Chapter 676 - Skin in Vitro Multiplication Technique
"Someday, I'm going to make this pennant culture popular in North America." Robert was always confident.
August had been pondering these pennants in his heart, and always felt weird, but he couldn't find anything wrong for a while, so he put the problem aside for the time being, and he sent the pennant template to his assistant, Dr. Marcus.
"Make a flag according to this, exactly the same, and hang it in my office!" August gives Marcus an order.
As for Robert's recommended method, which binds the pennant to the priority of the visit, August has not yet figured out whether it is so radical.
"The professor doesn't seem to be interested in the invitation of the Langnafe company, should we persuade him?" August arranged his personal affairs and began to focus on the more important things.
The operation organized by the Langafe company has been reported in the industry that it will use an extremely advanced skin in vitro doubling technology, which is the result of Maninstein, but the genius is now focusing on the field of spinal cord injury repair and has no interest in this kind of skin in vitro multiplication, so another team funded by the Langafe company took over the project and continued to study the results, and achieved great success.
After Yin Wan, a master of plastic surgery, obtained this new achievement from Langnafei, he made technical improvements from the perspective of plastic surgery, which can control the thickness and color difference of the skin and achieve mature application in the field of plastic surgery.
This technology solves the need for skin in some surgical procedures, it takes a small piece of skin from the human body, and then puts it into a special culture medium outside the body, the skin can grow around, constantly expanding, and the area expands to dozens of times, or even more than a hundred times.
In the past, when patients with burns or skin defects were subjected to autologous skin grafting, the patient's own skin from other parts of the patient, that is, the idea of tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, had a small demand for skin so that it could be coped, but if the demand for skin was very large, such as a patient with a large area of burns all over the body and scars, the traditional method would be powerless.
The new method, which offers almost unlimited access to autologous skin, makes surgery much easier.
"I must persuade, what a good opportunity this is, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the professor's future career to expand his contacts, with the support of Lang Nafei, the professor can go sideways in the medical academia of Europe and the United States, now Lang Naffey does not know the real level of the professor at all, if he knows the real level, it is the master, and he will definitely not just send an invitation letter to explore the way." That's exactly what Robert had in mind.
August shrunk his head and probed at the door of Yang Ping's office, and when he saw that Yang Ping was free, he beckoned to Robert, and the two flashed into Yang Ping's office.
"Something?" Yang Ping looked at the two who were smiling.
August motioned for Robert to speak, for he was better at speaking.
Robert coughed twice: "Professor, we are here to give you advice, it is recommended that you still participate in the surgery invited by Langnafei, and the internal confirmation of the news, this operation is a wide range of scar treatment for patients, using the most advanced skin in vitro multiplication technology, cutting a small area of healthy skin from the patient and putting it in an in vitro artificial cultivation environment for multiplication and cultivation, so that the area of this skin continues to increase, increasing to dozens of times or even a hundred times, and then transplanted to the patient to replace the original scar, which involves some stem cell technology, Of course, understanding this technology is not the most important thing, but more importantly, you can get Lonafel's connections, which will be very helpful for your future research, and this company has signed several Nobel Prizes. ”…
In vitro skin multiplication technology, Yang Ping also understands.
There are also teams in China that are researching, such as the burn team at Changhai Hospital, which is able to use small patches of the patient's skin to expand a thin and transparent epidermal cell layer in vitro.
The patient's autologous epidermal cells can be rapidly expanded by 4,000-10,000 times through 2-3 weeks of in vitro culture, providing patients with a steady stream of skin source, but the skin expanded by this team is a transparent autologous epidermal cell membrane, not a complete thickness of skin, which can be applied in repairing burn wounds, and cannot be applied in plastic surgery for the time being.
If Lonafel's technology is to cultivate full-thickness or medium-thick skin, including epidermis and dermis, it is definitely a leap forward.
"Regarding this technology, I have read Professor Maninstein's paper, at that time the technology was in the experimental stage, did not have the conditions for clinical application, and I have never seen the relevant papers published in the future, is it possible that Langnefe has now made a breakthrough and can be applied to clinical practice?" Yang Ping is more interested in this technology, he is interested in any new technology, and pure technology fanatics are curious about new technologies.
"That's right, the team funded by Lang Naffy has made a breakthrough and can be applied to the clinic, but because the cost is too expensive, about 600,000 US dollars per square centimeter, it is too expensive to be popularized, and it can only be given priority to these wealthy people for the time being." August immediately added.
"This kind of thing is very common in the medical world, such as the longevity injections that have become popular in the rich circle in recent years, ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions per injection, which are actually stem cell injection treatments in the laboratory." Robert answered.
"David Rockefeller, the third-generation descendant of the Rockefeller family in the United States, was the world's first patient with a successful heart transplant, and he lived to be 102 years old, spending $2 billion in his life to successfully replace six hearts in turn." August continued.
Yang Ping's fingers tapped lightly on the office desktop, rhythmically, but without sound.
He refused the operation because he was disgusted with Lonaffe's shady history, which had been criticized for being suspected of organ smuggling, although they later clarified that he had nothing to do with organ smuggling.
If this surgery is indeed as introduced in the invitation letter, it is only a plastic surgery for a patient with burns and post-traumatic sequelae, and does not involve organ transplantation, and it is true that the skin in vitro multiplication technology has reached the point of clinical application, Yang Ping is still a little interested.
At least it shows that this company is still quite outstanding in medical research, and it is better to know more about cutting-edge scientific research results than to know less.
In the field of skin grafting, this in vitro skin augmentation technology can be said to be the top and most mature technology in the world before there is a breakthrough in stem cell cultivation or printing skin technology.
Maninstein's interest in the company shows that it is unique.
Besides, at present, Ruixing's progress in bio-3D printers is very slow, and this cutting-edge technology requires deep accumulation, which can not be surpassed in a short time.
Yang Ping is good at medicine, and he is not good at anything other than medicine, so he can't help Ruixing's 3D printer much.
If we can use the power of this Langafel, I am afraid that the progress of Ruixing's research can be accelerated.
"So, should I go to this surgery?" Yang Ping felt the need to meet this mysterious company and meet legendary figures such as Yin Wan.
"Of course, not only should we go, but we should also be taken with us." Robert said.
"Why?" Yang Ping felt that Robert seemed to be very excited.
"You need an assistant who knows Lonaffe well." Robert was quick to give his reasons.
"No, it's two!" August corrected.
ps: I'm sorry again, some time ago I was too busy with work, so I had to stop changing, and now the situation is getting better and I'm starting to resume the update! Thank you!