Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1531: 724

"Who are they?" Zhao Yi asked with interest.

"Old Dai, there’s no need to mention him, plus Zhu Qi, Deng Guolong, Zhang Jinming, and we plan to recommend two more," Yan Xuelin explained. "Actually, based on academic contributions, many people from our institute are qualified, such as Old Ai and Zhang Wei in your lab, but they are quite young, especially Zhang Wei."

"Being young is not an issue."

Zhao Yi nodded, "Here’s the plan, I’ll take care of our lab. I’ll have Zhang Wei, Ai Lixin, including Li Ming, all recommended by someone." freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"With you saying that, Zhao Yi, I’m relieved," Yan Xuelin immediately smiled.

Participating in the additional election of the Academy members requires recommendations from existing Academy members of the department. With the Medical Science Center recommending so many people, finding enough Academy members for recommendations isn’t easy.

But this was not a problem for Zhao Yi at all. He had the contact information of several members of the Life Sciences and Medical Department in his phone, and recommending Academy members for the additional election was just a matter of speaking.

Because it was only about participating in the additional election, not about being directly elected as an Academy member, there were several steps involved such as preparing materials, campaigning, interviewing, and more before being elected.

After giving it some thought, Zhao Yi felt that his laboratory should also have a few Academy members for prestige.

For example, Zhang Wei.

Even though Yan Xuelin said that Zhang Wei was too young, just over forty, and probably others saw it the same way, being young was not a problem because Zhang Wei’s research achievements were high enough to be directly recommended.

Others might encounter issues with making room for ’the elderly.’

However, Zhang Wei’s participation in the Academy’s additional election was undoubtedly representing Zhao Yi’s lab, and should anyone come to him with talk of ’making room for the elderly,’ he would outright dismiss it.

He had absolutely no need to save face for others.

The election of Academy members required the voting of the department’s Academy members, and it would be interesting if Zhang Wei were to be eliminated during the election.

Because, Zhao Yi was very clear about one thing—

The Nobel Committee was preparing to award the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Zhang Wei in recognition of her significant contributions to AIDS research and prevention.

At the same time, this year’s Zhao’s Science Prize also intended to nominate Zhang Wei for the Zhao Medical Science Prize.

If Zhang Wei were to be eliminated in the Academy’s additional election but then won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Zhao Medical Science Prize, and considering Zhang Wei’s research area was non-technological and belonged only to the Science Academy and not to the Engineering Academy—

That would be intriguing!

At any rate, the public opinion would become very interesting by then, and the Life Sciences and Medical Department would probably feel quite pressured.

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Zhao Yi did not reveal the news about the Nobel Prize in Medicine; he had heard it from an old friend, and it was highly unlikely that there would be any problems.

The Nobel Committee awarding the Medicine Prize to Zhang Wei was essentially equivalent to awarding it to Zhao Yi because in the research on Tianqing Protein, Zhao Yi was the person with the most significant contributions. However, Zhao Yi would never accept the award himself, so they had no choice but to award it to Zhang Wei instead.

That’s not to say that some awards could not be shared between several individuals.

If Zhao Yi were willing to accept the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the recipients might have been him and Zhang Wei or even him, Zhang Wei, and Ai Lixin.

Wait and see.

The final outcome was not yet determined; maybe Zhang Wei and Ai Lixin would win the prize together, but in any case, this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine would undoubtedly belong to Zhao Yi’s laboratory.

After speaking briefly with Yan Xuelin, Zhao Yi went to his own laboratory and saw Ai Lixin, Zhang Wei, and a few others working in the sterile room. ƒrēewebnovel.com

He waited for a while before they came out.

"How’s it going?" asked Zhao Yi.

Zhang Wei shook her head, "We still can’t determine which foreign substance provides the immune confirmation."

"Did you design a new experiment?"

"Yes, it was a last-minute decision, but there were no results; they’re all here," Zhang Wei said as she took the data.

Zhao Yi looked carefully and decided, "There’s no problem with your experimental design. I think the approach is feasible. How about this – let’s do the same experiment again, and I’ll join in."

"Alright," they decided.

The experiment they designed was intended to extract materials at different stages during the immune rejection process and to conduct detailed observations under a microscope in the hope of discovering something. But in the end, they found nothing.

It was indeed very difficult to make discoveries with this method because during the immune rejection process, the substances that send signals to the cells being tested are protein molecules, which are definitely invisible to the eye.

However, Zhao Yi was hoping to collect enough conditions, rather than actually seeing something under the microscope.

The people in the lab hadn’t had lunch yet, so Zhao Yi waited for them to eat before starting the second experiment. Once everything was ready and the new materials were delivered, the experiment began quickly.

The experimental design was relatively simple, but still very time-consuming and energy-draining.

Zhao Yi stayed in the laboratory for two hours and observed several times through the telescope. An afternoon passed by just like that.

When they walked out, there was a hint of disappointment on everyone’s faces. A day’s work and a brand-new experimental design had yielded no results.

Zhao Yi, on the other hand, looked relaxed. He said, "We definitely made no discoveries, but that doesn’t mean we gained nothing."

He continued, "Through the experiment, we eliminated some of the possibilities we had previously imagined. Next, I think we should focus on studying the membrane vesicles of human cells."

"This part is most likely to be directly related to the immune response."

"Although many institutions have conducted detailed studies on membrane vesicles and have not made any detailed discoveries, I believe that new discoveries do not necessarily involve finding new proteins or substances. Perhaps the arrangement of substances or proteins are also possibilities," he conjectured.

"We need to analyze from the perspective of blood. For instance, the rejection seen in blood typing would be greatly reduced. I believe this is definitely a good direction to explore."

"The mechanism of immune rejection response is directly related to the cell membrane – that’s a certain conclusion."

"Over the next few days, I’ll be here. Let’s work together to figure out the detailed mechanisms involved," he urged them.

Zhao Yi finished speaking earnestly and received a round of applause from the group.

Although they hadn’t achieved much in a day, at the very least, they had found a direction for their research. With direct involvement from Zhao Yi, everyone in the laboratory became very confident.

As it turned out, Zhao Yi had a real ’talent’ in the field of medical mechanism research, even more so than in theoretical research.

This was mainly due to several systemic abilities that allowed him to grasp the correct research direction and to see details that others missed.

In the following five days, the lab was constantly conducting related research. Several researchers, including more than a dozen associate researchers, were all involved; they just kept experimenting and re-experimenting.

Zhao Yi was responsible for analyzing the results.

In the end, Zhao Yi came to a conclusion, "Now we can confirm that the immune rejection response of human cells is directly related to several proteins on the cell membrane surface."

"These proteins are also related to blood types. Previous research overlooked this because they are related to blood typing, and the varieties of blood types are extremely limited."

"Still, I believe that the immune rejection response, or rather, the immune response process, is also directly related to them," he said.

"Alternatively, it could be understood this way: these protein substances can undergo different combinations, and the process of immune detection is based on the order of protein arrangement," he explained.

The clear articulation of the last sentence caused a stir in the laboratory; everyone had an epiphany, as they hadn’t thought about the arrangement of proteins as a detection signal before. But after giving it some thought, it made a lot of sense.

There are 11 proteins that could possibly be related to the immune rejection response.

If the arrangement of these eleven proteins acted as the contact point between the detecting cell and the cell being detected during the immune response process, there would be ’11! (factorial)’ possible combinations.

This could be the secret of immune detection!