Chapter 146 In Vitro Organ Cultivation
"Xiao Du, we already understand your thoughts." Fang Jin said, "We will discuss this matter and will give you a reply in two days."
"Okay." Du Xingyu agreed immediately.
He felt that the success rate of this matter was still very high, because Peking University's biology department was originally the most leading in the country. Moreover, Peking University has money, and its annual income reached more than 30 billion last year.
It is not only a higher education institution, but also has its own company and medical school.
The medical institution affiliated to Peking University alone can bring a lot of income to it every year. And its own research plays a very important role in medical technology.
Staying at Peking University is relatively convenient, whether it is academic research or other aspects. If it really doesn't work, Du Xingyu also chooses the best research institute or large group to open.
These companies now want to poach him, but in private, some companies have already offered him particularly favorable conditions.
But Du Xingyu does not want to go to a company that is too commercial, so his research direction will be restricted.
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Because of Du Xingyu's affairs, the Peking University school committee held a special meeting to discuss.
"Du Xingyu is indeed a rare talent. But the conditions he proposed are also very harsh. An independent laboratory or the top internationally, the cost is hundreds of millions of yuan, and it may even be more. For a graduate student, is this treatment too high?" someone said.
"I think it's not only not high, but it's very reasonable." Su Yutang said, "I know Du Xingyu's academic level best. Although I am his teacher, in some aspects, I feel ashamed to say that he has surpassed me!"
"As far as I know, several foreign universities and research institutions have sent him invitations. Their treatment is no lower than that of us!"
"In previous years, we all used to poach talents from famous foreign universities at high prices. Now we have cultivated top talents ourselves, why don't we find a way to keep them?"
Su Yutang's words made everyone feel a little ashamed.
Fang Jin said: "Heroes must also have a place to use their skills. Du Xingyu has made such a big breakthrough at a young age. The most rare thing is that he does not pay much attention to fame and fortune. What he wants is to study the conditions. If we meet him now, I believe that in the future he will bring our Peking University and even the entire Chinese biological sciences to a new level!"
"If the school cannot afford the money, our medical department is willing to pay!" Peking University Medical Department is one of the six Peking University departments and has an independent administrative system.
They are also a very rich school department, and the revenue of those affiliated hospitals is astronomical in their annual revenue.
"Since everyone has no objection," said Xu Chang, "then I suggest giving special treatment to special talents and recruiting Du Xingyu directly in the name of the school. Let him become our scholar. When his qualifications are sufficient, he can also serve as a lecturer or professor..."
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"Du Xingyu, the school roughly agrees to your conditions." Su Yutang informed Du Xingyu, "From a graduate student to become a scholar at Peking University and have his own independent laboratory. This is the first time for us to set our school!"
"Thank you, teacher." Du Xingyu thanked. Su Yutang made a lot of efforts in this.
"Haha, use it well, I believe that your true intelligence has not yet been used." Su Yutang said confidently, "Life Science is a great and mysterious discipline. To this day, we still know very little about biological science."
"There are countless problems waiting for us to overcome...You young people are active in thinking and can make more creative research!"
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Du Xingyu stayed at Peking University and became a scholar at Peking University. His independent laboratory, the school has begun to be built, and the site is located near Su Yutang's laboratory.
So before the laboratory was completed, Du Xingyu's main work location was in Su Yutang's biological laboratory.
The little Tyrannosaurus rex he cloned was named "Dawei", and netizens affectionately called it "Dawei Tianlong".
With sufficient food supply, Dawei's body size grew rapidly, and the laboratory's cultivation cabin could not accommodate it soon.
In order to make it grow better, the Beijing Zoo spent tens of millions of yuan to tailor a "habitat" for it. Dawei asked to live there. At the same time, it was observed and studied.
On the day "Dawei" entered the zoo, the entire zoo ushered in an unprecedented peak. The Tyrannosaurus Rex Park was blocked and the number line online was said to have reached more than 100,000!
Many markets want to witness the "true face" of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and some foreigners even made a special trip to the capital to watch Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"Dawei is the first generation of cloned Tyrannosaurus Rex. Current observations show that as long as the food, temperature and oxygen content are sufficient, it will grow smoothly." Du Xingyu explained to the researcher who was responsible for observing Tyrannosaurus Rex at the door.
"But it is not fertile yet. It is cloned again with its cells. After several generations of culture, it should have fertility and reproduction. Whether to do this, you can consider it yourself."
Du Xingyu did not intend to spend all his energy on cloning dinosaurs, although the outside world now calls it the father of "Tyrannosaurus Rex".
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His next plan is to establish a complete "human gene map". This is different from cloning. During the cloning process, Du Xingyu did not know what the function of some genes was, but he just needed to copy them.
