Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety Seventh: Not Optimistic

? "Do you want to research custom vaccine technology?"

In the conference room of the research institute, Chen Mo's words made Shi Hongtu and other experts look surprised. Only Wu Bing was relatively calm, and she was a little unbelievable when she knew Chen Mo's thoughts on the road just now.

"Yes." Chen Mo nodded.

Last night, I carefully digested the technical information of the "Customized Vaccine System", and I already had a general idea in my mind.

"Many medical scientists are working on custom vaccine technology, but no one can guarantee when it will be successful. We don't have so much time to study this technology now," said Shi Hongtu.

Including Wu Bing, other expert groups agreed with Shi Hongtu's words.

The concept of customized vaccine technology has already been proposed, and some research progress has also been made. However, in the medical field, customized vaccines are still at the stage of crossing the river by feeling the stones. It is a bit inappropriate to use them in such an emergency virus event.

Their time is only one month now, and the efficacy of the improved HX3 agent can probably delay the epidemic by a month. A month later, the first people to use the modified HX3 agent, the agent lost its effect, and a steady stream of deaths occurred.

"This is the direction I have determined and the most certain of success." Chen Mo said.

Everyone on the field had strange expressions, and Shi Hongtu's eyelids jumped. Customized vaccine technology can be said to be one of the most difficult topics in all current research on specific drugs. Now become Chen Mo's most certain direction? I have to say that Chen Mo's idea is a bit different.

"We don't have much time," said one panelist.

"What is short time? Who can determine which kind of research has the shortest time? Do you want to develop a specific drug within a month? Research this kind of thing, you still don't know? Maybe tomorrow, a team will announce that it has found a specific drug, maybe The extinction of all mankind is not to be found.”

Chen Mo's question made everyone on the field quiet and a little embarrassed. They want to treat patients quickly, but ignore that they are doing research.

They all know that in researching this kind of thing, maybe it will suddenly succeed tomorrow, and maybe it may not be successful when they enter the coffin, it mainly depends on whether the researchers can find the node of that technological breakthrough.

If you can't find the key, it will be in vain to give you a lot of time. If you can find it, the road ahead is smooth.

"Customized vaccine technology is not mature, and the development speed may be slower than other agents.

A grey-haired expert said: "It's better than Academician Chen, you continue to study HX3. The improved HX3 agent has successfully suppressed the Reedman virus. If you make improvements, it may not be able to eliminate the virus." "

This remark made other medical experts nod.

The improved HX3 agent has achieved good results, at least for Reedman virus. This is a certain direction.

"HX3 is only a protease inhibitor. Its effect is limited to inhibiting the replication of viral proteins and making the virus enter a dormant period. It cannot inactivate the virus itself, otherwise its function is not to reduce the activity of the virus. If it can really remove the virus, a From the beginning, the direction of my improvement was not to inhibit its metabolism." Chen Mo said.

HX3 was developed by him for the Starfish Company. He knew all the functions and effects. No matter how he changed it, its function was to reduce the activity of the virus, and the essence could not be changed.

"But custom vaccine technology, this technology is full of too many uncertainties."

"The research direction of Reedman virus specific drugs, you have determined, which direction is correct?" Chen Mo asked.

All the researchers on the field were breathless and unable to answer.

"Did you really decide to research custom vaccines?" Shi Hongtu asked.

He is the leader of the medical team, and his main task is to find a specific drug for Reedman virus as soon as possible. Although he does not agree with Chen Mo's research on customized vaccines, he cannot control Chen Mo's thoughts.

"Yes." Chen Mo nodded.

The scene fell into silence again, and they had no good solution to Chen Mo's insistence.

"Let me tell you what I think."

Wu Bing spoke, and everyone on the field looked at her. As one of the youngest researchers in the medical team, Wu Bing's ability is not lower than others, so his speech still carries a lot of weight.

"Academician Chen formed an independent group to study customized vaccine technology, while others studied reverse enzyme inhibitors. In this way, they are divided into two groups and go hand in hand, at least one more possibility in terms of choice, so as to avoid a dead end."

Shi Hongtu sighed, looking at Chen Mo's posture, it is impossible to give up the research direction of customized antibodies, they said it would be useless. Chen Mo has the right to freely choose any direction of research without restrictions. This is what Chen Mo said when he joined the group.

Now Chen Mo is just notifying them, not asking for their opinions.

"Since Academician Chen insisted, according to what Academician Wu said, the team led by Academician Chen will study customized vaccine technology, and others will study reverse enzyme inhibitors according to the original research plan."

Shi Hongtu finally came to a conclusion.

"Who is willing to join Academician Chen's group to study custom vaccine technology?"

Many experts on the field did not speak. Customized vaccines are usually researched. If they come out, this is a vaccine technology that crosses the era. But now in the time of the virus outbreak, that's not a good choice.

"As before, my team and I will join Academician Chen's group for research," Wu Bing said.

Chen Mo was not surprised by this situation. As he expected, he just nodded slightly to Wu Bing.

"Okay, today's meeting is over, everyone will continue to carry out research, and any progress will be reported immediately for discussion. The current epidemic situation outside is not optimistic."

Shi Hongtu's last sentence made the atmosphere heavy.

...

In a small office of the institute, six researchers sat quietly.

The six people are members of Wu Bing's team, four men and two women. They all look young, and they are all around 30 years old. They are the team with the lowest average age in the medical team. They are all distinguished students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Academy of Sciences, or members of the medical research project team, and the minimum education is a doctor of medicine.

At this time, Chen Mo and Wu Bing were also in the laboratory, and Chen Mo had some documents in his hands.

"Now I'll assign you your own tasks. Our group's task is to customize vaccine technology. This topic is a bit difficult. If you want to speed up the research and development, you must cooperate with me to conduct research."

Chen Mo spoke, and everyone cheered up. Although Chen Mo did not graduate from medical school, from the beginning of the VFV virus to the success of improving the HX3 drug, he has proved his strength in drug research, enough to be a mentor to any of them.

"You are divided into two groups of three or three. The first group, together with Academician Wu, is responsible for isolating the protective antigen gene of the virus and determining the gene sequence. The second group, together with me, builds a system platform for customized vaccines. This is your project information. "

Chen Mo handed the information in his hand to several people.

"This is an epoch-making technology. If it succeeds, it will have a revolutionary effect in the medical field. Medical scientists can quickly produce infectious disease vaccines against a certain disease, and even a mixed vaccine carrying multiple antigens."

The six people were awe-inspiring, and their hearts were hot for a while.

The country is not the hardest hit area, it is relatively calm. But the international medical community is not calm, almost all the famous immunology doctors have been convened to set up a special research group.

The improved HX3 agent can cure the symptoms but not the root cause.

The patient's situation is special, such as severe schizophrenia, and it is also contagious. Countries in the hardest-hit areas are under unprecedented pressure.

Medical facilities and anti-epidemic supplies have been rushed across the board.

Protective clothing, masks, and gloves are all disinfected and reused after use. The chances of some medical personnel being infected are on the rise. Some of the most serious countries, because of the extreme lack of medical facilities, have detained patients in one isolation area under the control of the military's chemical defense forces.

Now with the HX3 agent, the patient regains consciousness and management is relatively simple. But a month later, the backlog of patients has not been cured, the medicine has failed, and the medical facilities are insufficient. When the time comes, the patient loses his mind again, and no one knows what the consequences will be.

As time goes by, there is no good news about the breakthrough of specific medicines in the medical field. Fighting against the people on the front line of medical care began to cast a shadow on my heart. Because the first patients to use the modified HX3 agent are about to face the consequences of drug failure.