Chapter 453
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Because he knew this person, he was the Hu Xuefeng he met before when he was in Puhai, China.
At that time, he wanted to collect living expenses from the United States and had to pawn a set of Taizu porcelain from his family's ancestors to the public, but was bullied by his bully classmate.
In the end, he helped him to clear the siege and spent four million to buy the set of Taizu porcelain in his hand.
Later when he came to New York, he went to the fruit station and went to Columbia University to report, and he drove him there.
During that time, whenever I had time, I drove him to Manhattan and New York. The purpose was to let him adapt to life here as soon as possible. This kid is quite good at it.
It is said that he was not at home, and during the time he went to Boston and London, he often came to the store to help him voluntarily.
Later, it was because he seemed to have found a temporary worker, so the institute didn't come often, otherwise Jin Muchen would have seen him once or twice a week at his home.
When Hu Xuefeng brought coffee, he was stunned when he saw him. His expression was very happy. However, when he was about to speak to him, Jin Muchen gave him a wink and signaled him to talk to him later.
This kid is much smarter now than when he saw him in China before. When he saw Jin Muchen's eyes, he closed his mouth and then took the tea tray out.
At this time, Scott also started to focus on the topic, took out some points of PPT and started to show them the scientific research results of Weigang Laboratory on the whiteboard in front of the conference room.
"Kim Harvey, I think I don't need to say much about the application of 3D printing technology in the medical field. You all know. Now, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Miami are in the leading position. But the research and development of my laboratory is different from theirs. Now we are targeting human bones and alternative joints..."
Scott began to speak, and Jin Muchen also raised his energy and listened.
He used to study pharmacology, although he did not specialize in clinical medicine. But he generally understood what Scott said.
Modern medicine, especially in orthopedics, has several problems, one of which is bone replacement.
Nowadays, femoral head necrosis. Many people have heard of the main causes of this disease, on the one hand, ischemic femoral head necrosis, on the other hand, bone necrosis caused by human aging, and on the other hand, femoral head necrosis caused by the abuse of hormone drugs.
Moreover, the concurrency rate of this disease is increasing year by year worldwide, especially in economically developed regions such as North America and Europe, where the concurrency rate of this disease is increasing at a rate of 20% every year.
Many people may not understand that this disease is not a disease of wealth, so why is the incidence rate among Europeans and Americans so high?
Of course, this has a lot to do with the eating habits of Europeans and Americans. As we all know, there is a very important variety in the staple food of Europeans and Americans, that is beef. It can even be said that many meats have several times the population of East Asia and even other parts of the world. Even dozens of times.
Intake of large amounts of meat is of great importance to the development of the human body, but it also has very bad disadvantages.
For example, eating too much meat will cause problems such as three highs and obesity, and on the other hand, it is the problem of bone necrosis.
Because people like to eat meat, this has indirectly stimulated the great development of animal husbandry in developed countries such as Europe and the United States. There are almost no such animal husbandry industry that does not use a large amount of auxin.
For example, chickens that are slaughtered in forty days or pigs that are slaughtered in three months or beef cattle that are shaped in one year. Many of the reasons why these animals grow so quickly are caused by various hormones.
People who eat this meat in large quantities will of course consume various excessive hormones.
This is also the main reason why we see that so many European and American boys and girls are very precocious, have strong body hair and obvious secondary sexual characteristics.
It is precisely because of this excessive intake of hormones that have led to frequent occurrence of various strange diseases in Europe and the United States in recent years. Although this bone necrosis disease is not a strange disease, the incidence rate in Europe and the United States has been significantly increasing in recent decades.
When Jin Muchen was in school, he had read statistics from relevant medical institutions. In 2013, in the entire North America, due to femoral head necrosis, surgery to replace bones was required, so he had hundreds of thousands of cases...
This data may not sound high, but what does this mean? You should know that the entire economically developed region of North America, except Mexico, can only supply more than 300 million people...
