However, Yang Ping immediately negated his thoughts.
He was very interested in this case from Langnaife Company, but as a surgeon, he had an extraordinary sensitivity to safety.
Unfamiliar non-public medical organizations and a surgery performed on a hospital ship in international waters could easily lead to ambiguous traps.
"I’ll think it over!"
Yang Ping lightly tapped his fingers on the desk, he must remain cautious.
The skin expansion technique is merely a mature "induction formula" they have mastered. The "induction formula" regarding stem cells is Yang Ping’s main research topic at the moment. Yang Ping has already glimpsed the way through it, why not try his induction theory using this technology.
The theory summarized from the experiment is verified through reverse experimentation.
The brilliance of Langnaife’s new technology is not in cultivating stem cells into scattered skin cells, but in treating the entire patch of skin as an organ, and conducting overall expansion. This induction technology is a step ahead of other stem cell cultivation technologies.
Most other stem cell researchers are stuck at cultivating countless individual target cells, using these cells as "ink" in combination with special scaffolds, to print out the three-dimensional shape of an organ. But it only looks like the organ in shape not substance.
Another approach, some teams use gene editing technology to cultivate organs in pigs and other animals, after gene editing, they prevent rejection between these organs and human organs, and then transplant them to humans. For example, the team at the University of Maryland in the USA has successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human being. This approach is more manageable than 3D organ printing, after all, it’s easier to cultivate an organ than to print one.
It’s easier to cultivate an apple from a seed than to assemble an apple using artificial technology.
Because of the skin expansion technique, Yang Ping’s scale is tipping towards natural cultivation, rather than 3D printing.
Scientific experiments are just : constantly correcting one’s own path in the process of exploration.
If skin expansion technique is cracked and its secret revealed, then wouldn’t it be possible to cultivate organs such as the liver, kidney, and heart using the same technique outside the body?
Take the liver for example, a small piece of liver tissue can induce an entire liver, what a tempting prospect.
Clearly, neither Manstein nor other scientists at Langnaife company have unlocked the secret of organ-level induction. They just made some breakthroughs in experience and managed to expand the simplest skin.
If they had genuinely discovered the secret, Manstein would not have abandoned this topic but continued to support spinal injury repair research with this technology.
Yang Ping decided to go to the System Space Laboratory and use experimental models to study this issue and eventually uncover the mystery of skin expansion outside the body.
This is more challenging than cultivating skin cells with stem cells because it not only involves cultivating cells but also the spatial building of cells and the real connection between cells.
Hearing that Yang Ping changed his mind, both August and Robert were quite disappointed. Based on their knowledge, the skin expansion technique outside the body can undoubtedly be called a model for stem cell clinical application, but surprisingly, Professor Yang remained indifferent.
Robert hadn’t given up, and August also hoped Yang Ping would change his mind.
They genuinely wanted Yang Ping to participate in this surgery. It would not only allow Yang Ping to gain strong support from Langnaife but also help him expand his network in the world’s top academic circles.
Yang Ping just waved his hand without saying a word.
Disappointed, Robert and August had no choice but to leave Yang Ping’s head office.
In the doctors’ office, an intern was answering the phone: "Doctor Wan, our department’s Doctor Wan who is responsible for consultations? Oh, Doctor Wan Baolong."
The intern hung up the phone and then turned to the group of young doctors who were buried in work and said: "The Neurology Department just called and said that the patient that our department’s Doctor Wan was supposed to see has completed the required X-ray exams as per the request. They hope that Doctor Wan could spare some time to help look at the X-ray. Who is Doctor Wan?"
This intern wasn’t new here and was quite familiar with the Comprehensive Surgery Department, but he had never heard of any Doctor Wan.
Comprehensive Surgery Department has Dr. Song, Dr. Xu, Dr. Zhang, Dr. Lu
You could even say they have five doctors.
But they don’t have Doctor Wan nor do they have a doctor named Wan Baolong.
"Could there have been a mistake? Maybe it’s a doctor from Orthopedics?"
Someone asked skeptically.
Another standardized training student who had just transferred from Orthopedics said: "They don’t have a doctor named Wan Baolong either."
"No mistake! They spoke very clearly, Doctor Wan Baolong!"
The person who had answered the phone was sure that he hadn’t misheard.
At that moment, Zhang Lin walked in and began looking for his pen: "Have you seen my pen? It has an IV sticker on it where the brand is written."
It was a Montblanc brought from Germany by August. How can it disappear all of a sudden?
At that moment, the phone rang again. After the intern answered the phone, he looked at Zhang Lin in confusion and said: "Teacher Zhang, a female doctor from the Neurology Department said that Doctor Wan Baolong’s pen was left in their office, remember to pick it up when you go there."
The well-known Zhang Lin, the director of Sanbo Hospital’s Intelligence Department, was now being called Wan Baolong?
The doctors in the office immediately figured out what was going on, and some couldn’t help but laugh.
When Zhang Lin visited another department for a consultation, he would sign the consult note with flair which would be tough to decipher if you were not used to it. Probably after the consultation, his Montblanc was left there, and the clever female doctor from the Neurology Department recognized Doctor Wan Baolong from the IV sticker on the pen.