Chapter 204 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Cultivation Technology
The female version of Steve Jobs fell, along with her company valued at over $60 billion and her own net worth of $27 billion.
Although when Umbrella started the fight and the powerful performance of the "Red Queen" was demonstrated, when all the people who were beaten before fell down, many people expected that Elizabeth Holmes would also fall down.
But when this moment came, the problems in the academic community were also fully reported.
I thought this was a noble place, a piece of pure land, but now I find it is also a mess!
How much capital uses the academic platform to make profits, and how much capital uses the academic community to achieve its own goals?
It is unknown!
But judging from the people who were beaten out, this must be a lot!
Take the most successful one among them, Elizabeth Holmes, for example, her company is valued at 60 billion!
Are there any others that haven't been discovered?
Will there be people who, relying on their advantages in the academic world, publish some information on the pros and cons of different types of oil and wine to provide guidance?
Or go deep into various items in life!
At this time, Nature was the first top journal to step forward and publicly stated
"We can try to let Red Queen do the initial review, but there will be a transition period. If Umbrella is willing to open the interface, we are willing to try to give half of the submissions to Red Queen, and we will be responsible for the other half manually."
A decent choice.
The situation has become so heated now, if they don't show any sign of support, it might cause even bigger trouble!
After all, whether it was the previous academic discrimination or the subsequent academic fraud, this was indeed a scandal they created.
Especially after Elizabeth Holmes's news broke, it caused a lot of condemnation. Those investors who lost money due to investment pointed the finger at them, saying that they failed to do a good job in supervision!
So much money wasted!
With the lead and template, many top academic journals gradually made the same choice, even domestic journals did the same!
Because such hidden problems exist in the academic community both at home and abroad, it would definitely be a good thing if they could be eradicated.
With this, 'Red Queen' came into contact with her first business, which was a public welfare business, reviewing manuscripts!
With this convenience, Wang Yi can get the latest research papers as soon as possible.
Well, since Red Queen was designed by him, Lin Shiqin can take over at any time, or even temporarily replace him. It can almost be regarded as an electronic subroutine of Lin Shiqin.
It was not until all major journals caught up with the pace, and even saw that the East was following suit, that the many netizens who had been criticizing in the West finally calmed down with satisfaction. They were like victorious generals, returning home with the spoils and listing them on second-hand trading websites.
Then what shocked some domestic netizens was that the short and fat Mexican girl, Lyda, who announced that she would participate in the beauty pageant, actually signed up for the pageant and passed the preliminary election with a vote advantage that far crushed all the others.
Although she just passed the primary election, judging from her vote rate, she is likely to be the champion.
"No way! Are you going to win the beauty pageant?"
"I support this middle-aged lady's criticism of others, but the beauty pageant..., 'horrified'"
"What kind of magic is this? Is there something wrong with my aesthetic sense? Is there such a big gap between the East and the West?"
"I finally understand why they think squinty eyes are beautiful."
“Don’t have stereotypes, find the inner beauty, the scary one.”
Just when the news here had calmed down a little, people on the Internet were still immersed in the aftermath of the incident and waiting for Umbrella to commercialize the function of "Red Queen".
Umbrella announced on its official website a high-profile discovery of their latest result, a result that had been mentioned during the previous dispute with Piero Laboratory, to put an end to this academic action.
"Umbrella Corporation hereby announces that we have made a major breakthrough in the in vitro culture of hematopoietic stem cells. It only takes less than a month to culture enough hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation. We will increase the supply of culture medium to the outside world. Hospitals that meet the surgical qualifications can apply for quotas from our company."
In fact, Piero had said this before. With the help of Umbrella's culture medium, the cultivation and purification processes can be accelerated.
But obviously, what he could do, Umbrella had already invited several experimental teams to put this project into practice!
Now it’s officially announced!
There are four million leukemia patients in China alone, and the number increases by 40,000 every year!
Some leukemias can be controlled by medication, such as the plot in "Dying to Survive", but for some patients with acute leukemia, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the only life-saving method!
Not only is hematopoietic stem cell matching difficult, but there are also very few people who are truly willing to donate. In this case, the number of lucky patients who can receive transplants is actually limited, and the number of transplants each year is about 10,000.
Among these patients, only about 60% can finally succeed!
The most difficult part of this process is the initial chemotherapy and "myeloablation" of the patient's bone marrow, as well as the later immune rejection reaction.
Complications of immune rejection are a major problem in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, even if the matching is successful.
Now Umbrella directly uses the patient's own healthy hematopoietic stem cells for cultivation and implantation. The success rate of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can reach more than 90%!
It’s just that previous autologous stem cell transplants were usually used to target other tumors. The patient’s stem cells were first extracted, followed by chemotherapy, and then the patient’s own stem cells were implanted back. These stem cells might still be mixed with tumor cells, and this was just a way to prolong survival.
But Umbrella's technology is different. After extracting the patient's stem cells, you only need to find an effective stem cell to start cultivating!
And because of the magical properties of the culture medium itself, the cultured stem cells may be even healthier.
When Umbrella officially announced the completion and sent the submission to Nature directly through "Red Queen", it immediately caused an uproar.
Are you, Umbrella Corporation, planning to go to the sky?
Killing like crazy !
Umbrella's contribution can naturally be regarded as a return of favor. After all, it is the first top magazine to openly support "Red Queen".
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
Whether it is stone removal or preventive vaccination, although many people benefit from it, it is not essentially "imminent" because most people themselves don't really care about it.
Although the later hepatitis B-specific immunoglobulin was a breakthrough in the virus field and was of milestone significance, before it came out, hepatitis B could also be effectively controlled through combination medication!
It's not a deadly disease like leukemia.
But once it succeeds and becomes popular, it will truly be a lifesaver!
Of course, because this cultivation process requires not only culture medium but also the identification of effective cells from the patient's body and the cultivation and monitoring over time, the essential cost and expense is much higher than the previous 710-course treatment of hepatitis B-specific immunoglobulin.
Although the cost of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is much cheaper than allogeneic transplantation and the subsequent costs are also lower, it still costs about 100,000 yuan. Add to that the cost of cultivation itself, and the overall price is still not cheap.
But at least this provides a life-saving channel, no longer having to wait for a match! Waiting for a donor!
This is a technology that can truly save lives instantly!
Moreover, Umbrella actually said that any hospital that is qualified to perform surgery can apply for culture medium quotas and can arrange for personnel to come and learn the culture process. This move has really received praise from everyone.
Even if Umbrella eventually wants to sell the culture medium to make money, and the price of the culture medium is not cheap, at least this behavior can win the favor of most people.
The only ones who are hostile are probably some institutions that conduct research on targeted drugs for leukemia...
