Chapter 198 Academic Thunderstorm
The Harvard Center for Regenerative Medicine is a top-notch medical institution in the U.S., with the most advanced equipment and team.
Piero, director of the Regeneration Center and professor at Harvard Medical School, is one of the world's top cardiovascular experts and can even be said to be a leading figure.
In particular, a paper he proposed in 2001 on the repair of cardiomyocytes by c-kit+ stem cells caused excitement in the global medical community!
The high differentiation and inability to recover of cardiomyocytes has always been one of the most troublesome problems in various heart diseases. Current treatments can only take conservative approaches to reduce further damage.
If a solution to the repair can be found, even if it remains in the laboratory stage, it will be enough for all kinds of capital to pour in money.
A large number of medical institutions around the world have invested heavily.
As for Piero, who had already completed an experiment in the laboratory, he was invested a lot.
The limelight is unparalleled!
Over the past decade, various capital investments have been tested in attempts to recover, but all have failed without exception.
Gradually, some people began to raise doubts.
However, Piero himself is a leading figure in the cardiovascular field. With his own influence, plus a group of people cheering him on, and those who rely on this field to write papers and defraud funds, the opposition voices have been suppressed!
But fake is fake after all, more and more money is being wasted, and now the doubts are getting louder and louder.
For Piero, he could only suppress such voices by delivering some results from time to time.
Therefore, he must have complete control over his laboratory and be the real laboratory tyrant, with the final say.
No one in his team can question him, and no one can disobey him.
Now he not only represents himself, he also represents the capital behind him and even other capital that has invested a lot of money in this field.
Failure is not allowed at such a high cost!
Even if it cannot be restored, it must be worth continuing to study!
In fact, even the capital supporting Piero now knows that there is a huge pit here, but they cannot accept to invest such a huge amount of money and go to waste!
They continue to play music and describe this prospect to lure more people in, so that they will have a chance to withdraw.
If it really doesn't work, you can make some placebo-like health products, hype them up and sell them to make some money back...
In the laboratory of the Regeneration Center, Piero looked at the data provided by the researcher with a gloomy face and said angrily:
"Who allowed you to fill it out like this?! Go back and do it! Give it to me after the conversion rate has increased by 5 basis points!"
The researcher's face turned pale and he felt bitter in his heart when he heard what Piero said.
In fact, he has already added a lot, and adding more? This is too fake!
In the past, we could say that the inability to reproduce was due to poor technology, but with such beautiful data, if we can’t even reach one-tenth of the data, then we will definitely be exposed.
But since the tyrant had spoken, he could only sigh and turn back to continue his "experiment".
At this moment, a young and beautiful female researcher came running over and said to Piero with a horrified expression on her face:
"Professor, this is bad. Umbrella Corporation has publicly questioned our data fraud! There are a lot of reposts on the TT platform now! Even a certain person and a certain book have started to share it."
"What? Who gave them the courage?!"
Piero became furious when he heard this, like an angry lion, with a fierce light in his eyes.
Now data falsification is his Achilles' heel, and as time goes by, the pressure he faces is increasing.
But after hearing what the beautiful researcher said, I felt an overwhelming pressure.
Umbrella Corporation!
It's them!
As a big shot in the medical field, he always wants to solve the problems at hand and turn the fake into real. It is impossible for him not to pay attention to today's top drugs.
Umbrella is such a terrifying existence.
He even used his connections to get some of Umbrella's special culture medium!
It’s true that this culture medium is really useful. Although it still cannot differentiate cardiomyocytes, it can make it easier to start the in vitro culture of stem cells.
He even wondered whether he should directly transform this stem cell culture method into results to dilute the previous impact of the myocardial cells!
After all, hematopoietic stem cells themselves are of great significance for the treatment of leukemia.
Current leukemia surgery relies on injecting mobilization agents into the donor's body and then extracting stem cells from the blood. On the other hand, all of the leukemia patient's cells, both pathological and healthy, are killed in the bone marrow, and then the donor's stem cells are injected, thus completing homing and achieving the purpose of cure.
The biggest limitation of this operation, apart from the funding of the operation itself, is that matching is extremely difficult. Moreover, although bone marrow extraction is no longer required, the injection of the mobilization agent itself is uncomfortable. How many people are willing to donate?
He felt that if he could achieve mass production of stem cells in vitro through this culture medium, it would be enough to make up for his previous mistakes!
Well, but unfortunately, the culture medium belongs to someone else, and now they have come to question his problem, which gives Piero quite a headache.
Looking closely at the report in front of him and then at the direction of public opinion, Piero simply threw himself into the fight. With no way out, he might as well go for the big one!
Afterwards, he began to call the financial sponsor behind him to discuss the next response...
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Recently, it can be said that both domestic and foreign networks have been involved in an academic fraud incident.
The cause of the incident is actually still related to Wang Yi.
The academic discrimination against Ge Chai at the beginning, and the related papers on stone-dissolving medicine published in The Lancet later, have pushed the issue of discrimination in the academic community to the forefront.
Therefore, the previous paper on hepatitis B immunoglobulin published in Nature specifically emphasized that this was the first submitter with data.
In this atmosphere, Umbrella Corporation suddenly used this name to say that not only was there a serious problem of discrimination in the academic world, but there was also a large amount of fraud because of the white people's mutual protection.
Among them, the stem cell myocardial repair experiment that wasted a lot of manpower and material resources was mentioned, and detailed experimental data was given.
Not only did he submit the article directly to Nature, he also used his identity as the controller of the overseas version of TT to spread the information.
The public opinion about academic discrimination has been getting more and more intense. It is no longer just racial discrimination, but all kinds of "vulnerable groups" have jumped out.
At this time, Umbrella directly dropped a bombshell on them, telling them that this group of people will not only discriminate against you, but will also cover up their own fraud!
What will happen if this sound comes out?
It exploded instantly, detonating all domestic and foreign online media.
People in China originally didn't care much about this kind of thing, but the one who caused it was Master Yi, and many people also had a good impression of Umbrella.
Plus, the melon tasted delicious, so people started to watch.
After the simultaneous translation, it is much easier to eat melons outside...
