensitive to their external environment and require specific culture conditions and media to maintain their growth and function…

Because of the unlimited proliferation of tumors, culturing them into cell lines is not that difficult.

Fang Ziye shook his head first: "Professor Qu, saying all of them is a bit of an exaggeration. There are definitely many cell lines for various diseases that our team cannot currently construct."

"This one was created by chance and can achieve multiple reproductions. As for whether it can reproduce indefinitely, we have not yet conducted any experiments to verify it."

The two most important characteristics of a new cell line for a disease, whether it is the first or not, are unlimited reproduction and stability.

It can be guaranteed that your cells will remain the same cells even after multiplying for dozens of generations and will not transform into other types of cells.

This cell line was developed privately by Luo Tingzhu and Nie Mingxian. Fang Ziye only provided the ideas and principles, without offering any technical guidance.

"Then can we?" Qu Tangwei suppressed his shock and unease and casually replied.

"Professor Qu, I really can't agree to this question. My time and tasks are very tight right now."

"Furthermore, this cell line wasn't built under my leadership; it was led by Tingzhu from our team. So, Professor Qu, you can go and talk to Tingzhu," Fang Ziye replied calmly.

Qu Tangwei's eyes darted around three times, and his voice became calmer: "Professor Fang, isn't talking to you and talking to Xiao Luo the same thing?"

"But Professor Fang, if you really don't have time, that's fine. I was just mentioning it casually."

It was clear that Qu Tangwei didn't believe his own explanation at all. He thought he was making excuses, which was why he deliberately said that Luo Tingzhu was leading the team.

Your reputation is so overshadowed that Luo Tingzhu and the others have a slightly weaker presence in front of others, right?
Fang Ziye said, "Professor Qu, it really was built by Tingzhu and the others themselves."

"Professor Fang, alright, alright, it's getting late. Why don't you go back and rest first..." Qu Tangwei said.

"Professor Qu, goodnight." Qu Tangwei really didn't believe it, and Fang Ziye was too lazy to explain further, since Fang Ziye wasn't the one who would suffer a loss anyway.

……

When they returned to the villa, Luo Tingzhu was applying a face mask.

It's not particularly late today.

Hearing Fang Ziye's footsteps, Luo Tingzhu said, "Senior brother, Senior Brother Li Yuanpei and the others will be going back soon. Let's get together a few more times before they leave."

It has been a full six months since Li Yuanpei and others were entrusted by Yuan Weihong to come to Enshi.

August is coming to an end, and September will be a brand new month and a brand new semester.

Yuan Weihong's position is secure, and his research has taken deep root. Li Yuanpei and others no longer need to stay in Enshi and can now work full-time.

“My master sent me a message saying that he will also come to Enshi in a couple of days to welcome them back.”

"I wonder if Uncle Shen Tao will come." Fang Ziye replied while pouring a glass of water, and then walked towards Luo Tingzhu.

"Uncle Shen Tao from the Provincial People's Hospital is truly loyal. Even under such circumstances, he still managed to lend his master someone to fight."

It's important to know that in that context, it was Wu Xuanqi who led the team, and behind Wu Xuanqi's team stood Professor Duan Hong, who is now the nominal 'number one' in trauma surgery in Hubei Province!
The situation was unclear at that time, and even his teacher Deng Yong felt extremely flustered, unsure of Duan Hong's intentions. But Shen Tao sent people over directly.

Upon hearing this, Luo Tingzhu turned her head, slightly raising her chin to prevent her face mask from sagging, and said in a slightly lower voice, "Senior brother, next year Senior Brother Xue Cao, Senior Brother Xiong Jinhuan, Senior Brother Li Yuanpei, and Liu Haojiang will all graduate..."

"Professor Shen Tao's doctoral student Tang Cheng will graduate next year, and Lin Luo will soon be in her third year of master's studies. Do you think Professor Yuan can handle all these favors by herself?"

The martial arts world is not just about fighting and killing; it's also about human relationships and social interactions.

The so-called social etiquette is a complex web of relationships that varies from person to person, centered on oneself and based on a certain group of people.

In principle, helping each other should be mutual.

Fang Ziye rubbed his face vigorously: "Yuanpei is alright. I talked to him in detail. Yuanpei wants to get a management position, specifically the roles of laboratory director and logistics officer."

“Senior Brother Xue Cao is primarily an academic, and he just wants to get into the lab. Even if Senior Brother Xue Cao can't stay at the hospital as he wishes, I can still allocate a fixed spot to him…”

"The more troublesome ones are Xiong Jinhuan and Liu Haojiang!"

“They are all professional master’s degree holders, and they definitely want to stay in clinical practice.”

"However, if we're just comparing academic experience, neither Xiong Jinhuan nor Liu Haojiang can compare to Li Yuanpei. Li Yuanpei is actually more suited to clinical practice..."

