Chapter 1532: Chapter 1137: An Unexpected Discovery
Manstein’s laboratory was piled with wine bottles. It had been many years and there was no progress in the experint, with the targets far out of reach.
But now, a zero breakthrough was suddenly achieved. This was the happiest Manstein had ever been, and the only ti he was drinking beer directly in the laboratory.
He didn’t care about the Nobel Prize; he was happy for the progress in his head transplant experint. It seed that the success of the head transplant experint could be realized in his lifeti.
Looking at the neatly arranged wine bottles, he burst into laughter and picked up his phone to dial Yang Ping again.
“Professor, I’ve succeeded!”
You could even sll the black beer through the screen.
“Hmm, congratulations!”
Yang Ping hung up the phone. It seed that Manstein really wasn’t suitable for a chat these few days.
Very quickly, Manstein called again, each ti saying the sa sentence.
“Professor, I’ve succeeded!”
Yang Ping simply blocked him, intending to talk again after he sobered up in a few days.
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“This short hair should belong to his father, and the long hair must be from his mother.”
Little Five mysteriously took a letter from a book. Inside were so hairs stored in two transparent plastic bags, with labels attached to the bags.
“Are you sure?”
Zhang Lin asked.
They were hiding in the training room.
“One hundred percent sure. I asked the cleaning lady to find them after he was discharged. They took turns taking care of Tong Yongqian, and that folding accompany bed was used alternately by his parents. Generally, after a patient is discharged, the cleaning lady will clean and disinfect, so this short hair must be from his father, and the long hair from his mother.”
“This won’t work, if we get this wrong, the experint results won’t be accurate,” Zhang Lin worried.
“Don’t worry, we won’t get it wrong, absolutely not.”
Little Five vowed confidently.
“Honestly, how did you get the hair?” Zhang Lin still wanted clarity.
“Oh co on, don’t ask. Anyway, I can guarantee one hundred percent that this hair is his parents’ and that it was obtained through legal ans. Don’t worry, you’re as timid as a mouse and still want to do big things. Forget it, if you’re scared, I’ll do it myself,” Little Five said impatiently.
“Who says I’m not afraid? What’s the next step?” Zhang Lin imdiately objected.
Little Five said very seriously, “We’ll divide the hair into several portions, then go find classmates from the Nandu dical University Genetics Laboratory. If we find a partner, we’ll conduct genetic testing on the hair and compare the results of the three tests. Perhaps we might discover sothing. If we do discover a flaw in the current biological genetic laws, we’ll hit the jackpot. Do you know?”
Zhang Lin felt a bit disheartened: “I heard from a friend in the Neurology Departnt that Director Xu talked to his parents. The father agreed, but the mother refused. Isn’t it obvious? The child might not be biologically related to his father, and the mother is afraid it will be found out, so she adamantly refused. Otherwise, what mother wouldn’t want her child to get a free test to find the cause of the illness? There’s only one explanation: she has sothing she can’t say. So why investigate? Finding out he’s not biological is aningless to us, just a waste.”
Little Five disagreed: “That’s a fixed mindset. Didn’t Professor Yang say it was only one possibility? There might be issues with the biological genetic laws or other unknown things hidden inside. Without doing genetic testing, how can we be sure there’s an issue with his lineage? We must have a realistic scientific spirit, not just follow others. How does Professor Yang teach us every day? Be realistic! Does his mother’s refusal to test have direct relevance to his lineage? No, it’s just our subjective speculation, which is emotional and contrary to the scientific spirit.”
Zhang Lin felt Little Five made sense and admired him internally.
“I have a classmate in Nandu dical University. I’ll have him find a friend in the Genetics Laboratory to help us with the genetic testing. I’ll treat them to a al then.” Little Five cautiously put the hair into transparent plastic bags and then closed the book.
“You can’t tell anyone about this. What we’re doing goes against the ethical principles of scientific research. Without the consent of the other party, once discovered, we will be criticized.”
“Don’t worry, this is between you, , the heaven, and the earth.”
“You better sew that big mouth of yours shut for this one.”
“Of course! Of course!”
—
Manstein finally sobered up, and he sent the images from his microscope to Yang Ping, who carefully observed their structure.
Indeed, the broken nerve fiber ends were completely repaired with identical cells.
It was like a gap in a wall being perfectly restored with bricks that matched the original structure, so that once restored, the material and structure were identical to the original.
This guy indeed might realize the head transplant experint. In fact, if the head transplant experint could succeed, it also ans that the dical difficulty of nerve damage repair would have been solved, benefitting other forms of neurological trauma or disease, finding a new path to success.
According to the experint results, Manstein’s use of cellular factors from the Spatial Orientation Gene Theory was very inefficient, with a success rate of less than one in ten thousand. Such a low probability seems far from success, but this is a zero breakthrough. Once achieving a zero breakthrough, it is simply a matter of improving efficiency thereafter.
“Professor!”
Manstein finally called with a clear head.
“These nerve fibers of mine must be influenced by the repair factor, right? Not just an accidental natural repair?”
A sober Manstein was a bit uncertain, as he felt success ca too suddenly and he previously thought it might take ten to twenty years to achieve even a small breakthrough.
“I’ve looked, this repair is not accidental. If it were accidental, we could completely use the accident as an analytical object and wouldn’t have been unable to progress for so long.” Yang Ping said as he observed the images he sent.
Hearing Yang Ping’s confirmation, Manstein felt confident.
Alas, his repeated failures in the past left him with a psychological shadow. Now that he saw three successful nerve fibers, he could hardly believe his eyes.
Since achieving the zero breakthrough, he planned to start research on the efficiency of this repair factor in the future to understand why it can succeed and why only three fibers succeeded while so many others failed to repair.
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The secret experint results of Zhang Lin and Little Five were out, and there was no issue with Tong Yongqian’s kinship with his parents; both his father and mother were indeed biological.
However, why did Tong Yongqian not align with his mother’s genetic lineage? How could such an anomaly occur, and how did he deviate from the genetic lineage?
From a biological perspective, heredity and variation coexist, aning heredity has stability, but there can sotis be unexpected occurrences.
This differs from everyone’s initial subjective guess. At first, even including Director Xu, people thought there was a problem with the patient’s paternal lineage, especially as his mother strongly resisted further testing, making many suspect motivations behind the opposition. But now the test results clearly differ from those original guesses, indicating no problem in their kinship relationships.
Furthermore, the source of the hair wouldn’t have any issues. If the final test result determined Tong Yongqian had no kinship with his father or mother, then it could be explained by erroneous hair samples not belonging to his parents.
Given that the test results showed no issue with his kinship relationships, the hair source could not have been wrong.
With no issue in kinship, the problem might be in the genetic law where an unexpected event occurred in the hereditary process.
By studying this anomaly, one might discover sothing new, and Zhang Lin and Little Five are determined to research this issue further, as they are not satisfied with being ordinary.
However, to study seriously, they still need the cooperation of the child and the parents; otherwise, it can’t proceed. Yet his mother clearly did not want to cooperate back then, and now the patient has been discharged, posing a dilemma.
The two discussed and decided to visit Tong Yongqian’s family to understand the situation better, to persuade them, and to hope that Tong Yongqian could accept further examination to clarify the cause of the disease.
Thinking about it, the two of them grew excited and determined to get to the bottom of it.
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