Chapter 213 - 189: Successful Surgery! The Birth of a Legend

Chapter 213: Chapter 189: Successful Surgery! The Birth of a Legend

"Director Fu, I have a request. After seeing Director Shen’s immunotherapy plan today, I am filled with admiration and anticipation. When the time comes for the surgery, would it be possible for me to lead my department’s key physicians in observing the procedure remotely online?"

"This would be purely for academic exchange and learning. As for the patient’s condition and information, I will ensure complete confidentiality."

Hearing Dean Chen’s request, Director Fu was, of course, deeply honored. To receive recognition from Dean Chen’s team was a point of pride for their surgical team.

"Of course. Once Director Shen has finalized the immunotherapy plan, we will begin arranging the surgery. I will notify you in advance, Dean Chen."

After Director Fu and Dean Chen came to an agreement, the remote consultation ended.

"Director Shen, we’re counting on you for what comes next."

Dean Song was also in high spirits. He hadn’t expected Shen Siyuan to be able to produce a plan that would so deeply impress even Dean Chen.

"Alright. I’ll head back now and work with my team to formulate the specific immunomodulatory therapy plan."

Having just conceived of such a brilliant plan, Shen Siyuan’s spirits were high. With the core immunomodulatory mechanism established, she believed that refining and implementing it wouldn’t be difficult. After all, she had extensive related experience from her time in cardiac surgery.

"Huang Dian, Wu Ting, follow me back to the lab. We’ll do some further refinement on the design and try to have a plan ready within the next two days."

Shen Siyuan beckoned to the two young researchers and walked briskly out of the conference room, ready to put her skills to the test.

Huang Dian and Wu Ting followed behind the light-footed Shen Siyuan.

Huang Dian couldn’t help but admire Wu Ting’s calm and composed demeanor.

Soon, the three of them arrived at the laboratory, and Shen Siyuan prepared to start refining the plan.

"Huang Dian, you will assist me with a laboratory quantitative fluorescence measurement of Th1 cells, SIGIRR+ cells, NKG2A+ NK cells, and Treg cells... The procedure is: pre-denaturation at 95°C for 30s, denaturation at 95°C for 5s, 40 cycles, and annealing at 60°C for 30s. Use β-actin as the reference gene..."

Shen Siyuan began giving instructions. These operational procedures were fairly routine for a lab, so Huang Dian had essentially no problem with them.

"Wu Ting, in a moment, you’ll follow my instructions and help perform an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay..."

Shen Siyuan paused to think. ’Wu Ting probably isn’t too familiar with this procedure. After all, his experience is more clinical than lab-based.’

So, she pulled a pen and a folded piece of paper from her pocket, planning to unfold it and jot down some key steps and operational data. That way, as long as Wu Ting had a high school-level understanding of chemistry, he would be able to complete the subsequent tasks.

However, as Shen Siyuan unfolded the paper, she saw a familiar diagram on the scrap sheet.

Looking at the diagrams, Shen Siyuan’s pupils dilated. ’Aren’t these the schematic diagrams for the core immunoregulatory mechanism I just deduced?’

’And Wu Ting’s drawings are far more precise and perfect than my own.’

’They just lack a few key annotations and supplementary details.’

At that moment, how could Shen Siyuan not understand what had happened?

Her face flushed red as she looked sharply at Wu Ting, momentarily at a loss for words.

"Wu Ting, so you had already figured out this core immunoregulatory mechanism before the consultation? You found that the single immunoglobulin interleukin-1 receptor-related protein (SIGIRR) is the key to negative immunoregulation in HBV-related primary hepatocellular carcinoma?"

Shen Siyuan finally asked the question, her voice tinged with shame. ’Did I just plagiarize my student’s academic work? And the worst part is, I didn’t even realize it. A moment ago, in front of Dean Song, Dean Chen, and Director Fu, I presented it so flawlessly.’

"Wu Ting, I..."

Shen Siyuan suddenly felt she had wronged Wu Ting. She had stolen his work, albeit unintentionally. For someone like Shen Siyuan, who had a kind of moral purism, this was very difficult to accept.

She found it hard to face him.

"Teacher Shen, it’s true that I had some preliminary ideas about this core immune mechanism and had even formed a framework. However, some key points were still missing."

"So, just now, after you saw my rough draft, you retained a visual memory of it. Then, prompted by Dean Chen’s questions, you instinctively combined it with your solid foundation in immunological principles. Drawing upon your vast accumulated knowledge, you deduced the entire process again, and in doing so, you filled in the gaps and perfected my initial draft."

"It can’t be considered stealing my plan. You merely borrowed the general idea. The final plan was still derived from your own profound expertise."

"I was actually just about to ask you for guidance on this. I never expected that during the consultation, you would demonstrate the full deduction for me, refining my crude and incomplete immunoregulatory mechanism into a concrete, optimized principle."

"This was the best feedback you could have possibly given me. I am grateful for the lesson."

Wu Ting delivered this heap of praise with a perfectly straight face.

"Teacher, if you don’t believe me, you can look at my draft. You’ll see that it’s missing key information, all of which you completed thanks to your profound expertise. A scientific proof cannot have a single missing link."

"So, strictly speaking, I proposed a hypothesis, and you, Teacher, followed my line of thought to complete the proof and deduction."

"Overall, this immunoregulatory mechanism should be considered a joint effort between us, master and student!"

After Wu Ting finished his calm explanation, Shen Siyuan looked at his manuscript, then back at her own final proof.

She realized he was right.

"Besides, you were the one who guided me onto the path of immunology in the first place, Teacher. You were also the one who introduced me to Director Fu and Professor Jin. In fact, throughout this entire process of discovery, you have been the crucial driving force."