After the publication of the two papers in dical and Nature dicine, the global academic community was shocked by Yang Ping for the third ti.
Saying "the third ti" is because the shocks from the previous two tis are still vividly imprinted in the mory of every industry insider.
The first ti was the three-dinsional orientation gene theory. At that ti, Yang Ping was an unknown external dicine doctor, fighting alone in a field nobody was optimistic about. On the day the paper was published, the mainstream reaction of the academic community was not congratulations, but skepticism... "This Chinese person’s concept of cell positional sensation has already been ntioned in developntal biology, it’s nothing new." But soon, skepticism turned into silence, silence into follow-up, follow-up into verification, and verification into recognition. When one laboratory after another independently replicated his results, the world had to acknowledge: this Chinese person discovered a completely new biological principle, not just old wine in a new bottle.
The second ti was K Therapy. By then, Yang Ping was already a controversial figure, so said he was a genius, others said he was just lucky. After the K Therapy paper was published, the controversy disappeared within three months. Not because Yang Ping argued, but because verification experints were simultaneously launched by a dozen of the world’s top tumor centers and reached the sa conclusion: K Therapy is effective. Not the kind of "effective" that extends the survival period by a few months, but having a curative effect on certain tumors.
Now, the third shock has co.
Spinal cord injury repair, previously considered an "impossible" field, was quickly opened up by the sa Chinese person. Moreover, this ti, he was not fighting alone, beside him stood a German, a Swiss, six Germans, and a monkey nad M7.
The shock was first reflected in the quick response of Nature and Science.
On the first day after the paper went online, Nature magazine published a lengthy comntary in the news section, titled: "The Paralyzed Monkey Stands Up: Yang Ping’s Theory Once Again Astonishes." The author of the comntary was a senior science reporter of Nature, who wrote at the beginning of the article:
"If there is a scientist, he proposes a theory and wins a Nobel Prize; he proposes another theory and wins another Nobel Prize; now, his first theory has given birth to research allowing a paralyzed monkey to walk again... How else can we describe him? Genius? Too light. Legend? Too clichéd. Perhaps the most accurate word is: Yang Ping."
Science magazine’s reaction was more direct. They did not publish a news comntary, but a "perspectives" article, inviting an unnad Nobel Prize laureate to write. In the article, the Nobel laureate wrote:
"I have worked in this field for forty years. Over forty years, I have seen countless ’major breakthroughs,’ each accompanied by cheers of ’spinal cord injury repair is just around the corner.’ And then, each ended in disappointnt. But this ti is different. This ti, there is a guiding complete theoretical frawork, rigorous primate experintal data, and repeated verification by two independent laboratories. This is not just a ’breakthrough,’ this is the opening of a road."
In the last paragraph of the article, the Nobel laureate wrote a sentence that stirred much discussion in the academic world:
"Yang Ping has already changed the way we look at cells, has already changed the way we treat tumors. Now, he is changing the way we repair nerves. For one person to change one field is already remarkable, to change two is a miracle, to change three... that is the beginning of a new era."
Less than twenty-four hours after these two articles were published, Yang Ping’s email was flooded with ssages from all over the world. There were congratulations, requests for cooperation, requests for original data, invitations to give reports, and even direct questions like "When are you coming to deliver a lecture at our school?" Tang Shun specifically created a folder called "Unreadable," throwing emails that didn’t require imdiate replies into it. Yang Ping glanced at the unread count in that folder, three hundred and forty-seven, then quietly turned off the screen.
"Professor Yang, don’t you want to have a look?" Tang Shun asked.
"I can’t finish reading them," Yang Ping said, "and everything that needs to be said is in the paper, if they have questions, they should read the paper, not ask ."
Tang Shun opened his mouth, wanting to say "but they admire you," but after seeing Yang Ping’s expression, he swallowed his words.
The speed with which the world’s leading laboratories followed up was also astonishingly fast.
In the first week after the paper was published, a neuroscience team from Harvard University announced they were initiating a verification study. Their leader sent Yang Ping an email, which contained only one sentence: "Professor Yang, although we don’t believe it, we will verify it. If it’s true, we will follow up."
Yang Ping replied: "Great! All the data are in the paper, feel free to contact if you have any questions."
In the second week, Cambridge University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and Tokyo University simultaneously announced the start of related research. In the third week, the National Institutes of Health, USA (NIH) listed "Application of Three-Dinsional Orientation Gene Theory in Nerve Regeneration" as a priority funding area for the next fiscal year. This decision took only three weeks from proposal to approval, an unprecedented speed in the history of NIH.
Every morning, the first thing Manstein did upon arriving at the laboratory was not to look at the monkey, not to drink coffee, but to turn on the computer and browse the new papers on Pubd.
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