Chapter 454: Dragon Blood Vine

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The matter of the free clinic was arranged for tomorrow, and the old village chief no longer stayed to drink tea and brag, and left in a hurry after saying goodbye.

He had to go to those village cadres and help him implement this matter.

"Those old gentlemen are willing to give the elderly in our village a free day of medical treatment? After hearing this, the secretary of the village party committee was also very happy.

"We're going to get the place in place now, what do you think about the school? It should be okay to squeeze out two or three classrooms. The old village chief spoke his mind.

"On the other side of the school, let me ask the old headmaster what his opinion is!"

"Hmm! In addition, we need to convey the news to every household by tonight, and make sure that every elderly person is on the scene to check their health. The old village chief said.

The two of them said something more, and then they went their separate ways, and two groups of people went out to inform them from house to house.

"Donald Lao Wu, where is your old man? Isn't he rheumatism? Tomorrow when he goes to school, a few old gentlemen from Weihang's family will help him see a doctor. ”

"How do you charge?" asked Tang Lao Wu.

"People said it was free, but of course, we definitely need to pay for the medicine we want to take. People are just free of medical fees, which is very kind. A village cadre said.

"That's really the blessing of our Tangjia Village! No problem, tomorrow morning, I'll help my old man go over to have a look." I also heard that the old gentleman is very good at medicine. ”

"It's good to know!"

On the other side of the village, many villagers gathered together and talked about it.

"Did you hear that?"

"What's the matter?" asked a fisherman who had just returned from a fishing trip.

"The filial piety of Lao Tzu had a stroke. ”

"When did it happen?"

"I almost lost my life, but a few very powerful old Chinese medicine doctors came to Hangzi's house, and they were rescued in three or two clicks, and now they are sent to the Municipal People's Hospital. I heard that it has stabilized and is not in danger of life. ”

"Well, that's good, this man! is really fragile, maybe just three long and two short. However, the stroke was easily saved, and that ability is really not covered. The fisherman, who had just returned, sighed.

"Needless to say? I heard that they are going to treat the elderly in our village for free tomorrow. ”

"Really?"

"The old village chief told the old man to go to the school tomorrow, do you think there is any fake?"

"That's great, my aunt hasn't been in good shape during this time. I'll send her over tomorrow. The man was pleasantly surprised.

In the countryside, some people don't call their mother mom, but aunt and so on. Calling himself an uncle, it is said that the child's fate is not very compatible with his parents, and it is not good to call his parents.

In fact, it is an old custom to call aunt and uncle, just like a small name called Gou Yu or something. I hope that children will not be bullied by evil spirits and so on, and can grow up well! A kind of superstition, but it is also the most primitive protection of parents for their children!

The news of the free clinic has been fermenting and spreading in the village, and Weihang's parents are preparing a sumptuous meal. Also coming to help were Wei Lixiao's younger siblings.

"Our seafood here is top-notch, so let's try it later. Wei Lixin said to Ye Lao and the other old men.

"I've heard from those tourists just now, and I'm going to take some back. I don't think it's going to be bad. Zhao Lao smiled.

"What about Xiaohang and the others?" asked Elder Yang.

"Maybe Professor Yu called them over, right?" replied Wei Hang's mother.

"Professor Yu?" a group of old men obviously didn't know each other.

"We have a lot of old professors here and stuff like that, and they're all here to study biology and stuff. They would often look for my son, and the stinky boy would sometimes bring them back some weird things from the far sea. ”

With such an explanation, the group of old men immediately understood. Feelings, what professors, etc. They also attach great importance to Weihang! It seems that it is really necessary for them to stay for a while.

When that kid goes to sea, let him help find some medicinal herbs and come back. That's the right thing to do.

So, unconsciously, there was another group of people urging Weihang to go to sea. If he knew that this would be the result, he shouldn't have brought these people back in the first place, right?

And Professor Yu didn't know that Wei Hang had taken out several magical plants. If you know, I'm afraid that Wei Hang won't be able to calm down, and he will be annoyed to death by a group of old guys.

"Come, show you a newfound creature. Professor Yu said to Wei Hang.

Calling him over is actually just a share of joy. This time, they also accidentally discovered a tropical plant on the island, which, according to their research department, can extract a substance that is extremely helpful in the treatment of cancer.

At present, people from the national pharmaceutical R&D department have set off to Tangjia Village, and at that time, they will bring a large number of equipment to prepare for the research and development of related drugs.

In fact, the national pharmaceutical research and development department has long been concerned about marine drugs.

