I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 510 - 508: Equipment Issues

"...Alright, I understand the situation. Let them use the two Titan machines for now. I will send the maintenance pilot and spare parts over later." In the communications room of the Research Center, Chen Xin was on a call.

After hearing Chen Xin’s response, the person on the other end seemed to say something else, but since Chen Xin had the receiver pressed against his ear, no one else could hear what was being said.

"Vaccine development? I might be able to help with the production, but the research..." Upon hearing the mention of vaccines, Chen Xin had some understanding of the matter, but didn’t quite grasp what the other party meant: "Is there anything I can assist with in this regard?"

Vaccine research and production are two completely different fields. Research essentially involves identifying harmless viruses that can stimulate the human immune system without causing harm or having minimal impact.

Production, on the other hand, involves mass-producing these harmless viruses isolated from the lab and using them for actual medical applications.

The research work itself, from a technical standpoint, doesn’t involve particularly high technology, it’s primarily about isolating the virus strains, then inactivating and attenuating them.

Although modern medicine employs new technologies in these processes to enhance vaccine development efficiency and effectiveness, which is the key focus.

If these elements are disregarded, even using a standard medical school lab with students conducting the operations can achieve similar results.

However, this takes a long time, and the effectiveness of the resulting vaccine is not guaranteed.

It’s like drawing cards from a pool, where ordinary medical students are like non-spenders, relying on daily efforts to gather a few stones and making single draws from pools without guarantees.

Though those with bad luck often see no returns, it can’t be denied that some lucky ones manage to draw miracles with single attempts.

Meanwhile, specialized medical labs are like spenders, who can invest to acquire more stones, drawing from discounted and guaranteed pools, even those with enhanced chances.

Even if luck isn’t favorable, possibly resulting in diversions or failures, spenders have another option: attaining enough draws for a guaranteed obtainment.

So essentially, dealing with a virus, vaccines can generally be developed, it’s merely a matter of development time.

Diseases like smallpox, rabies, tetanus, and HIV fall under those cases where the pools either aren’t implemented yet, or are deep, making results unavailable, hence not suitable for discussion.

The role Chen Xin can play is merely increasing the pool’s chances and reducing guaranteed draw counts, offering discounts so fewer stones and attempts are needed to achieve results.

Though it’s not about having no means to help, the actual assistance he can provide is indeed limited.

What’s more, in terms of modern medical technology, his contribution could be considered a minor enhancement, with negligible impact on actual production.

Since factory production and lab research take divergent paths—labs focus on quick, efficient methods, while production emphasizes cost-effectiveness, accuracy, and stability.

Thus, to achieve similar goals, labs prefer simple and efficient methods, whereas these methods get discarded at production scale.

For instance, the simplest solid-liquid separation, where labs would initially opt for membrane filtration, specifically disposable membrane primary filtration, or more advanced membrane chromatography, where cost isn’t an issue for such small-scale methods!

However, these technologies fail even in pilot production, not feasible at larger scales! Then what?

They have to revert to centrifuges—cheap, stable, and easy to use, with CIP/SIP; not a problem.

In such circumstances, Chen Xin’s ability can play a greater role by upgrading factory equipment to make them more advanced and efficient.

Yet, the person on the call evidently considered these issues, and after saying more, Chen Xin finally agreed and hung up.

Seeing Chen Xin end the call, Tang Tang, who had been standing beside him watching, asked, "What does the higher-up mean? Do they want you to help develop a vaccine?"

"No, it’s the rescue team." Chen Xin shook his head, explained to Tang Tang: "They’ve been in the infected area for a while now and can’t return, but they want to continue developing vaccines yet lack equipment.

The higher-ups hope to provide them with a simple set of usable equipment, and asked if we have any good solutions here, otherwise, the equipment would need air transport from the homeland, which is too troublesome and costly."

After Chen Xin’s explanation, Tang Tang understood, but she still asked curiously, "So why don’t they use Lucia’s equipment? They’re there to help Lucia, surely the Lucians wouldn’t be so stingy as to not lend a set of equipment?"

"The situation in Lucia Capital is very tumultuous; although they’ve deployed troops to suppress it, the condition hasn’t improved. Rioters have blocked the underground passages and are in standoff with the Lucia authorities." Chen Xin conveyed the latest situation from the call to Tang Tang: "Without using heavy weaponry, the Lucia military has no good means of resolving the problem swiftly, so things are dire.

For safety, the rescue team has evacuated from Lucia Capital’s underground city and is staying aboard two ark ships, currently unable to use Lucian equipment and labs."

"Things are truly lousy..." Tang Tang also felt speechless at such a situation, considering one of Blue Planet’s top five powers couldn’t suppress a riot in their own Capital, leaving one uncertain what to say.

Nevertheless, strictly speaking, these matters don’t involve them much, so Chen Xin quickly patted Tang Tang on the shoulder, smiled at her: "Alright, these things we don’t have to ponder over, senior, please help me gather equipment, the task assigned needs completing."

"Okay, I got it." Tang Tang nodded, having been at the Research Center long enough to understand Chen Xin’s "capabilities" and knew how to collaborate with him: "Are you planning to modify some equipment and send it over?"

"Integrate them into a mobile lab, so it’s easier for them to use. Sending just a set of equipment requires additional test site arrangements, which is cumbersome." Chen Xin thought about it, felt that simply upgrading a set of equipment wouldn’t be convenient enough, deciding to create an integrated mobile lab.

Tang Tang merely raised an eyebrow after hearing Chen Xin’s proposal, although surprised, it was something she was used to: "Alright, I’ll make arrangements."