City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1566 - 1565: Discovering a More Effective Antiviral Drug
Ye Qiu returned to the laboratory and began experimenting with this hormone on the white mice to see the effect of the hormone drug on the virus-infected mice.
Compared to humans, these white mice are much smaller in every aspect, and this virus quickly reproduces massively within them.
After the hormone drug was injected into the mice, the male and female assistants began recording observations.
Meanwhile, Ye Qiu continued researching another, more effective drug, convinced that it could be found.
He believed that a drug containing a protein enzyme should be able to inhibit the massive reproduction of the virus.
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In another laboratory, Zhang Yilin and his team compared the research data from Ye Qiu with his own research.
Professor Zhang was surprised that the young man’s principle for virus component analysis was actually superior to his own, truly astonishing him.
How did this young man achieve it?
Unexpectedly, by the fourth day, Ye Qiu had already found a hormone drug that effectively inhibited virus multiplication, and he had already had the assistants test it on mice.
"Professor Zhang, should we try Dr. Ye’s hormone drug?"
"If we use his results, the days we spent would be wasted. You all continue with the research. It seems there is more than one drug that can inhibit this virus. However, Dr. Ye’s virus component analysis is quite commendable, and we can pursue research based on this idea."
Director Wei and Ma Wenwen were waiting outside for news from Ye Qiu’s lab, while Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting heard that Ye Qiu had left the lab only to shower before returning.
The two women felt Ye Qiu was working too hard. Even during their time in Jinling, they had never seen him so relentless.
So, the two of them couldn’t understand why Ye Qiu was like this.
Was it because of Ye Qiu’s noble medical ethics, or something else?
Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting found this all the more confusing.
Meanwhile, more personnel from relevant departments entered the containment zone, mainly to investigate the skeletal remains, coffins, and cave bats on the mountains.
Others were searching for the South China tiger, as there were claims of tiger roars being heard, making them believe that so many people couldn’t be mistaken.
Currently, the containment zone is much livelier than the previous death zone, and these people seemed no longer afraid of catching that infectious disease.
Luo Wenfeng observed the patients’ conditions. Although he had recovered, he no longer held the ambition he once did, feeling incomparable to Dr. Ye.
Originally, he sought to study medication through the viruses from these infected patients.
However, it was easier said than done. Until Ye Qiu found the virus-carrying bats, obtaining viruses directly from them, it became unnecessary to extract viruses from patients.
Now Luo Wenfeng felt his team seemed useless, only occasionally checking the patients’ conditions at best.
"Chief Luo, Director Wei mentioned that Dr. Ye seems to have developed an effective anti-viral hormone drug," a male doctor said.
Previously, upon hearing such statements, Luo Wenfeng would have refuted them, not believing in Ye Qiu’s capabilities.
But now, he dared not say such things, believing that young man might be far more capable than he imagined.
However, why did the other party claim to be a Chinese doctor?
Researching virus principles and studying pharmacology are tasks for Western medicine, something he, an overseas returnee, might not always manage.
Yet, that young man could accomplish them in such a short time.
"He might be a genius," Luo Wenfeng could only conclude.
He considered Ye Qiu a genius, thus leaving no room for doubt.
Moreover, Ye Qiu himself was part of a support team from Jinling. If he weren’t capable, he wouldn’t have traveled such a great distance.
Ye Qiu researched in the lab, seeking the kind of protein enzyme that can attack the virus, knowing that with external protein enzyme attacks, the virus would definitely counterattack.
Ye Qiu observed whether the protein enzyme could function this way to inhibit virus growth.
The thought of finding a drug that could completely kill the virus seemed impossible to him. Except outside the body, complete eradication might be feasible.
However, inside the human body, it might end up killing many normal cells along with the virus.
Under such circumstances, Ye Qiu realized finding a drug that could kill the virus inside the body was likely impossible.
Yet, Ye Qiu was now certain that if the protein enzyme had effects similar to the hormone drug, then it would be easier to find this protein enzyme in external medications. Even in large-scale infections, this protein enzyme medication could manage the situation.
This would count as successfully controlling the epidemic!
Ye Qiu watched under the microscope as the protein enzyme attacked the viruses in the culture apparatus. Initially, there was little effect.
But by the afternoon, as the viruses in the culture apparatus multiplied, the protein enzymes began to spread and attack, looking like a battle under the microscope.
Ye Qiu pulled back his gaze, and when he took a break to drink some water, he noticed Professor Zhang approaching and said, "Professor Zhang, you’ve come at the right time. I’ve noticed that the effect of this protein enzyme on the viruses is increasingly potent."
Protein enzymes?
With various types of protein enzymes, which ones was Ye Qiu referring to?
"Which protein enzymes is Dr. Ye referring to?" Before, Zhang Yilin respected Ye Qiu for saving his life.
But now, his respect stemmed entirely from being impressed by Ye Qiu’s knowledge. Just from Ye Qiu’s discovery of virus tool principles and components, it was more than any ordinary university professor could achieve. Even he had spent a long time without uncovering the viral attack principles.
Unexpectedly, Ye Qiu uncovered it in just a day and night.
Moreover, hearing that the hormone drug inhibiting the virus had been found, he came to investigate, and now, there was another discovery of a protein enzyme.
As a medical professor, Zhang Yilin certainly knew about the roles of various protein enzymes, and understood that protein enzymes could catalyze, inhibit, and decompose.
However, explaining protein enzymes isn’t something that can be done in just a few words.
