This product quickly beca popular among tech elites and health enthusiasts due to its trendy concept and seamless experience. The company attracted hundreds of millions of US dollars in venture capital.
Song Zimo also purchased one for trial. In fact, it’s not much different from those health wristbands; it just added a so-called "regulation model" and was comrcially packaged.
"This indicates the market’s hunger," Song Zimo remarked after trying it out. "People are tired of fragnted health indicators and the paradox of feeling unwell when everything seems normal. They crave a tool that can understand their overall physical state and provide integrated advice. Our research explores the principles at the top level, while the market has already begun trying to apply the fuzzy concepts at the bottom level."
Yang Ping found it challenging as well: "Grassroots innovation can spark ideas, but it may also bring risks due to its lack of rigor. The key is that we need to quickly establish more scientifically verifiable system health evaluation standards through solid research, and those overly vague or incorrect products will naturally be eliminated."
After such products appeared in the United States, a dostic company also launched a similar product. Compared with the Arican product, the dostic product appeared to be more advanced and more user-friendly; it could score the user’s health balance status daily, with precision to two decimal places. This made users flock to it, believing that the ability to asure such precise scores must be backed by powerful technological capabilities.
Due to the popularity of Yang Ping’s theory, doctors or researchers from Sanbo Research Institute, who participated in the "system regulation" research, beca key targets of attention for so companies. These companies tried to lavishly invite these researchers to be spokespeople, even if it ant just making an appearance or saying a few words, to prove that their company’s products were true practitioners of the regulation theory. However, none of these researchers paid heed to the invitations; they focused on their own research.
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Research into the T-SEED complex found that artificially enhancing certain functional conformations in cell models derived from APECED patients could indeed slightly improve its efficiency in presenting a limited repertoire of self-antigens. The cultivated autoreactive T cell apoptosis ratio showed a slight increase. The effect was far from enough to treat the disease, but at least it made the step of "regulating immune tolerance induction possible in theory."
However, an unexpected finding shifted so attention.
When studying control cells, the team noticed that when thymic epithelial cells were treated with very low doses of regulators targeting TIM homologous proteins, the functional state of the T-SEED complex also demonstrated positive changes. This change was accompanied by an increase in small molecular signals with immune-regulatory effects secreted by the cells.
This suggests that in healthy systems, there might exist so unknown coordinated communication between the TIM-related identity maintenance system and the T-SEED-related immune tolerance induction system. Perhaps, at a higher level, maintaining self-identity and distinguishing between self and non-self are two aspects of the sa deep logic!"
This potential cross-system link led Yang Ping into deeper contemplation.
Individual health is a complex network, intricately nested and interconnected. Cancer’s identity forgery, autoimmune diseases’ identity misjudgnt, and even the identity ambiguity of aging may all stem from "signal distortion" or "connection failure" at different nodes and levels of this deep network.
Under Manstein’s organization, Yang Ping was invited to participate in a small high-level online summit called "The taparadigm of dicine: Beyond Reductionism." Participants included Nobel Prize winners, top philosophers, basic dical scientists, and clinical dical scientists, among others.
At the eting, an expert on complex systems with a background in physics showcased a model based on multi-agent simulation. In the model, tens of thousands of "virtual cells" had simplified state rules and communication modes. He demonstrated how, when a simulated "regulation signal" was introduced, the system self-organized from a chaotic state to form an orderly structure and how this orderly structure resisted disturbances to a certain degree.
"Life systems are undoubtedly one of the most complex adaptive systems on Earth," said the physicist. "Traditional dicine attempts to intervene using a linear cause-and-effect pushrod model. But perhaps a more effective way is to understand its self-organization rules and then apply a slight guiding field, just as a magnetic field guides iron filings to form patterns. Professor Yang’s team’s regulation theory, in my view, is precisely trying to define and apply this guiding field."
A philosopher of science raised ethical challenges: "If regulation ans having a dialogue with the body system and guiding its self-repair, then who leads this dialogue? The authority of doctors is built on professional knowledge, but the body’s voice — the biological signals — needs interpretation. In the future, will there erge a symbiotic physician who understands dicine, data science, and can comprehend patients’ life narratives, helping find the best regulation path between technical possibilities and personal values? What impact will this have on dical education and doctor-patient relationships?"
Yang Ping responded during the Q&A session: "The future you described is precisely one of our aims. dicine will increasingly beco an art that integrates science, technology, and humanities. Doctors may no longer be the sole decision-makers but rather interpreters, coordinators, and enablers. We need to cultivate a new generation of health practitioners who understand systemic complexity, can converse with data, and can empathize more with patients. This is very challenging but may be the next revolution dicine must face after breaking technological bottlenecks."
During a eting break, a silver-haired elder privately contacted Yang Ping. It was Jas Fitzgerald, a pioneer who, in the 1970s, was among the first to advocate for the "biopsychosocial model" of dicine, now already in his eighties.
"Young man," Fitzgerald said excitedly, "I’ve been following your work for a long ti. Seeing systems biology and complexity science finally begin to substantially impact dical practice, I am very gratified. Back then, we proposed paying attention to psychological and social factors, but struggled with tools to firmly connect them with biological chanisms. What you’re doing now is building that bridge."
He paused, his voice lowering a bit: "But be careful; every shift in dical paradigms faces massive resistance from vested interests and habitual thinking. The healthcare industry, insurance systems, dical education, and even public perception are all built on the old ’war model.’ Your ’dialogue model’ is more elegant and possibly more effective, but it requires the entire system to change the way it communicates, which is much harder than discovering a new molecule."
Yang Ping nodded solemnly: "I understand, Professor Fitzgerald, so what we are striving to do includes not only discoveries in the laboratory but also clinical validation, tool developnt, standard establishnt, and, as you ntioned — changing the way we communicate. This is a multi-dinsional Long March."
The elder encouraged Yang Ping: "Keep your courage, and keep your patience. Scientific breakthroughs are sotis like lightning, but social acceptance is often like the tide, with advances and retreats. But the direction of the tide is ultimately determined by the moon’s gravity, which is the truth and better health outcos. You are becoming a part of that gravity."
As the eting concluded, Yang Ping again reflected on the process of researching system regulation theory.
Initially, he only wanted to solve a specific scientific problem — how the K Factor works. Then it evolved into a theoretical hypothesis — identity verification and system regulation. Now, this hypothesis is tugging at grand topics about the essence of dicine, the definition of health, technological ethics, and even the social system.
With the research growing increasingly vast, Yang Ping decided he needed to narrow it down and focus on the theory itself, leaving the various derivative research for others to pursue.
This subject of the hypothesis itself is also grand. He decided to extend the research beyond the confines of the Sanbo Research Institute; he wanted to complete this research with the entire Nandu dical College Departnt’s institutes and laboratories.
Having sat for too long during the eting, Yang Ping got up to take a walk, passing by so doctors resting and discussing a dostic system regulation wristband in the laboratory.
"Look, my score today is 90, surpassing 99% of users nationwide, despite being so overweight..."
This guy weighs over 200 pounds, with all three highs afflicting him, yet his score is so high.
"Let see; how is your health score higher than mine?"
The other person, who had been an athlete since childhood and still maintains his exercise routine, with a body as strong as an ox, had only scored in the 60s.
"How is your score so high? Why am I so much lower?"
"You need to top up!"
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