Surgery Godfather

Chapter 2273: Chapter 1472: New World (Part 2)

Xiao Su was already in the kitchen, heating up milk. Erbao cried once in the nursery, then stopped. Dabao’s room door was still closed, he should be sleeping.

"Why are you up so early today?" Xiao Su asked without turning his head.

"I suddenly solved a problem in my dream, so I woke up."

"In your dream?"

"Yes, I dreamed all night, thinking about the unified theory. When I woke up today, I found my inbox full of emails inviting submissions."

Xiao Su poured the hot milk into a cup and handed it to him. Yang Ping took it and had a sip. The milk was very hot, and he slowly blew on it, waiting for it to cool down.

"What are you planning to do?" Xiao Su asked.

Yang Ping put down the cup and thought for a moment.

"It’s not time yet. When we have more data, when the growth and repair program map is officially published, when I have enough material to write about, I won’t reject them. But now is not the time. Whatever I’d write now would just be repeating what I’ve already said. No new data, no discoveries, no evidence. It’s like saying nothing at all. Moreover, the most important theory I do not plan to publish in other journals, I want to publish in the journal I host. The papers on derivative theories can be published in those journals."

Xiao Su looked at him, said nothing, and turned to heat up porridge.

Yang Ping finished his breakfast, by the time he left the house, the sky was already bright. He passed the garden, the ginkgo tree, the inpatient building. The ginkgo tree branches were bare, appearing like an ink painting in the morning light. The windows of the inpatient building reflected sunlight, like countless eyes. He walked into the entrance of the institute, the guard greeted him: "Professor Yang, morning!"

"Morning!"

The elevator door opened, the hallway was very quiet, most people hadn’t arrived yet. He walked into the office, turned on the light, and sat down at the desk. On the desk laid a printed email, left by Tang Shun here yesterday, with the title being a long letter from the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Yang Ping picked up the letter and read it again.

"Dear Professor Yang Ping:

Your recent proposal of the unified theory hypothesis, we believe it holds significant academic value and potential for clinical translation. If you are willing to write a review article that systematically expounds on this theoretical framework, it would be our great honor. We suggest making this article the inaugural piece of the ’New Horizons’ column, accompanied by editorial commentary.

This is not just a paper, this is a declaration, a proclamation that medical research is entering a new stage."

Yang Ping finished reading, and put the letter back on the table.

The "New Horizons" column, in the over two hundred years since the New England Journal of Medicine was founded, countless columns have been set up, but "New Horizons" has only appeared three times. The first time was at the end of the 19th century when Roentgen discovered X-rays. The second time was in the mid-20th century when Watson and Crick proposed the double helix structure of DNA. The third time was at the end of the 20th century, when the Human Genome Project was launched. Now is the fourth time.

Of course, he knew what this meant, any doctor knows, but he couldn’t respond just because he knew what it meant. A response requires capital, solid data, and evidence. And this data, this evidence, he believes is currently not completely in hand.

Not that there’s none, but it’s not enough!

Lin Xiaoyu’s necrotic focus grew from 3.2 mm to 11.2 mm, that’s a data point. The BBB score from AAV experiments increased from 19.2 points to 19.8 points, that’s evidence. The repair program map’s five hundred sixty-three nodes, three thousand two connections, that’s a system. But when these things are combined, they are still not enough to support a New Horizons review in the New England Journal of Medicine.

And over at localized cloning, it’s not enough to just have muscle and skin cloning, an organ cloning is needed, like the heart, liver, or kidney.

At nine in the morning, Yang Ping walked out of the office and went to the cell laboratory.

Weber was already there, wearing a deep blue lab coat, safety goggles on, operating within the sterile hood. Manstein stood beside him, holding a notebook, writing something. Both of them looked up as Yang Ping entered.

"Professor, we’ve found a candidate node." Weber’s voice came out from behind the goggles, slightly muffled, but every word was clear.

Yang Ping walked to the sterile hood, didn’t open his mouth.

Weber put down the pipette he was holding, walked to the computer, and opened a diagram. The repair program map, that huge network map with five hundred sixty-three nodes, three thousand two connections.

"We conducted a topological analysis of the entire network." Weber pointed to the diagram on the screen, using the mouse to circle a few areas, "Using graph theoretical algorithms, calculated each node’s degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector centrality. Degree is how many connections a node has, betweenness is how often a node serves as a bridge in the network, closeness is the average distance from a node to all other nodes, eigenvector centrality is how important a node is based on the importance of the nodes it connects to. Combining the rankings of the four indicators, the top one is this node."

Weber clicked on a node marked with a red circle on the map. Yang Ping leaned closer to the screen, looking at the node’s number and annotation.

"Receptor X," Weber said, "it’s the receptor for the unknown factor. It’s at the very center of the network, connecting six out of the seven modules. Its degree is the highest in the network, its betweenness is the highest, its closeness is the highest. Its eigenvector centrality is nearly double that of the second place. To put it simply: it’s the most important crossroads on this map. All signals must pass through it. Without it, the repair program cannot be activated. Finding it, means finding the main switch of the repair program. Unlocking it, opens the door to the body’s self-repair."

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