"I'm not sure whether Li Yuanpei should actually go to the lab logistics department as he planned, or stay in clinical practice directly."

Fang Ziye was in a very difficult position at the moment.

Liu Haojiang didn't have much contact with Fang Ziye in the early stages. He was a student of Associate Professor Chen Fang and was in the same year as Fang Ziye.

Xiong Jinhuan was also Professor Han Yuanxiao's student. Originally, Fang Ziye and Xiong Jinhuan had a good relationship, but due to some of Han Yuanxiao's questionable actions last year, Fang Ziye and Xiong Jinhuan did not have much contact.

Therefore, from last year to this year, it was actually Li Yuanpei who accumulated a lot of research topics and articles under Fang Ziye's guidance. If Xiong Jinhuan were to compete fairly with Li Yuanpei, even if Xiong Jinhuan had some operational advantages, the result would definitely be a complete defeat.

However, after a more objective assessment of Li Yuanpei and Xiong Jinhuan, Fang Ziye also acknowledged that Xiong Jinhuan had better clinical talent.

However, Fang Ziye has no right to decide or control Li Yuanpei's future based on his own opinion.

Moreover, Fang Ziye and Li Yuanpei were friends. Although many of Li Yuanpei's articles were related to Fang Ziye, Li Yuanpei's output was all the result of his own efforts.

Almost all doctoral students' research topics originate from their "teachers," and very few of them are able to obtain research topics on their own.

Therefore, one cannot calculate a person's accumulated knowledge based on the source of their research projects; one can only look at the accumulated output at the moment of graduation.

"So, will Senior Brother Liu Haojiang and Senior Brother Xiong Jinhuan have to find jobs at other hospitals?"

"What I mean is, if Senior Brother Li Yuanpei wants to force me to stay in the hospital?" Luo Tingzhu asked.

“I remember you once said that Senior Brother Xiong Jinhuan was the big boss of both sides in your year.”

The world is constantly changing; a change in one factor can trigger a series of changes.

Normally, if things had gone according to plan, even if Fang Ziye and Li Yuanpei were incredibly stubborn, they would only have been stepping stones for Xiong Jinhuan's future hospitalization.

However, because of Fang Ziye's sudden rise to prominence, not only did Fang Ziye graduate early and stay in the hospital, but even Li Yuanpei, who was in the same academic lineage as Fang Ziye, was able to make Xiong Jinhuan bow down because of the benefits of Fang Ziye's rise.

"I don't know, I'm afraid to think about this question any further."

“Although I have a vague answer deep down, I can’t say it because I’m not their teacher,” Fang Ziye shook his head.

Then he sat down and said, "In the past, when other senior brothers graduated, whether it was Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing, who was very close to me, or Senior Brother Wang Yuanqi and Senior Brother Yan Zhiming, I didn't have any inner conflict."

"Because they are my seniors, and they are from the same year as me, I can sit back and watch them fight without any emotional involvement."

"But now, I don't know what to think about it."

"Forget it, if I can't figure it out, I'll just leave it to fate."

"Let's talk about Tang Cheng and Lin Luo."

Fang Ziye immediately changed the subject: "Tang Cheng, he won't be a doctoral student until after September. He still has two years to accumulate experience. If he takes the remaining research topics back with him, he should be able to gain a considerable amount of knowledge."

“These accumulations are far more beneficial to him than staying by Uncle Shen Tao’s side.”

As for Lin Luo!

"Tingzhu, I think Lin Luo is quite good. Do you think I have a chance to win him over?"

Even an upright official finds it difficult to settle family disputes. In fact, the dispute between Li Yuanpei, Xiong Jinhuan, and Liu Haojiang over whether to stay in the hospital was an internal strife within the family. Fang Ziye felt that it didn't matter who stayed.

Fang Ziye had unconsciously taken sides, so he stopped saying high-sounding words.

It's impossible for a competition among three people to be absolutely fair.

Luo Tingzhu's expression was stiff beneath the white face mask: "I think you'd better not think like that, senior brother, otherwise Teacher Shen Tao might really hit you."

Fang Ziye nodded, his expression serious: "Yes, I've already offended Teacher Shen once before, so it's best not to offend her a second time."

"When did you offend Teacher Shen Tao?" Luo Tingzhu narrowed her eyes.

"It was during a dinner party that Professor Shen Tao asked me to mentor his student, Xiao Guo. That was last October, when I was giving an academic presentation at Zhongnan Hospital," Fang Ziye recalled carefully.

Last October, which was Fang Ziye's last month as chief resident.

Luo Tingzhu smiled and said, "Senior brother, you were very busy back then, and the team was indeed well-staffed. What's there to offend or not offend?"

"Tingzhu, is it like this? I was too careless back then. I didn't really think carefully about what Teacher Shentao said..."