In the 21st century, human society is faced with the severe challenges of "rapid population growth, lack of resources, and environmental degradation". With the dwindling terrestrial resources, it has become increasingly urgent to exploit the oceans and obtain resources from the oceans, and the development of marine drugs has become imminent.

Over the years, China's marine aquaculture has developed rapidly, and many kinds of marine medicinal organisms have been successfully cultivated, and some have realized large-scale artificial production and industrial production, changing the passive and backward state of being completely dependent on nature.

Let's take seahorses, for example!

In the past, seahorses have always relied on fishing, and it is difficult to guarantee medicines, and the supply of seahorses has been repeatedly tightened. After years of research, mastering the habits and breeding technology of seahorses, at present, China's Guangdong Province, Shandong Province and other places have successively established seahorse artificial breeding farms, and now can provide some products.

For nearly two decades, a prominent feature of marine drug research has been the dedication to the development of new drugs and products. By the end of 89 years, China had developed many new marine drugs, and more than 10 varieties had been put into production, and good economic and social benefits had been achieved

Listening to Professor Yu's explanation, Weihang really paid attention to marine medicine.

"Cancer has always been our great enemy. Over the years, the world has been working this in the hope of finding an effective and feasible drug on Earth that can completely destroy cancer cells. ”

"And the ocean is an area in which countries are investing a lot. At present, substances that inhibit the development and spread of cancer cells have been extracted from marine animals such as sharks. Expert Wu also interjected.

Now, for the first time, we have discovered a plant on an island that has unimaginable effects on cancer. More useful than the yew we've found before.

As we all know, yew, also known as yew, is a natural rare anti-cancer plant that is on the verge of extinction in the world, and is a national first-class protected plant. It is a precious tree species that combines ornamental and medicinal use, and paclitaxel extracted from the plant is recognized as an anticancer drug in the world, and it is expensive. Therefore, yew is also known as "biological gold".

"Paclitaxel is a complex secondary metabolite in Taxus and the only known drug that can promote microtubule polymerization and stabilize polymerized microtubules. The on-site experts were afraid that Wei Hang would not understand, and also gave a brief introduction to yew.

Technically, isotope tracing shows that paclitaxel binds only to polymerized microtubules and does not react with unpolymerized tubulin dimers. After the cells are exposed to paclitaxel, a large number of microtubules will accumulate in the cell, and the accumulation of these microtubules interferes with various functions of the cell, especially the cell division is stopped in the mitotic phase, blocking the normal division of the cell.

This is the truth about how yew inhibits cancer cells.

"However, we found that this dragon's blood vine, a substance in its body, works even better. The pottery expert also showed a diagram of the structure of that substance.

Dragon's blood vine is their name for that plant, because the whole plant is blood-red and shaped like a dragon, so it has this name.

In addition, the roots of this plant have many spherical products, just like peanuts. And the kind of substances that can effectively fight cancer are extracted from those spherical products.

"There shouldn't be many such plants, right?" Wei Hang frowned.

To get to the point, yes, there are very few of them. They also don't know if there is any other place on Earth besides that island.

Therefore, they do not dare to develop on a large scale, and they can only select some that do not grow well.

"At present, it has been found that there are twenty-five more. Our current job is to figure out their growth environment, rules, habits, etc., in the hope of cultivating more dragon's blood vines. Some academicians added.

Otherwise, even if that substance is effective against cancer, without this plant, it will be useless.

"Can you try to synthesize that substance?" Wei Hang came up with an idea.

However, this idea has long been thought of, and the trial is being prepared, and people from the national pharmaceutical research and development department came here for this purpose.

If it is difficult to synthesize artificially, it can only be a pity.

"We're working on that as well. If you rely on biological extraction, it is basically impossible, and the yield is too small. ”

"Speaking of which, this is also partly due to you, if you hadn't discovered this island, you wouldn't have found so many valuable creatures. Academician Chu said with a smile.

In addition to the dragon's blood vine, there is also the kind of flying spider that could fly before, and now the research has reached the advanced stage, and a drug for the treatment of ALS has been extracted. He received the news that it may be put into use in the market in May next year.

This is a huge discovery that has an important impact on the development of human medicine.

In China, some people are even fantasizing that someone in China will win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this project. When it is announced, the whole world will definitely be shaken, and perhaps, it will be able to get the attention of the jury.

So we'll let you know as soon as there's good news. ”

Wei Hang didn't expect that an inadvertent discovery would have such a big effect. (To be continued......)