Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

If you understand a little bit, you will find that cancer is quite special as a disease.

The entire pathogenesis process is basically the disorderly proliferation of cancer cells, squeezing the living space of other normal organs, and ultimately leading to the death of the mother.

But in essence, cancer is neither a disease caused by external germs entering the body nor caused by organic damage.

Humans' own powerful immune system cannot recognize cancer cells. The main reason is that the cancer cells themselves are cells produced by the human body itself.

It is the result of normal cell differentiation.

This process of alienation is called canceration.

It's like a machine and program that continues to run in a normal and orderly manner. Suddenly there is a bug, and then it breaks away from the orderly state, and finally collapses in a disordered state.

Putting it into the perspective of macrophysics,

This also seems to be a manifestation of the increase in entropy in the universe - matter moving from order to disorder.

The reason why cancer is born

It seems that there are various external environmental factors.

But these are only superficial reasons, and its essential mechanism of action has never been fully revealed.

Research on cancer is mainly focused on

How to identify and locate cancer cells, and how to kill and inhibit cancer cells.

Research on the underlying mechanism is not non-existent, but progress has always been slow.

Using the example of ‘apple tree’,

Probably because we now know that apples will fall when they are ripe.

But I don't know why this happened.

Abnormal cell division, unlimited proliferation, and canceration may occur.

However, the underlying logic behind abnormal cell division is still unclear.

also,

There is a limit to the number of normal cell divisions.

This largely limits the upper limit of human lifespan.

Cancer cells have no limit to the number of times they can divide.

If you think about it in an exaggerated way, if cancer cells can replace the functions of normal cells, people will live a long life.

Of course, Mo Dao has no such unreliable idea, because this idea itself is a paradox.

He just wanted to see if he could get some inspiration while studying the mechanisms behind cancer.

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In 2014, during the early stages of Mo Dao’s research,

Mo Dao did not start any corresponding experiments.

It only collects all the relevant data about cancer and cancer cell experiments that are currently public, non-public, and can be collected.

These include humans and other types of animals.

Capture all kinds of information hidden in relevant data.

In addition to far exceeding ordinary people's memory and thinking abilities,

The deep and extensive knowledge reserve played a big role in this process.

If other researchers, when conducting some cross-disciplinary research, need to communicate and discuss repeatedly with researchers in another field,

And ensure that the other party can understand the content of their field,

Na Mo Dao is a multi-disciplinary research team, and it is likely to have the strongest research capabilities and knowledge accumulation in this era.

For the same problem, the same string of data.

Mo Dao can obtain some information from multiple fields such as biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.

Some of the information is common and some of it is unique to the field.

As an outstanding theoretical physicist,

Mo Dao's mathematical ability is basically exaggerated.

Facing this complex data, the speed of receiving and processing it is also exaggerated.

…

It took Mo Dao a year to think about it based on the existing data.

Although it is existing data, Mo Dao still got a lot more valuable information.

If you just want to publish a few papers, this step is actually more than enough.

The information obtained was written down, which was enough for Dr. Mo Dao to graduate, stay at Capital University, and obtain a professorship.

But for Mo Dao, this is obviously just the beginning.

April 2015,

Mo Dao began to design further experiments based on the information he had obtained.

The industry generally believes that nature has a natural mechanism to inhibit cancer growth.

Mainly reflected in some long-lived and large animals.

Mo Dao also had a similar judgment on this,

And in the life of Qiusuo Research Institute, although Mo Dao was not very involved, he still heard about it.

The relevant research teams within Qiusuo Research Institute have gone further on this road.

Mo Dao wanted to get more information about the cancer mechanism itself from the opposite side of cancer, the natural cancer inhibition mechanism.

Mo Dao's experiment,

It is mainly focused on some animals that are less prone to cancer in nature.

At the same time, more attention is paid to the more microscopic levels below the cells.

the whole process,

It is to collect data and explore the nature of the mechanisms that exist in these animals to fight cancer.

Throughout 15 years,

Mo Dao is a little busy,

Basically, it is a process of experimenting, collecting data, and then thinking about the data.

Professor Chang, the graduate tutor in this life, paid a little more attention to Mo Dao’s first experiment.

He completely ignored Mo Dao's research work and just allowed Mo Dao to arrange his own research.

However, even if this is an exploration of the cancer suppression mechanism in nature,

Even if it is Mo Dao,

The entire research work also took a long time.

…

In 2016, Qin Huaishi also successfully completed his undergraduate degree and entered the postgraduate level of study.

But he didn't study with Professor Chang like Mo Dao.

The graduate tutor Qin Huaishi followed in this life was still the same as in previous lives.

It is Professor Pu Hanqiao, another second-level professor in the School of Life Sciences. His main focus is genetic inheritance.

In this life,

In terms of research, Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi were able to communicate with each other.

Qin Huaishi, like previous lives, still occasionally mentioned some research ideas and interesting things to Mo Dao.

Most of the time, Mo Dao would not say anything about some of Qin Huaishi's ideas, even if some of them were naive from a professional perspective,

Mo Dao only occasionally expressed his own thoughts based on Qin Huaishi's thoughts.

Just like when Qin Huaishi heard Mo Dao mention his research, most of the time, he just listened quietly.

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18 years.

After studying for graduate school with Professor Chang for almost four years,

Mo Dao is still stuck in the study of cancer mechanisms.

Professor Chang has no objection to this.

After all, although Mo Dao has continued to do the same research, within the past four years, he still published two top publications on some "unexpected products" during the research process.

"…Mo Dao, should you consider graduating this year?"

"I see that you have already gone very deep into the issue you are researching. If you take some time off, write an article and send your graduation thesis, I will give you the doctorate."

Professor Chang was somewhat heroic, at least he was relatively casual towards Mo Dao.

In the office, the two of them had a cup of tea each, and Professor Chang said with a smile,

Mo Dao looked at Professor Chang and nodded,

He just said "Okay."

Professor Chang was stunned for a moment because of Mo Dao's decisiveness.

"Is that so straightforward? Has your research made progress? Is it about to produce results?"

"It's still a little short of that. It may take half a year to a year."

Mo Dao smiled and said,

Professor Chang nodded and did not ask any more questions. He just smiled and said,

"Then it's too early for me to say this. If I had known, if I had waited for you to graduate two years later, I might still be able to benefit from your work in the laboratory here."

Professor Chang just smiled, even if Mo Dao graduated,

Then Mo Dao was indeed his student in this life,

When a student achieves success, his face still shines.