Great Power

When Zheng Jianguo was speaking, his eyes swept over Fiona's face, who was scalded. This 18-year-old girl had typical European and American female characteristics. Her height was at least 1.78 meters tall, but she was born compared to her tall figure. She has a delicate face, and this one has the most fashionable big wavy hair nowadays. Fortunately, she did not come here in professional attire, but in the uniform of the Mayo School of Medicine.

Intern, that is at least the third year of medical students, just referring to Walton’s previous statement, maybe the fourth year is almost the same, ignoring the provocation hidden in the other’s blue eyes, but Zheng Jianguo’s heart is about the medical school He sighed again when he set the conditions for himself. He didn't expect to enjoy the privilege of being a tyrant in the country, and he would be able to enjoy it in the United States.

When Zheng Jianguo looked at Fiona, the latter was also looking at the super "student bull" from the East with her long eyelashes. Although Walton said that she can almost pass the STEP2 exam now, she still has something in her heart. To be afraid of.

After all, even in the Mayo School of Medicine, which has the title of Medical Mecca, there may not necessarily be one who can pass the STEP2 exam in advance every year-that requires all the credits of the second year in the first year. It is possible to skip a grade to participate in the hospital internship in the second year, and get the best internship credits in the general practice in the first year before taking the STEP2 exam.

This is almost impossible task!

This product can pass STEP2 in advance because of the privileges issued by the school!

If he also has his privileges--

Unfortunately, I didn't find Helicobacter pylori!

Harvard Medical School also used this privilege to snatch Zheng Jianguo away.

With many thoughts flashing in her mind, Fiona couldn't help losing her temper with this privilege. At first, Mayo gave him the same conditions. She looked at him with delicate eyebrows, just to listen to him. When he spoke, he started to say: "Is it about gastric cancer?"

"It's cancer. Isn't it an optimistic outlook for fighting cancer today?"

Since this is the first time that Zheng Jianguo has spoken at such a large-scale conference, especially the medical conference in his original field, he put on the customized equipment when he came, single-breasted blue fishbone The three-piece tattoo and the color matching Oxford shoes, and the hair that has not been taken care of the whole winter are combed back with glue, and it also shows the sharpness of the non-three-dimensional features: "My speech is aimed at the current The biggest difficulty of cancer, Fiona, what do you think is the biggest difficulty in conquering cancer—"

"There is too little money—"

Hearing the implicitly provocative question from the other party, Fiona subconsciously said it and then looked at Walton and Kafran, and saw two more familiar meeting directors appear next to her, so she continued: "Now NIH The amount of money allocated every year seems to be a lot, but imagine that 400 million U.S. dollars is divided among hundreds of projects in dozens of research institutions. This is not evenly divided, and there are more or less—"

The United States launched its battle against cancer in 1971. It was only two years since humans landed on the moon. The United States was the time when pride exploded. So it was the first year after the National Cancer Act was enacted. It allocated 230 million U.S. dollars. After eight years of growth, this figure reached 470 million in 1979 last year. Almost 2.7 billion U.S. dollars has been thrown in in eight years.

America is so rich!

This was Zheng Jianguo’s first reaction after he got to know it. The second reaction was that so much money didn’t even make a splash: “No one would think it’s too much, especially for researchers like us. It is normal to generate returns.

As far as I know, since 1971, the combination drugs that remove blood cancer belong to the previous therapies. The remaining result is the tamoxifen approved by the FDA the year before. This is not a cancer drug, but a drug. Medication to prevent breast cancer recurrence.

When it comes to cancer prevention, billions of dollars have been spent in seven or eight years. In my opinion, this is not as great as the use of statistics in the research on the correlation between cigarettes and lung cancer. Now everyone Know that smoking is the main cause of lung cancer."

"It's just that statistics is not a medical category—"

Fiona said something nonsense, and then when he saw Walton and Kafran next to him looking together, a huge voice came from all directions: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am— "

"The meeting has started, let's take a seat."

A huge voice echoed in the venue, and Kavlan and Walton returned to the front row of their association. Since cancer involves many majors in the medical field, even if the cancer society that organized the meeting is not an official academic Organization, the attendees who attended the opening ceremony also reached the scale of more than 1,000 people, and the buzzing venue was quiet for a while.

The opening of the conference took a few minutes, followed by the introduction of the guests and guests of the conference. Not to mention the three leaders of the American Cancer Institute, the vice president of the American National Institutes of Health also arrived. Zheng Jianguo was surprised that Hafdan Mahler, Director-General of the World Health Organization, had also arrived. Only then did he realize the energy of these unofficial organizations. Of course, it also reflected the contacts of American doctors from the side. Zhongguo listens to a large series of doctoral titles-

Had it not been for Zheng Jianguo to learn about these people through the cancer battle before he came, he would still be unable to guess the identities of these people. Fortunately, after a long introduction, he changed his personal speeches. The content of the introduction was only platitudes, and its essence It is the direction in which the money allocated by NIH is spent, and what progress has been made——

Zheng Jianguo doesn’t care about the destination of these funds and research. After this year and a half of contact and study, he now has a clearer understanding and knows that the molecular biology that currently plagues many researchers here is still in the initial stage of ignorance. , Although the double helix of its DNA molecule has been discovered for more than ten years, but by this time it is still near the door.

Nucleic acid separation and purification have been discovered, and the success rate of nucleic acid molecular hybridization experiments is so low that the success rate of nucleic acid molecular hybridization experiments is too low. As for the following cloning technology and gene library, let alone see the flowers in the fog, at this moment, the whole thing is black .

DNA sequence analysis is not a new topic, but the expression of exogenous genes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells has not yet been touched. As for the in vitro gene amplification technology, it is still being held in the laboratory of Qi Province Medical College. The difficulty of this technique still has to be convinced that Ye Minde can find thermophilic bacteria.

