It was a cold December day in Kyoto, and at half past three in the afternoon, on Xidan Avenue, a black extended Maybach was driving slowly.

A hook-nosed man in the car was talking on the phone, scolding in fluent Chinese: "You gang of waste pens, if you smash it again, you will all roll up Lao Tzu and get out." ”

After saying that, the hook-nosed man hung up the phone directly.

I opened the skylight overhead, lit a cigarette and smoked slowly, the expression on my face was very irritable.

This hook-nosed man is Herbert, and he is the CEO of Zeiss in Greater China.

The average impression of ZEISS is on their cameras, but in fact ZEISS is one of the world's most advanced manufacturers of industrial measuring instruments and medical devices.

For example, the femtosecond laser, which is one of the most advanced corneal refractive surgery modes in the world, is currently the only ZEISS "femtosecond" laser system in the world that can be applied to the "femtosecond" myopia correction surgery due to the high development cost and technical bottlenecks that are difficult to break through.

A set of fully imported Zeiss VisuMax full femtosecond laser system, the import price is about 12 million ~ 13 million.

There are now about 400 ZEISS femtosecond laser systems in China.

The femtosecond laser system requires regular maintenance, including cleaning the optical path, collimating the optical path, and so on.

It takes four times a year, and the maintenance cost is about 300,000 yuan.

Of course, compared with the expensive price of the machine, the maintenance cost of hundreds of thousands is really not worth mentioning.

However, the full femtosecond laser system from ZEISS is no longer selling.

Just yesterday, that damn company in China conducted the second phase of human trials of biological corneas.

According to the announcement of Xinghai Technology, the 100 human trial volunteers in October are normal so far.

And yesterday's 200 human trial volunteers, everything was normal.

According to the feedback from major hospitals in the past two months, the number of patients who choose ReLEx laser surgery has dropped sharply by more than 50%.

Herbert received an order from headquarters to obtain a biocorneal sample at all costs.

The list of patients last time was kept strictly secret by the Xinghai Research Institute, and they had no way to start, so this time they waited outside the physical examination hospital and the research institute in advance.

But until now, several patients have been reluctant to remove the embedded biological cornea.

At present, the price has been raised to 200,000.

While Herbert was smoking a cigarette and pondering, the phone rang, and he took it out to see that it was a subordinate sent to Zhonghai to contact the volunteers.

"Boss, just found a volunteer who is willing to remove the implanted biological cornea, but for 500,000. ”

"Damn, what a greedy pig~" Herbert scolded, and then said: "Give him the money, you take him to the hospital and wait for me, I'll go over immediately." ”

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At the same time that Herbert rushed to Zhonghai, Chen Xu's biomimetic corneal technology papers were published in Science and Nature.

Because it has entered the phase II clinical trial stage, the repercussions are more dramatic than that of a simple theoretical article.

Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, BBC News, The Times, and so on have all reported on this.

According to incomplete statistics from the WHO, there are probably more than 1 billion myopia patients in the world, and the annual cost of vision impairment worldwide exceeds 30 billion US dollars.

This number is increasing year by year.

Some foreign economists believe: "If the bionic biological cornea produced by Xinghai Technology can really completely solve myopia, in terms of market value, this technology is worth at least 500 billion US dollars." ”

Another biological expert praised this and said: "I hope this is true." It (the biological cornea) would be a historic invention worthy of the Nobel Prize in Biology. ”

At the same time, a number of Western media and newspapers have spoken highly of Xinghai Technology, believing that Xinghai Technology is a real high-tech enterprise in China, and like Warwick, it is an enterprise worthy of respect!

This is a very rare thing.

Foreign media have a habitual political correctness, just like the black domestic media can't afford to eat mustard, and rarely report on the positive image of Chinese companies, and they all ridicule it with a high-minded face.

Wow, the Chinese village is connected;

Wow, Chinese can afford computers;

Wow, the Chinese can afford to drive a car.

Hold back your laughter, really.

Although the media knows that China is not the image they report, there is no click rate in China if they don't hack it.

Then, under the long-term brainwashing of the media, the general public's perception of China is still stuck in the last century.

In the minds of many ordinary people in the West, China is still a poor country, and ordinary people buy computers as luxuriously as people in Western countries buy Ferraris.

Therefore, this media positive report on Xinghai Technology is a very rare thing.

With the fame of biomimetic corneas abroad, major domestic news media have followed up, and even the People's Daily has written a special article to report it.

For a while, Xinghai Technology's bionic biological cornea has become a hot topic on the domestic Internet, and countless myopic patients are calling for it, and they can't wait to go to the hospital to experience it immediately.

Xinghai Technology naturally knows how to fight snakes with sticks, and immediately set up branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and major first-tier cities across the country to lay a front station for biological corneas.

A total of three phases of human trials are required for the biological cornea, but because it is not a drug and does not require surgery, the duration of each phase is two months, a total of six months.

After confirming that there will be no rejection, it will be officially available for sale on April 20 next year.

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On the winter solstice on the 21st, an astonishing news suddenly broke on the Internet, some volunteers who participated in the biological cornea experiment, the original cornea had organic necrosis, which was suspected to be caused by harmful substances in the biological cornea.

This news was like a thunderbolt from the blue, shocking Xinghai Technology and countless myopic patients who were eagerly looking forward to the launch of biological corneas.

Then there was a monstrous wave on the Internet, and the unbearable abuse completely submerged Xinghai Technology.

There are also all kinds of British blowing, German sticks, daily miscellaneous, and cent ridicule also followed, and Xinghai Technology was worthless, and it was a garbage scam company.

Chen Xu, who was holding a meeting in Tokyo, immediately rushed back.

Here, Qi Wenbin has organized an incident investigation team and rushed to the city where the volunteers are located.

"How's it going?"

"It's not clear that Mr. Chen and the experts from the institute have just gotten off the plane and haven't seen the volunteers yet. ”

Chen Xu pursed his lips and waited in the office.

I also called the research institute halfway through and asked them to test the bioink for toxic substances. Although this is basically impossible, I am not afraid of 10,000, but I am afraid of what if.

Marven told him that the experts had done 106 poison tests at the first time, and no toxic substances had been found so far.

Experts speculate that if it is really organic necrosis of the primary cornea caused by the biological cornea, then the only possibility is the individual pathological reaction.

But this is likely to be very low, because even if there is a pathological reaction, there is enough time to remove the biological cornea, and it is unlikely that the original cornea will die.

But it's useless to say anything now, and we won't know until we meet the volunteers and find out.

Chen Xu waited in the office for half an hour, and then took out the phone and called Chen Yanan, who led the team......

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