Surgery Godfather

Chapter 2232: Chapter 1455: An Unexpected Place (Part 2)

"What happened next?" Tang Shun asked.

"Then I discovered the problem was with the water bath," Weber said. "When I thawed the cryopreservation tube during cell revival, I used the water bath. The first time I did it, the water was clean. Three months later, the water in the bath grew bacteria, invisible to the naked eye, but during thawing, the seal of the cryopreservation tube might have been contaminated with bacteria, polluting my cells. The cells were fine in the cryopreservation tube, but once they were planted and cultured for a few days, the bacteria gradually developed, and the cell’s condition deteriorated."

Everyone was stunned.

"It’s that simple?"

Weber said, "It’s that simple, but to find this reason, it took me three months. Today’s reminder from Professor Yang reminded me of something from ten years ago."

Weber stood up from the chair, picked up the experiment record book, and began writing a new experimental plan. This time, he added more than a dozen new controls and monitoring indicators.

Yang Ping looked at the time, twelve twenty at noon, time to eat lunch.

The phone vibrated again.

It was a WhatsApp message from Xu Zhiliang: "Professor, Teacher Gong’s post-operative CT scan has been sent to you. Lesion completely resected, no bleeding, good brainstem morphology!"

Below were a few screenshots of CT images. Yang Ping opened them up and looked at them one by one. Indeed, as Xu Zhiliang said, the lesion on the dorsal side of the medulla had been completely resected, with no residuals on the wound and no new bleeding. The medulla’s shape had not significantly deformed, and the fourth ventricle had returned to its normal shape.

He replied with one word: "Good!"

Then he dialed Xiao Su’s number.

"Can you come back for lunch today?" Xiao Su’s voice was light, with a bit of anticipation.

"Yes, ten minutes."

"Then I’ll start cooking."

When Yang Ping got home, Xiao Su was busy in the kitchen. The range hood buzzed, and the sound of the spatula hitting the iron pan was clear and rhythmic. He changed his shoes and walked to the kitchen door, leaning on the door frame to watch her.

Xiao Su was wearing a casual cotton dress, her hair loosely clipped at the back of her head with a hairpin, revealing her fair nape. She held the spatula in her right hand and steadied the pan with her left. In the pan, the tomato and scrambled eggs were cooking, the vibrant red tomato sauce enveloping the golden eggs like a painting.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Su said without turning her head, but the corners of her mouth slightly lifted.

"Watching how you make tomato scrambled eggs look so good." Yang Ping walked in, gently wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder.

Xiao Su shifted her body slightly: "Don’t mess around, the oil might splash on you."

"Where’s Dabao?"

"Sent to his grandmother’s, will pick him up again on the weekend." Xiao Su scooped the dish with the spatula.

Yang Ping released his arms and went to the dining table to set the bowls and chopsticks, two sets of bowls and chopsticks, two cups of warm water, simple and plain.

They sat facing each other, Xiao Su picked up a piece of egg and placed it in Yang Ping’s bowl: "Try it, is the seasoning okay?"

Yang Ping took a bite, the egg tender and smooth, the tomato’s sweet and sour perfectly balancing the egg’s flavor, tasty with a hint of the aroma of fried scallions.

"Delicious." He genuinely meant it.

Xiao Su also picked up a bite: "You’re less picky eating now. You used to not eat cilantro; now you eat everything."

"When I’m busy, I can’t even eat boxed meals, how can I be picky?" Yang Ping took a mouthful of rice, "But what you’ve made is truly delicious, not just acceptable."

Xiao Su watched him eat and suddenly said: "Do you think after Erbao is born, we can still eat quietly like this?"

Yang Ping’s chewing slowed a bit, then said: "Sure, why not? It’s just an extra pair of chopsticks."

"You think it’s that simple," Xiao Su gave him a glance, "two kids, the chaos."

"Then we’ll hire help," Yang Ping said, "if it doesn’t work, I’ll reduce my work at the institute."

Xiao Su set down her chopsticks, looking at him seriously: "That’s not okay, your work shouldn’t be affected. You don’t need to worry too much about things at home. Be busy as you need, I’ll manage things at home."

Yang Ping set down the bowl, reached out to hold Xiao Su’s hand on the table.

"Thank you for your hard work!"

Xiao Su glared at him: "What are you talking about? Eat!"

After the meal, Yang Ping helped clean up the dishes and then rested on the sofa for ten minutes.

The identifier, the unknown-function protein. Weber’s hypothesis suggests it might be the key molecule in original cell repair. If this hypothesis holds, it should follow a pattern, a pattern that fits the theory of balance.

He stood up, walked to the study, turned on the computer, logged into the largest international protein database. He entered the identifier in the search bar and hit enter.

The page loaded for a few seconds, then displayed a screen of information.

Yang Ping read through it line by line. This protein is predicted to have a special domain, a crucial domain for communication between cells. More importantly, the database shows this protein has the highest expression levels in the nervous system, especially in the spinal cord and brainstem.

If this protein is indeed highly expressed in the spinal cord, it provides a new explanatory direction for Manstein’s spinal cord injury repair experiments. This protein is a component that activates the endogenous repair mechanism in the spinal cord, bringing the original cell repair theory from a macro level into the biochemical micro-level.

Yang Ping saved all the page’s information and then sent Manstein an email: "About that unknown factor, I found some interesting information. Come to my office tomorrow morning to discuss."

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