In order to cope with the STEP2 exam, Zheng Jianguo has not searched the relevant papers in the library. Now it is rare to come out to attend the conference as a relief. Just listening to it, I don’t know if the air conditioner is too warm or the sleeper has his eyes. I slept in the soft seat until there was a surge of power next to him. When he woke him up, he listened to what the loudspeaker was saying: "——In the past year, we re-examined the digestive system, especially It is Helicobacter that exists in the acidic environment of the stomach. The discoverer Zheng Jianguo named the Helicobacter Helicobacter pylori based on the conclusions drawn from the study on the Helicobacter site——"

Rubbing his eyes and smiling at Cavran apologetically, Zheng Jianguo found that Fiona behind Walton's seat was staring at Shuang Shui Lingling with big eyes, and she couldn't help subconsciously blinking her right eye. Then came his voice: "Today, Dr. Zheng Jianguo-this, isn't he studying in medical school?"

In a formal occasion such as a conference, the name of the identity will not be added to the job well-known to the people, such as the several deans who attended the meeting on the stage, but distinguished by the degree of the person being introduced, so it becomes almost The previous Dr. Dumping opened.

However, the medical doctor is not the same as the doctors in other majors, but has a special name of MD. After graduating from the medical school, you will get this degree with a clinical direction. As for research doctors in other disciplines, PhD is used.

So in terms of degrees in the medical field, MD is a doctor of medicine, so a clinical doctor of medicine is ready to set foot in the field of scientific research, and after passing the assessment, will become a unique MD and PhD doctorate, according to Chinese It is a medical scientist: a doctor and a scientist.

This is also the reason why Massachusetts General Hospital will give him a 35:15 hour time allocation per week. The meaning behind it shows that this agreement is not a simple emergency inpatient training project, but is integrated into scientific research projects. This is also a condition for the Massachusetts General Hospital to attract him to join.

All medical schools in the United States enroll less than 20,000 medical students each year. However, on a national scale, this kind of joint training program that integrates residents and scientific research has only 500 students per year.

So faced with such a fragrant condition, Zheng Jianguo accepted it without even thinking about it, so he became a glorious Xinzha resident, but Kafran, who got the news, was submitting it to the conference. When I made the list, I didn’t even think about adding an MD after his name, but I didn’t expect that this joint was now faulty: "I haven't got my diploma yet."

"Sorry--"

Kafran's face changed slightly and he exchanged glances with Walton, who quickly got up to the podium and didn't know what he was muttering. When the host showed a surprised expression, he smiled: "Wow Oh, Zheng actually passed the STEP2 exam ahead of time, so let us congratulate this super schoolmaster from the mysterious east, Zheng, please come up. Have you not got your diploma yet?"

When he was awakened from sleep, Zheng Jianguo also unbuttoned his suit, revealing the vest and shirt inside to make himself more casual, he heard the host greet him, and he got up and buttoned the button. When he arrived at the speaking stage, he smiled and said, "Yes, Dr. Ruffer, I haven't got my diploma yet—"

"That's good, then I still have a chance to attend your graduation ceremony, gentlemen and ladies, it makes me jealous to see his such a young face, so let's leave it to the young Zheng, Zheng Jianguo from the mysterious east. , The discoverer and verifier of pathogenicity of Helicobacter pylori——"

Ruofer, with a bright forehead, wore small glasses and withdrew his gaze from Zheng Jianguo's face, and then turned to the black crowd under the stage to say that the latter also shook hands with Ruofer in the fierce and roaring applause. Shi Randian stood in front of the crowded stage, nodding to the fierce applause from the audience: "Thank you, thank you!"

After looking in three directions as a tribute, Zheng Jianguo said: "Gentlemen and ladies, it is a great honor and honor to be able to participate in this meeting. I am Zheng Jianguo, from Yuquan, a mountain province in the far east. In Shanxian County, I never dreamed that I could come to the United States and come here to face the number one killer of mankind, cancer, together with everyone here!

As the greatest enemy of mankind, the history of cancer is so long that it cannot be traced back. It is only confirmed based on known information that this number one killer is not unique to humans, but is found throughout all multicellular life forms. This killer has appeared since the single cells began to be combined together!

And only multicellular organisms can develop cancer. It can be inferred that this is a kind of disease originating from the organism itself, just like the question issued by Dr. Stephen Paget 91 years ago, why is your leg always on your legs? Will not grow breast cancer?!

I don’t know if Ms. Janet Raleigh has been on the scene. Please allow me to express my heartfelt thanks to you on behalf of Dr. Stephen Paget. It is your impeccable test that proves that blood cancer is caused by the chromosomal variation of your own cells. .

This also makes us abandon different ideas for the first time, and put our eyes on our bodies from the virus and environment of the outside world. Please take a look at our body. It is like the home of our soul, just this The home does not allow you to change when you have money.

Therefore, we can find that as the body's age increases, various problems will occur in this family, from headache, brain fever, backache, back pain, cold legs, foot odor, disability, and brain cancer. Heart disease is like driving a newly bought car to scrap, and then we can go to see God.

Some gentlemen and ladies laughed, and some gentlemen and ladies did not laugh, just as there are doctors in the respiratory system, doctors in the digestive system, and doctors in the genitourinary system. These three systems include For most cancers, we still do our own things.

I think we are struggling to cope with the headache, the doctor’s headache, the foot hurts, and the feet hurt. Just like Ms. Raleigh, focus on our genes!

According to my current study of medicine, I think that all diseases, including cancer, are directly or indirectly related to our genes. So I hereby suggest that you either continue the piecemeal work that you have done before, or you can work together. Research and analyze the entire human genome as a whole, and determine the sequence of base pairs in the genome."