Just as Fang Ziye was speaking, the phone rang.

Fang Ziye's voice stopped abruptly. He picked up his phone and saw that the call was from Professor Du Xinzhan.

"Hello, Teacher Du." Fang Ziye greeted him with a smile and a sincere tone after receiving the letter.

The more Fang Ziye got to where he was, the more he understood Du Xinzhan's difficulties, and his mindset became much less sharp than before.

Du Xinzhan's voice was very urgent and his tone was formal: "Fang Ziye, when can you come back? If you don't come back soon, your trauma surgery department will be in chaos."

"What a complete mess!"

Fang Ziye's breath hitched upon hearing this: "Teacher Du? You mean?"

"Think it over carefully yourself. Now is not the time for you to 'gild' yourself outside." Du Xinzhan then quickly gave a few instructions and hung up the phone.

Du Xinzhan's call came so urgently that Fang Ziye didn't even have time to put it on speakerphone. Fang Ziye's expression darkened, and then he looked at Luo Tingzhu, who was full of curiosity, and said in a heavy tone, "Professor Han Yuanxiao is in trouble!"

"Director Du told me to go back and keep things in order."

The Department of Trauma Surgery originally had three full professors. Professor Dong Yaohui, after his honorable retirement, refused to be rehired and returned to Yishi City, where he died while saving lives.

My mentor was removed from his position as director and ordered to return to the laboratory to "retire" because he helped me graduate early and played dirty tricks on my senior brother Wang Yuanqi!
Professor Han Yuanxiao was originally assigned to the hand surgery department, but with Liu Huanglong's return, he naturally returned to the trauma surgery department to take charge.

It's absurd that a department in such a large hospital as Zhongnan Hospital doesn't have a senior-level official in charge.

"What's going on? Is it another one of those weird things?" Luo Tingzhu's eyes flashed.

Han Yuanxiao had previously targeted Fang Ziye and had a criminal record, so Luo Tingzhu would instinctively lean in that direction.

Fang Ziye shook his head: "It's not about causing trouble, nor is it an economic issue. This time it's his own historical problem."

"Professor Han Yuanxiao has been exposed for fabricating multiple papers, resulting in their retraction... According to Director Du, it's possible he bought his way in..."

Both domestically and internationally, there are numerous precedents of people being dismissed or even expelled for academic misconduct. We are more likely to encounter domestic cases in our daily lives because similar situations abroad cannot be transmitted via the internet.

This is a very serious issue.

Luo Tingzhu's mouth opened and closed, causing the face mask at the corners of her mouth and the tip of her nose to crack and bubble. Luo Tingzhu instantly lost the desire to apply the face mask.

He ripped the face mask off with his right hand: "Then what are you going to do, senior brother? There are still so many things waiting for you to sort out at the sanatorium."

Don't be fooled by how well the team is running now. Fang Ziye is the biggest lubricant. If Fang Ziye really leaves the sanatorium, even their team will fall apart.

Although Nie Mingxian and Liao Jia joked and teased each other, they both knew that Fang Ziye could always step up and support them when things got tough.

Fang Ziye's eyes narrowed slightly in an instant.

"Academic misconduct, historical issues."

Immediately afterward, Fang Ziye's expression turned serious, and his tone became cold: "I roughly know what's going on!!"

"This is an open conspiracy targeting the nursing home; there's no way to counter it!"

"What?" Luo Tingzhu's expression stiffened slightly.

“Tingzhu, after you came, I should have told you that we have Professor Gong Jiahe in our trauma surgery department, whose technical level is also very, very high.”

"But he left in April this year because a senior section chief in his unit injured his hand and he had to go back to lead the department."

"Around the same time, my teacher was reported."

"Just when our team was doing well, Professor Han Yuanxiao was exposed for having his previous papers retracted, and now he is facing the prospect of being dismissed..."

"I absolutely cannot stand idly by."

Everyone has a place of origin, and everyone has parents.

The same applies to professions.

Fang Ziye could certainly stay in the sanatorium, but he also had his own origins: Zhongnan Hospital.

Fang Ziye didn't choose to come to the sanatorium because he disliked Zhongnan Hospital, but because he found himself 'isolated' and turned into a plaything, which naturally made him unhappy.

"Senior brother, what about you?" Luo Tingzhu looked flustered and didn't know what to do for a moment.

She's not good at handling these kinds of problems.

Similarly, Fang Ziye was not good at it either.

Even if you're not good at something, you have to face it and find a solution.

Fang Ziye checked the time; it was already 10:40 PM.

But no matter how late it is, this matter must be resolved.

"Tingzhu, go take a shower and go to bed first. I don't have any missions lately, so I have to go out again." Fang Ziye said as he started to straighten his shirt in front of the mirror.