There are hundreds of thousands of people every year, and they have to undergo surgery to change bones every year. Moreover, the rate of the disease is increasing at a rate of 20% per year. What does this mean?
This means a market with huge growth potential!
Most of the femoral head replacement products that require surgery are titanium alloy products. This thing has the least irritation to human muscle tissue and is not toxic, so it can be used for a long time.
But this thing is metal after all, and if this bone is implanted into the body, it may cause inflammation. Moreover, people with different constitutions have different rejection reactions to this replacement.
Some people may need to take medicine for a long time, while some people may cause other strange allergic symptoms. In short, countless people are worried about this implanted replacement every year.
Now Scott and his scientific research project were created to target this replacement.
Their ultimate goal is to use this 3D printer to print out real human bones and replace them into the human body.
Once this replacement substance is replaced into the human body, there is no need to worry about the later rejection reaction, and there is no need to worry about inflammation, allergies and other problems caused by inadequate adaptation to metal implants.
After listening to Scott and his friends' introduction, Jin Muchen also became interested and asked several questions, such as how far their progress has reached, etc.
Scott and the others also took out a lot of printed finished products and showed them to Jin Muchen so that he could have a direct understanding.
Even Scott and the others gave him a live display in front of Jin Muchen, and directly printed a small piece of human bone tissue.
After watching it, Jin Muchen felt very satisfied. It seems that this project is coming right.
You should know that before coming, he also searched the Internet and roughly learned about the bones and joints of the 3D printing of human body.
Nowadays, many universities and medical research institutions are doing research on this aspect, but they are all trapped in material ratios, processing process processes, and how to design 3D printing procedures, and progress is extremely slow.
Unexpectedly, Weigang has already overcome most of the problems, and now I have seen some of this project.
"It can be said that we have made breakthrough progress in femoral head replacement. What we lack now is the funds to start clinical trials. I have contacted several hospitals in California, and they are willing to use our finished products to do the experiment, but the premise is that we also need funds to start the project."
Scott said this, looking at Jin Muchen's eyes were already filled with some expectations.
Jin Muchen arrived and didn't say much, but looked at Scot and nodded: "What about your next project? What is the future prospect?"
"We are now preparing for the next stage of scientific research project, and what we are preparing to overcome in this project is knee replacement..."
Hearing Scott say this, Jin Muchen's eyes lit up suddenly. This guy is really smart. It seems that he is not only a scientific research talent, but also has a bad market vision!
You should know that knee replacement can be said to be the most commonly used human bone replacement in the world.
The number of knee replacement surgery cases worldwide is as high as millions every year, and the proportion is also due to a rapid increase.
Moreover, such surgeries are often reported in economically developed countries such as Europe, the United States, Japan, etc. In recent years, the number of such surgeries in China has increased year by year.
Rheumatoid arthritis, and degenerative joint lesions in the elderly, are the main causes of this surge in surgery.
In Jin Muchen's opinion, this disease is a necessary process for almost every elderly person. Those who have money will undergo surgery, while those who don't have money can only take a wheelchair or use crutches...
The reason for this is of course related to the people's clothes here. You can often see young European and American girls on TV wearing short skirts on the streets in the middle of winter, and even in the weather above zero or within ten degrees, they also have two long legs on the outside. On the one hand, it is because they often have high-calorie foods and are really not afraid of the cold. On the other hand, it is because they love beauty.
But if you think that if Chinese people learn to wear that way, you will definitely be funny...
Don’t look at the joy of being young, you have to make a list when you are old.
Degenerative joint lesions and rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly in Europe and the United States are the worst-hit areas, and almost everyone after the age of fifty will have such a disease.
So in Jin Muchen's view, this is also a market with great potential.
After hearing this, Jin Muchen already felt that Scott's philosophy had touched him. Just for their scientific research direction, his research institute is worth investing in.
In the medical market, mainstream knee replacements are also titanium alloy products. After implanting this replacement, many patients will not only not relieve the pain, but will recurrence inflamed the knee due to rejection reactions, which requires a lot of medicine.
Chapter completed!