Chapter 937 Targeted Drugs
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Jobs left Longhu Mountain more piously. In his opinion, all this must be the credit of the great ancestor.
Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for me to just bring back the Yanghei Jidu Gong Seal, and the results would come out immediately, and the key compound would be found.
The medical research institution funded by Steve Jobs has been studying a brand-new method of treating cancer, which is to attack cancer cells at the DNA level.
Every year, the news media reports how many people have died from cancer, but this statement is actually incorrect. Cancer never attacks any organ or cell in the human body. The cancer cells themselves do not even originate from
Any virus is the human body itself, and cancer cells coexist with the human body to some extent.
It's just that this kind of coexistence is very overbearing, cruel, and deadly.
Cancer cells themselves are just a type of normal human cells, and the initial destruction and proliferation of normal cells are controlled by human DNA. The human body is like an extremely precise machine, and which parts require which parts are all determined in advance.
The DNA drawing is drawn above.
The number of all human cells is controlled within a certain range, but cancer cells break through this limit and begin to proliferate indefinitely in a certain area. Eventually, huge tumors grow in the body, and then increase with normal body cells.
nutrients, eventually leading to necrosis of some body organs, and ultimately human death.
To use a vivid metaphor, this person's body is like a society, and each cell is like a person in the society. Originally, this society was in a utopian state, where everyone worked according to the plan every day, and at the same time obtained the benefits of life according to the plan.
resources, everyone is in a very fair social environment.
But one day, for some reason, some people gained rights and broke the utopian state. They could gain wealth every day even if they did not work.
They can even replicate a large number of similar species, and as long as they don't work every day, they will be responsible for harvesting wealth. However, the total amount of resource wealth generated by society is fixed. The more wealth they capture, the less wealth others will receive.
, so society leads to extreme wealth differentiation.
But these people still don't know how to exercise restraint, and just ask for it blindly. In the end, all the exploited and oppressed lower-class humans will go on strike, or quit their jobs, and then society will collapse, and the whole world will cease to exist!
That's pretty much it.
This characteristic also makes it very difficult to treat cancer. In the past, when humans treated cancer, they usually performed surgery to cut out the malignant tumors. But the problem is that the tumor can be cut out, but not all the cancer cells can be removed.
, there must still be a considerable number of cancer cells present in the human body.
These cancer cells will continue to proliferate, but humans cannot bear the damage caused by continuous surgeries, so the next step is chemotherapy.
By irradiating the area where cancer cells gather, a large number of cancer cells are killed. However, this will also produce another bad result, that is, this kind of chemotherapy does not distinguish between friend and foe, and will kill normal body cells and cancer cells together.
die.
Therefore, this method can only prolong life for a few months at most. In the end, the patient will eventually die due to physical failure.
Jobs had received this kind of treatment before, with surgery first and then chemotherapy. Unfortunately, it was thought that he had pancreatic cancer, and the location was very special. The chemotherapy had killed too many normal cells, and Jobs' body was close to drying up.
This is also the reason why he feels that Chinese Taoist elixirs have a strong data effect on his body, because these elixirs are used to replenish the body's vitality and restore normal cells, which can greatly kill Jobs.
The dead normal cells are restored, giving him a feeling of remarkable effect.
But in the end, it is still treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, and it will only delay the process for two to three months at most.
The new therapy that Jobs invested all his energy in research is a brand-new treatment method based on the pathogenic principle of cancer.
The previous methods of treating cancer were simple and crude, killing both normal cells and cancer cells. So is there a way to only kill cancer cells but not normal cells?
Until now, this approach seemed impossible because cancer cells are exactly the same as normal cells, except that part of their DNA has been altered.
So unless humans can invent a drug that can identify the DNA in cells, find those cancer cells whose DNA has been tampered with, and then only kill those cancer cells without harming normal cells, then it can almost
Perfect for treating cancer.
But wanting a compound to actively distinguish the difference between DNA is simply a fantasy treatment plan. But let alone, with long-term research, humans have really discovered the possibility of a treatment.
