Chapter 339: Telomerase or Life Extension?

After sitting down, Jin Dong suddenly asked Zhao Sheng a question: "Senior brother, do you think that in the current severe medical environment, where is the way out for doctors?" ”

"Huh?"

"That's not a problem at all."

Zhao Sheng was a little surprised when he heard Jin Dong suddenly ask, but he still replied.

"How so? Junior, I'd like to hear your thoughts. ”

Jin Dong nodded and continued, Zhao Sheng always has some unexpected ideas, as well as some unique perspectives, which is why he is such a tall and widowed person can have such a good relationship with Zhao Sheng.

"It's not so much where the way out is for the profession of doctors, but where the way out is for an individual doctor."

"I think there are a lot of options, such as going ashore for public examinations, engaging in Internet medical care, and private hospitals."

Zhao Sheng thought about it and said seriously.

To use an inappropriate analogy, where is the way out for those who pick up rags and sleep in parks, the gods of Internet cafes of emerging forces in cities, those who step on sewing machines, left-behind children, and the elderly in rural areas?

In this comparison, in fact, there is no special thing about doctors.

In the final analysis, when it comes to the individual, it is where your personal way out is, whether to continue to lie dormant and endure, waiting for the dawn to come, or to bravely jump out of this strange circle and find a new world of your own.

"I'm relieved that you can think like this."

Jin Dong was very satisfied with Zhao Sheng's answer, nodded and said.

"Professor Yu and I met at a meeting, and I have already told him about this."

After a pause, Jin Dong said again.

If it had been before, Yu Zhongbo would not have agreed to Zhao Sheng going to any high-end medical center at all, of course, in the past, there was no need to come out of a large tertiary school like the First Affiliated Hospital.

"In the future, the clinical affairs of the stem cell therapy center will be handed over to you, in addition to the resource quota that must be used for stem cell research and development, the rest of the rest, if you want to do some research and development, you will also be up to you."

Jin Dong said very casually, in fact, he felt that Zhao Sheng, a junior, was also very talented in scientific research, so this time, maybe it was an opportunity for Zhao Sheng to switch from clinical to scientific research.

"I want to deepen the application of artificial intelligence in the medical field, as well as brain-computer interfaces."

Zhao Sheng nodded and said.

Scientific research in the medical field, in addition to the research and development of drugs for the treatment of various diseases, is a hardware facility.

In the case of R&D of drugs, not to mention the large investment time, it is even more laborious and laborious to develop and put them into the market.

For example, the development of artificial intelligence diagnostic software, brain-computer interfaces, and even the stem cell therapy developed by Jindong will have no problem in putting drugs into the market.

"This direction is good, just like stem cell therapy, I chose this direction for research, because this treatment is extremely individualized, which has a great advantage, in the same field, even if there are peers in this field, everyone is deeply involved in this market, and there will be no extremely fierce competition in traditional drugs."

Jin Dong said with deep sympathy.

The choice of research direction is indeed very important.

For example, no matter how talented you are, you are always inspired to develop a drug that specifically targets a certain disease.

At first glance, it seems that if this drug is developed, it will be put on the market and benefit patients.

But is it really that simple?

You must know that the potential patient population of each disease is a very large order of magnitude, and the special drugs for the treatment of this disease correspond to extremely exaggerated economic benefits.

Chances are, if you develop the front foot, the back foot will be owned by someone else.

Even if you have a little background and strength, and you are lucky enough to keep this result, then the follow-up market launch, channels, sales, pricing, and bidding are more difficult to solve than a problem.

However, stem cell therapy, an individualized treatment, does not have such a problem.

Even with the investment of BL Group, the stem cell treatment center established by Jindong can only meet the medical needs of a small number of people, so to some extent, there is no competition.

You have your market, I have my market, for a long, long time, this market will not be saturated, because stem cell therapy is not the kind of thing that a few people can do with a grass platform.

"Actually, what I want to study most is telomerase, but at present, it is difficult to have this kind of research conditions."

Zhao Sheng nodded and said.

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex composed of telomeric reverse transcriptase (hTERT), telomerase RNA components (hTR), and telomerase-associated proteins. Telomerase uses the RNA carried by its own hTR as a template, and synthesizes telomere repeats to the end of chromosomes under the reverse transcription catalysis of hTERT, which lengthens or stabilizes the telomeres that are progressively shortened with cell division, and plays an important role in cell immortalization and the occurrence and development of malignant tumors.

We all know that the reason why people are aging, in fact, is that the number of cells that die is too much, if the number of new cells in the human body is less than the number of dead cells, the phenomenon of senescence will occur, and the insufficient number of new cells is related to telomerase.

If the human body is supplemented with telomerase factor, after the human body absorbs it, it can effectively activate the cellular telomerase in the body, enhance the activity of telomerase, gradually nourish the growth of telomerase, promote cell division, and achieve the effect of delaying aging.

On the other hand, many people will have memory decline when they get older, but in fact, the memory function of the human body is borne by the memory proteins in the brain. The synthesis of memory proteins is also affected by telomerase activity, so supplementing telomerase factor can promote brain development, improve neural tissue, and enhance memory by stimulating telomerase activity.

Prolonging life, enhancing memory, and promoting brain development, just these three telomerase enzymes have a role, and they have great research value.

"Senior brother, your ideals are quite ambitious, and now many people are pinning their hopes for prolonging life or even immortality on the research of telomerase, but even if we establish a laboratory that does not preliminarily study telomerase, it is not something that our current conditions can achieve."

"But let's do it step by step, let's do a good job of this stem cell treatment center first."

Jin Dong said with a smile.

He has always believed that if Zhao Sheng switches from clinical to scientific research, he will be able to make greater achievements, and this kind of achievement is not comparable to curing one or two patients.

Listening to the chat between Jin Dong and Zhao Sheng, Teacher Tang and Tang Wen couldn't help but glance at each other.

The two of them chatted endlessly and were engrossed, as if they had completely forgotten about their respective girlfriends.

(End of chapter)