Then he turned his head to the female doctor and asked, "Xiao Li, how’s it going? Any success?"
Xiao Li shook her head.
This little mouse is quite tiny, its whole body is red, smooth and hairless, only about the size of a fingertip—could it be a newborn baby mouse?
"Isn’t it a mouse? Why is it so small?" Zhang Lin leaned forward to look.
"The skin is still red, the whole body hasn’t grown any fur yet. What breed is this?" Little Five asked, puzzled.
Director Pan replied embarrassingly, "Our project is to study the various physiological changes in the hearts of newborn mice under extracorporeal circulation. These mice were born not long ago, so they’re a bit small."
No wonder the intubation wasn’t successful after dozens of attempts—it might not succeed all year long. These clumsy female doctors haven’t undergone surgical training, nor have they done operations under a microscope. How could they succeed in intubation? How many newborn mice must be sacrificed?
"I heard you have specialized microscope training over there, one of the training contents is to attach tails to newborn mice, so I wanted to trouble you for help, see if you can insert a few tubes and make so models." Director Pan chuckled.
"Why don’t you use piglets? That way it wouldn’t be so troubleso," another doctor following behind asked again.
Dr. Xiao Li pouted, "We are now innovatively conducting micro-experints, which shrink experintal space, equipnt, personnel, and funds, saving a lot of resources."
This female doctor looks quite sweet, her voice is also pleasant. The male doctors accompanying began to have glowing eyes, how co they didn’t know there was such a beauty in the physiology research lab before? Everyone squeezed closer.
Female doctors in the science field are indeed rare, although dical female doctors are a bit more common compared to other sciences, they’re still pitifully few. The gender ratio is seriously imbalanced; otherwise, that doctor wouldn’t have so sternly raised the issue just now.
"You’re using such small mice to make models? Is there such a small ECMO?" Yang Ping was very curious, as a real ECMO costs tens of millions. If one were to completely replicate a micro ECMO, imagine how much it would cost. Even with money, it wouldn’t be replicable.
It’s not modeling but replicating a miniature Boeing aircraft—it’s hundreds of tis harder than manufacturing a Boeing aircraft, because it requires making mini engines, all components need to be miniaturized.
"We have a micro ECMO," Director Pan proudly declared, "Xiao Li, take it out and show everyone."
This machine is indeed the treasure of the physiology research lab.
Really exists?
Dr. Xiao Li imdiately took off her gloves, grabbed a miniature machine from the cabinet, roughly the size of a dictionary. Director Pan handed Yang Ping a pair of gloves, Yang Ping put them on and took the micro ECMO.
This thing is very delicate, just like the real one.
"Professor Yang, this isn’t a model, it’s a real machine, which can be normally used, with the internal structure similar to a real ECMO," Dr. Xiao Li said.
"We not only have micro ECMO but also micro extracorporeal circulation machines, anesthesia machines, etc., so we have the conditions for micro-experints. However, intubating mouse hearts is indeed too difficult, the eyes have turned red but not a single success, either can’t insert or it ruptures the vessels." Dr. Xiao Li’s eyes indeed appeared a bit red.
"Did you undergo training for operations under a microscope?" Yang Ping asked her.
She shook her head, "No!"
Yang Ping examined these micro machines one by one under the microscope, then asked Dr. Xiao Li to demonstrate their operation. These weren’t toys; they were genuine micro machines. Where did these machines co from? If many experintal equipnt can be miniaturized or micro-sized in the future, indeed, many experints can be handled on a micro scale; Dr. Xiao Li’s idea is good and very creative.
"Director Pan, who proposed the miniaturized experint in your research lab?" Yang Ping wanted to know.
Director Pan pointed to Dr. Xiao Li, "It was Xiao Li."
"Where did you purchase these machines? These machines have very high technical content, I roughly estimate, their value has already exceeded a hundred million," Yang Ping said.
Director Pan was imdiately startled, "Impossible, these little things are so valuable."
Then Director Pan looked at Dr. Li, who was also very surprised, "Over a hundred million? Impossible, these things are just toys."
"A basic ECMO costs over a million, the advanced version nearly four million. Even if your micro machine has had much simplified internal processing, its technical content is still extrely high, with the value not lower than thirty million. Adding up those few machines, it’s really over a hundred million," Yang Ping said, he really wanted to know where these machines were purchased from.
"Where were these machines purchased from?" Yang Ping asked.
Dr. Li hesitated, troubled for a long ti, her face turned red, as if embarrassed to say.
Director Pan helped her answer, "These were gifts from Xiao Li’s boyfriend, she donated them freely to our research lab. She proposed trying mini experints, which used to require large animals, now, with the aid of these machines, it can be done using mice. I thought this idea was good, so I wanted to give it a try."
"Yes, my boyfriend gave them to for fun. He said if they’re useful, use them for experints; if not, they’re just my toys. I didn’t expect them to be so expensive, nor do I know where he got them from. I really didn’t know they were so expensive," Dr. Li looked very scared, as if she had caused a big disaster.
Oh dear, she has a boyfriend already, and appears to be soone wealthy. The male doctors around started to sigh, just saw a glimr of hope, now it’s extinguished.
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