That is to use a combination of targeted compounds and targeted drugs to identify and kill cancer cells.
As mentioned before, the only difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that part of their DNA is different from the DNA of normal cells. So is there any way to mark this part of the different DNA in some way?
This sounds even more incredible. Is there a drug that can check the DNA of cells one by one like a teacher, and then distinguish them by making a cross or a tick?
Relying on external forces is not enough, but what if cancer cells are allowed to actively expose themselves?
As we all know, DNA is actually made up of individual ribonucleic acid bonds, and when the DNA of cancer cells replicates, it also needs external nutrients.
So is it possible to directly inject some specially prepared compounds from the outside world? These compounds can only be used to create the altered DNA structure, and at the same time, this compound can be recognized by another drug with offensive properties.
The former is the target and the latter is the bullet.
Then during treatment, the patient is first allowed to take a large amount of this specific target compound, and the cancer cells in the body are basically labeled by this compound. After taking a large amount of bullet-type drugs, and then within a short period of time
Kill a large number of cancer cells and control the number of cancer cells to within the normal range.
After that, we will vigorously strengthen the human immune system and use the normal human immune ability to control the number of cancer cells, ultimately realizing the possibility of treating cancer.
Although this method is very feasible in theory, it is extremely difficult because both compounds, whether they are targets or bullets, are too difficult to study and involve too much genetic knowledge.
Anyway, it was impossible to create this kind of drug before 2000, because humans had not even fully compiled their own genes at that time.
It was not until 2000 that humans completed a major project, the Gene Map Project, which analyzed the DNA structure of most humans, making it possible to develop targeted drugs.
However, the research and development of this kind of drug is still in a state where few companies dare to reach out. In addition to requiring immeasurable money, it also requires a lot of luck. You have to be lucky to find the one among billions of compounds.
Plant the compounds you need and then verify them in experiments.
Money and luck are both indispensable, so it is impossible for normal companies to invest in the research and development of this kind of drug. Only Jobs, in order to survive, spent most of his life's wealth on it.
Inside this medical research institution.
It’s just that seven or eight years have passed, and there has still been no results from this institution. Jobs has basically despaired of this research institution, otherwise he would not have turned to religion for help, hoping that Taishang Laojun would save his life.
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But at this extremely gloomy time, luck struck. Once again, by chance, or in other words, it was inevitable after countless failures, it finally found a targeted drug and a special method to kill this kind of disease.
Bullet drugs for targeted drugs.
Of course, it has only been verified in the laboratory at present. If this drug is to be put into the market, it will take at least several years of complex experiments to ensure that it has no side effects.
Of course, none of this meant anything to a dying Jobs, who couldn't wait to be the first to test the drug.
The next plot is actually very clear in another world. Jobs supported it until after the release of iPhone 4S, which is still 6 years away. This drug helped Jobs gain an extra six years of life.
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It's just that the researchers who worked hard to develop these drugs didn't know that when Jobs learned the news, he didn't put his gratitude on their hard work on research and development, or even on the several years he had invested.
billions of dollars every year.
Instead, he knelt down in front of the statues of Taishang Laojun and Zhang Tianshi with great piety and excitement, and kept kowtowing.
It is said that Jobs knelt in the hall for three hours that day. At the end of the kneeling, he felt a little exhausted, and then he stood up with the help of Zhang Jintao and other Taoist priests.
Jobs excitedly held Master's hand and said, "Master, I'm guilty. I actually questioned my trust in the Heavenly Master. I actually worried that all my merits were in vain! I'm guilty!"
"Shut up!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Jintao shouted loudly at this time, "We, the human race, are born between mysteries. There is no good or evil, no merit or punishment. As long as we uphold a kind heart and do good deeds, how can we say that we will be punished by heaven?
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"If there is a sin in doing good, it is also a sin from heaven. Our human race is beneficial to the world, and even good! If human beings are born with sin, it is also a sin from heaven!"
"Ah!" Jobs was stunned for a moment!
"Ah!" Zhang Jintao shouted again, "Idiot, why don't you wake up quickly?"
Chapter completed!