From small clinic to medical empire

Chapter 214 Liu Xiaonan's fresh and refined brain circuit

"drop!"

Zhang Zifan swiped his badge and entered the laboratory.

Haoran's laboratory was not very lively, but now it is even more deserted.

When Zhang Zifan came in, Deng Cong was playing Honor of Kings with Zhai Qiang, and Zhang Zifan didn't say anything.

Biological experiments are like this, running electrophoresis, doing a PCR, or other experiments, it takes half a day to wait.

Of course, you can also use this time to read books to enrich yourself.

However, according to Zhang Zifan's understanding, playing two kings is a more common way of killing time in laboratories across the country.

……

Haoran Biomedical Laboratory has a total of 5 floors.

The 1st and 2nd floors are animal laboratories, the 3rd floor is a cell laboratory, the 4th floor is a small library, electronic reading room and other ancillary buildings, and the 5th floor is a microbiology laboratory.

This kind of design is a little bit like the kung fu pavilion of a big family in fantasy novels.

The higher the experiment, the higher the technical content.

No one has yet reached level 5 of the lab.

Zhang Zifan's laboratory is on the third floor, and Liu Xiaonan's is on the second floor.

Of course, this is just a joke.

Those who study pathogenic microorganisms or viruses must be more advanced than those who study animals, and Mr. Fauci will not be thinking about visiting Liu Xiaonan.

……

When he came to the second floor, Zhang Zifan's heart began to beat.

The animal laboratory on the first floor is just a little smelly.

The mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits raised inside are actually very cute except for their poor hygiene habits.

Of course, it's even cuter when it's decapitated and injected with air needles.

But on the second floor, the situation is different.

The closer he got to Liu Xiaonan's laboratory, the more Zhang Zifan's heart beat.

It's like entering the main altar of the Miaodi Five Poison Sect, where you can always see all kinds of weird things.

Zhang Zifan hoped that Liu Xiaonan had stopped researching human skin flies, but it seemed to backfire.

Through the glass door, Zhang Zifan saw Liu Xiaonan fully armed and wearing protective clothing, carefully marking the writhing bugs.

In some literature, scientists would use their own arms to raise human flies. Fortunately, Liu Xiaonan is not so crazy.

Zhang Zifan knocked lightly on the door, Liu Xiaonan quickly put down the utensils and ran over.

Under the tight protective clothing, Zhang Zifan could only see Liu Xiaonan's big and lively eyes.

She asked happily, "Brother Zhang, aren't you busy today?"

"Fortunately, there are no patients."

Seeing Zhang Zifan nodding his head, Liu Xiaonan invited again: "Would you like to come in and visit my laboratory? Since Big Brother Zhang handed it over to me, I have changed a lot of the layout!"

Zhang Zifan thought, I dare not come in because I am afraid of your arrangement!

But after thinking about it, after I left the insect department to her, I didn't come to care about it for more than half a month, which really didn't make sense.

So Zhang Zifan bit the bullet and came to the changing room, put on a new set of isolation clothes, and walked into the terrifying and mysterious insect laboratory.

……

After I really came in, I actually felt pretty good.

Because those bugs are properly sorted and reared, most of them are still kept away from light, so they can't be seen clearly.

Zhang Zifan felt that instead of entering a laboratory, it seemed like entering some exotic pet store.

However, there are not many rose spiders, emperor scorpions, big red dragons, corn snakes and the like here, but various insects with more research value.

Of course, it is not quite correct to say that it is an insect.

In addition to insects, there are also arthropods of the class Scorpionidae and Arachnida, as well as many annelids and molluscs.

To put it simply, "bugs" in the usual concept are the objects of research in insect laboratories.

In the past, these things were not suitable to be placed in the dormitory or at home, but now Liu Xiaonan has finally found heaven.

Seeing the little girl's sense of happiness leaking out of the protective clothing, Zhang Zifan was quite happy for her.

Being able to turn a hobby into a career is something that is beyond the reach of many people.

