Chapter 838: Medical Academic Genius Chapter 835

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Protagonist:

Fang Ziye

Early morning, 1:30 AM.

Fang Ziye felt his eyelids tightening, yet he still patiently finished reading a portion of the key data others had found.

At Fang Ziye's side, Hu Qingyuan and Liao Jia stood apart, their gazes drifting intentionally or unintentionally toward Fang Ziye.

Even Song Yi and Hu Qingyuan, the two of them, dared not be certain that the electrical current signals they had found were correlated with the electrical signals inside the spinal cord.

At a time like this, the Big Boss had to step out and make the call.

To judge whether these things were worth pursuing further — if the direction was wrong, then no matter how much time, effort, and funding were spent in the wrong direction, it would all be wasted.

In the team, the person everyone trusted most, with the highest research level, was Fang Ziye.

Song Yi stroked his chin, deep in thought; he sat at the computer, scrolling through the data in the document, conducting his own careful assessment.

In the team, he served as the "spokesperson" for neural electrical signals; even including Fang Ziye, the person with the highest knowledge reserve in this area was still him, Song Yi.

Different trades are like different mountains.

At Hu Qingyuan's side, Li Qixi sat properly on a stool, looking exceptionally restrained; her small head looked around, appearing especially apprehensive and "ignorant."

The former Li Qixi still felt her talent was high; at least compared to most peers, she could find some confidence.

However, after meeting Chen Xixian and being recommended by Chen Xixian into Fang Ziye's research group, she felt she had suffered "discrimination," looked down upon by Fang Ziye and the others.

Even when Li Qixi wanted to curiously observe the core project Fang Ziye was conducting, Fang Ziye didn't give her that opportunity.

After much difficulty going through several months, Li Qixi completed the preliminary work for joining the group, and in August she could finally openly come to the core base.

Once she entered the research group, Li Qixi was bewildered...

She discovered that the projects conducted here were completely different from what she had learned in the lab; cell culture, ordinary cell experiments — none of those were done by Fang Ziye's students; they were all basic grunt work done by the "engineers" in the lab.

People like Liao Jia, Nie Mingxian, Hu Qingyuan, Song Yi, and others in Fang Ziye's team simply looked down on ordinary cell culture and simple animal models using cells...

After learning for two months, Li Qixi thought she could finally show her skills, but she discovered she had been shackled with even heavier fetters.

Liao Jia asked Li Qixi: "Do you know how to make animal models?"

Li Qixi: "Ah?"

"Oh!" Liao Jia left.

Nie Mingxian asked her: "Xiao Li, do you know how to transplant blood vessels?"

Li Qixi: "Ah?"

Nie Mingxian comforted her: "It's fine... take it slow."

When Li Qixi followed Hu Qingyuan and Song Yi, she found that every word the two discussed she recognized, but once those words combined, they became her cognitive blind spots...

Transduction and measurement of biological neural signals and electrical signals... do textbooks have this stuff...

Li Qixi flipped through undergraduate, resident physician, and many professional textbooks, but couldn't find corresponding content; only by searching literature did she find fragments of this research direction.

There was simply no systematic content available for learning...

Li Qixi had been in for several days and only learned a few dozen term definitions, limited to just term definitions.

Hu Qingyuan and Song Yi simply had no time to give her popular science explanations; they were all busy with their own detection experiments.

Li Qixi's task for many recent days was just moving things, fetching reagents, plugging in power, finding materials, taking notes...

What helping out, what doing what she could — none of it had anything to do with her.

Li Qixi wanted to help, wanted to prove herself.

But after wandering around the research group, she discovered there wasn't a single person she dared "provoke."

Whether core members or affiliated members of Fang Ziye's research group, she "couldn't compare" to any of them.

Those from the Spinal Cord Injury Research Group who came to help were either Associate Professors or Top Professors; even the Dean of Zhongnan Hospital was a team member...

When Li Qixi was in a daze, Hu Qingyuan suddenly called out: "Li Qixi, find the data printed the day before yesterday for us."

"Oh, okay..." Li Qixi hurriedly snapped back to attention, then took small steps to the document storage area, and based on the date Hu Qingyuan mentioned, found the compartment and clamp where materials were stacked...

Early morning, around 2:10 AM, Fang Ziye let out a long breath of relief.

Then he raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist: "Elder Brother, Qingyuan, well done, you guys are too awesome."

Song Yi heard this and was delighted; he bumped hard against Fang Ziye, overjoyed: "Is there a chance?"

"There should be a chance; this correlation is very high. The time domain between muscle contraction and electrical signals is very close. Although there is some time delay, we must consider the inherent conduction impairment of spinal cord injury."

"In clinical practice, we also encounter some patients who clearly know what they want to do and can do it, but their reaction is extremely slow."

"Maybe it's not that their brain reacts slowly, but that after the cerebral cortex transmits the command, there is a certain conduction delay."

"Electrical signal conduction inside the spinal cord should have some slight differences from the electrical signals of electromyography."

"Of course, if we want to describe such electrical signals very cautiously, we may need to measure the electrical signal conduction patterns in the spinal cord region of animals."

"Moreover, we may also need to measure the intracellular operation patterns and signal conduction of cells in the gray matter region of the spinal cord."

"This falls back into basic physiology again! ~"

"The anatomical structure inside the gray matter region of the spinal cord is, after all, slightly different from the axon form of nerves..."

"This is a big project, very, very big. And we have already found the correlation."

Song Yi understood quite thoroughly; he raised his head slightly and pondered for a few seconds before replying: "That is to say, what we are measuring now may not only be usable for paralyzed patients caused by spinal cord injury, but also for other spinal cord injury patients?"

"Including but not limited to acute spinal cord injury?"

"Of course! ~" Fang Ziye was very certain.

"The electrical signal conduction pattern we measured is a relatively basic signal transduction; it doesn't have much correlation with what kind of pathogenic etiology it is."

"It is the foundation."

"All disease types based on this may all rely on this signal transduction mode!" Fang Ziye was truly very happy.

If that is the case, the understanding of ALS in the future may also not be that difficult.

The disease type with a form and endpoint comparatively similar to ALS is spinal cord injury.