He was going to see Dean Chen Song.

From Luo Tingzhu's perspective, Fang Ziye has indeed been very well-behaved lately. Apart from participating in online discussions and offline pre-operative discussions, he has not gone to the laboratory or operating room and has been resting his hand.

Therefore, Fang Ziye has ample rest time.

Luo Tingzhu nodded without saying a word, afraid that her worries would affect Fang Ziye's mood.

Before leaving, Fang Ziye said to Luo Tingzhu, "Tingzhu, while I'm still calm, remember this sentence, and you may need to use it to advise me in the future."

"That's right. Dean Chen and Song may fall, but the sanatorium and research institute will not fall."

"To take it to an even more extreme point, both Chen Song and Chen Guangbai will die, but the sanatorium and research institute will continue to stand. After all, so much money has been invested here, it can't just be for show."

Upon hearing this, Luo Tingzhu trembled with fright.

That's certainly a clever angle.

"This?" Luo Tingzhu began to shiver.

"I'm going to see Dean Chen Song," Fang Ziye said before leaving.

First it was Chen Guangbai, then Chen Song, and now it's Fang Ziye. Fang Ziye still needs to inquire whether anyone else has encountered a similar experience.

If so, then the other party's purpose is very clear: they are targeting Chen and Song.

Moreover, all of these plans were designed to deal with Chen and Song, not to target the sanatorium and research institute.

Fang Ziye left, and Luo Tingzhu was a little scared, but after a while, she quickly ran to the bathroom to wash up...

After washing up and wiping her face, Luo Tingzhu carefully picked up the phone, hesitating whether or not to make the call.

She hesitated for a good ten minutes before finally letting it go.

……

What Fang Ziye didn't expect was that as he was leaving the villa area, Wu Xuanqi was also "arguing" with someone on the phone.

“Master, the deed is done, and we’ve already chosen our side. It’s too late to extricate ourselves now.”

"I have no way out!"

Wu Xuanqi's voice then turned into a gentle smile: "Master, I have already enjoyed the corresponding benefits since I chose to become a spy."

"Dean Chen and I are old acquaintances, and he is also a benefactor in my life. I cannot forget his kindness."

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye remembered that Wu Xuanqi seemed to be the biggest traitor, having collaborated with 'other sanatoriums' before coming to the Laien City Sanatorium.

Then he betrayed the other party.

This implies that the methods used by Dean Chen Song and the Enshi Sanatorium are essentially no different from those used by the other party; neither is particularly aboveboard.

However, he had no access to these methods, and Dean Chen Song had not given him any corresponding tasks.

To put it bluntly, people who use such methods are all cunning, just to varying degrees.

"Brother Qi, you're out for a walk too?" Fang Ziye stopped and waited for Wu Xuanqi to approach.

Wu Xuanqi then noticed Fang Ziye. Near the entrance of the villa area, under the incandescent light, Wu Xuanqi's conflicted expression became even clearer.

Wu Xuanqi nodded: "My big trouble is here. I need to go to Dean Chen Song for help."

"It's so late and you're not at home hugging your wife, where are you?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye smiled wryly and said, "I also have some minor troubles on my end. I'll go and ask Dean Chen Song for advice."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xuanqi's brows furrowed instantly: "A minor trouble? What minor trouble?"

"Never mind, let's talk in the car, we're in a hurry."

"Dean Chen is not in his yard right now, but in another villa in Enshi." Wu Xuanqi had already inquired about Chen Song's whereabouts beforehand.

After Fang Ziye and Wu Xuanqi got into the car, Fang Ziye recounted what had happened at Zhongnan Hospital.

Wu Xuanqi said, "What's the trouble? You'll get a promotion and a raise when you get back."

"I'm the one whose scalp is tingling!~"

"A whole nest of fishy stench."

"Ziye, do you remember when I mentioned that when I was in school, someone hit the wrong person and beat me so badly that my scalp bled and I developed retrograde amnesia?"

Fang Ziye nodded.

"Yes, that person was locked up, but he's out now. When he went to a family gathering, his whole family was gone."

"Which is more troublesome, your problem or mine?" Wu Xuanqi said in the most joking tone, but it was the most unsettling thing he could say.

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye's scalp tightened instantly, and he looked at Wu Xuanqi.

He knew that Wu Xuanqi always did things in a rather unconventional way, and was very clear about his grudges and favors.

He wasn't going to let Wu Xuanqi suffer in silence.

This family has ruined his future. Now he has the power to retaliate. What if he uses a particularly cunning way to get revenge?

Wu Xuanqi can do it, and he might do it.

"Damn it, even you don't trust me."

Am I really that much of a failure?

"Ha! ~ Ptooey!" Wu Xuanqi rolled down the car window and spat out a mouthful of saliva.

(End of this chapter)