And Liu Xiaonan, who signed a good contract with Haoran Hospital early, has undoubtedly realized this dream.

……

Zhang Zifan's good mood was quickly broken.

After walking through a few rooms, he saw a nightmare-like scene.

Those are a few naive guinea pigs whose abdomens have been shaved and then parasitized by human skin flies!

"Brother Zhang, don't be afraid!"

Liu Xiaonan rubbed against Zhang Zifan, expressing encouragement, "The human skin fly is actually far less scary than imagined, as long as it is not infected near the eyes, there will be no problem.

Apart from making people feel sick, they are not harmful to people's health, and they even have some benefits!

When the larvae of human skin flies grow under the skin of animals, they will secrete special antibiotics to prevent the surrounding tissues from being infected and suppurated. At the same time, they can secrete anticoagulant factors so that the surrounding blood will not coagulate. "

After listening to Liu Xiaonan's introduction, Zhang Zifan's eyes lit up, he didn't expect such a disgusting maggot to have such a magical side.

"So presumably, your research on human skin flies is for artificial synthesis, or large-scale collection of this antibiotic and anticoagulant?"

Zhang Zifan felt that he finally understood Liu Xiaonan's intentions.

In today's world, drug resistance caused by overuse of antibiotics has become an international problem.

From the beginning of the invention of penicillin to the present, the concentration of the drug in the injection has increased by tens of thousands of times, but the efficacy of the drug has long been no longer the same.

Under the screening of human drugs, cunning pathogenic bacteria have become more and more tenacious, and even mutated into super bacteria, making it impossible for medical workers to guard against them.

If we can develop a new type of antibiotic with high efficiency and different principles from conventional antibiotics such as macrolides and aminoglycosides, it is possible to win the Forbes list, not to mention benefiting mankind.

But drug development is no joke.

The drug research and development cycle is calculated in units of ten years, and there are countless hurdles to pass. Without billions or even tens of billions of dollars, it is impossible to get through it.

For example, AstraZeneca, a big pharmaceutical company, spent about US$1997 billion on research and development from 2011 to 580, but only approved five new drugs during this period, and the average cost of each new drug was as high as US$5 billion.

The more well-known companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson have an average R&D cost of each new drug ranging from 50 billion to 82 billion.

The unit is also all US dollars!
This method of burning money, not to mention Zhang Zifan, can't afford it, and the big domestic pharmaceutical companies that spend all their time doing nothing but advertising can't afford it either.

So Zhang Zifan was pleased with Liu Xiaonan's ambition, but he still wanted to speak out to dissuade him.

It is best not to be too ambitious when doing scientific research.

however……

"Developing antibiotics and anticoagulants?"

Liu Xiaonan slapped her fist, "Is there still such a way of thinking?"

Zhang Zifan was stunned, and asked strangely: "Don't you think so? Then what is your research direction?"

"Losing weight, of course, is losing weight!"

Liu Xiaonan took it for granted, "European ladies in the [-]th century used to eat tapeworm eggs as a good way to lose weight.

Undoubtedly, as a parasite that seriously endangers human health and may even colonize the brain, tapeworms are extremely harmful to the human body.

Moreover, due to the uncontrollable relationship between the eggs in the body, the weight loss effect of this method is completely unpredictable.

If we could develop a human skin fly directed to feed on subcutaneous fat, their effects would be more immediate and safer.

Brother Zhang, don't worry, since those stupid women dare to eat parasite eggs, of course they dare to plant human skin fly eggs on their bellies.

In order to lose weight and become beautiful, these people dare to do anything!
At that time, we can make a lot of money! "

Looking at Liu Xiaonan who was eager to try, Zhang Zifan was dumbfounded.

He didn't know if there was a problem with his own brain circuit or Liu Xiaonan's brain circuit.

But think about it.

In the end it is the new antibiotics that harvest the money of all mankind;
The new weight loss method only harvests women's money...

But which of the two makes more money?

This is a question worth thinking about.

(End of this chapter)