The "human gene map" he wanted to build was to figure out what kind of genetic information each gene contained in the human gene and what physiological manifestations it would have.
Many scientists in the world have already done this work. As early as decades ago, the United States proposed the "Human Genome Project".
Up to now, 25,000 genes and 3 billion base pairs in the human body have been measured.
Modifying and controlling these genes is what Du Xingyu wants to do. Only in this way can he have a way to make human genes more perfect and make humans longer and smarter, a true interstellar race!
Before completing these tasks, Du Xingyu first received an invitation from the medical department.
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"Hello, Teacher Du, my name is Xie Ziqian. I am the Department of Medicine of Peking University and the director of the Affiliated Hospital of Peking University." Standing in front of Du Xingyu was a man in his sixties.
"I have read your paper on cloning dinosaurs and it's written so well! Especially the part about in vitro cell cloning, our hospital experts are reading it!"
"I'm looking for you this time. I'm asking you to give me some advice on one of our research team..."
Xie Ziqian's purpose was to ask Du Xingyu to give them some tips on stem cell induction and cultivation techniques.
There is a team in the affiliated hospital that is specializing in researching these. The purpose is to use stem cell cultivation technology to cultivate human cells and tissues in vitro to treat some diseases.
"In fact, stem cell cultivation can not only induce and cultivate specific cells." After learning about their research content, Du Xingyu said, "If the conditions are right, we can even use stem cells to cultivate human organs in vitro."
"Cultivate human organs in vitro?" Xie Ziqian asked, "such as skin?"
Cultivating human organs in vitro is no longer a new word. The medical community has long been able to cultivate human skin and other organs in vitro.
"It's not just the skin, including the heart, kidneys, liver, etc., all organs in the human body can actually be cultivated in vitro." Du Xingyu said, "Just use the technology I proposed to improve."
Hearing his words, the medical researchers were very surprised, "Can they do this?"
If you can achieve this level, you don’t know how many patients’ pains will be solved. In the future, you will not be afraid of not being able to find the transplanted organ, nor do you have to worry about rejection or other things.
Because it can be directly induced with human stem cells, new organs can be cultivated in vitro for transplantation.
"It should be possible." Du Xingyu nodded, "In my previous research, editing gene folds into the cell nucleus, breeding pluripotent stem cells, and then induced into pluripotent stem cells. This is why dinosaur embryos were cultivated."
"It is not difficult to cultivate human almighty stem cells with this technology."
"We just need to induce the almighty stem cells again, let them develop the cells needed by the patient and create an in vitro cultivation environment to cultivate human organs."
Hearing his words, all the medical researchers looked puzzled, and obviously, they did not believe it.
If it can be really done, this technology will be more than Du Xingyu cloning a dinosaur and shocking the world!
People can only look at the new things, study paleontology, and study genetics.
The external organ cultivation technology mentioned by Du Xingyu is to completely rewrite the history of tens of thousands of years of human beings! Benefit all mankind!
"Since you invited me to participate in this research project," Du Xingyu said. "I suggest that I start studying in vitro organ cultivation techniques with mice."
The researchers were all hesitant, and Xie Ziqian directly agreed: "Of course! You can try it!"
When Du Xingyu left, everyone asked Xie Ziqian again.
"Director, do you really believe what he said about external organ cultivation? It's okay to forget about skin or something, we also have this technology. But it's too exaggerated to cultivate kidneys, liver or something?"
"Yes, this person is too young. Before cloning dinosaurs, Professor Su Yutang must have given him a lot of advice. He himself, I think it's a bit uneasy!"
"Does our group of experts try it just because of his idea? The technology is not mature at all now, and it will be possible in a few decades!"
"Our current situation is that he hasn't studied and understood the 'one' yet, so he has directly pulled the target to 'ten'."
Xie Ziqian comforted: "Don't worry. Everyone has read his paper on cloning Tyrannosaurus Rex? Isn't it very insightful and breakthrough in the induction and cultivation of stem cells?"
Everyone nodded, they could not deny this.
"That's right." Xie Ziqian said, "If there are three people walking together, there will be my teacher. Du Xingyu came to our project and was recommended by Professor Su Yutang. You must learn his strengths."
"As for whether in vitro organ cultivation can be completed, this is another matter. In short, our ultimate goal is to study stem cell induction and cultivation techniques, which does not conflict with our research goals."
Obviously, Xie Ziqian didn't think they could achieve such a "great" goal. As long as they could achieve one-tenth of the progress, they would have completed the research purpose.
"Anyway, everyone cooperates well and studies hard. Maybe we can make some important discoveries and breakthroughs!"
Chapter completed!