Masterful Miracle Doctor

Chapter 1117 - 1077: Optimal Comfort Value

After finishing an unusually lavish dinner, Lin Jie went to the study, turned on the computer, and found that Alek's email had automatically unlocked.He entered the five passwords provided by Shen Lanruo again, but it still indicated the password was incorrect.

Lin Jie gently reminded, "Sister Lanruo, if we enter one more wrong password, it will be locked again."

"Think it over again, what else could Alek use as a password? Perhaps someone memorable, or even an enemy."

"Ah, speaking of enemies, he really does have one!"

Shen Lanruo softly laughed in Lin Jie's mind, "I happened to learn about this person from Alek's classmates."

"During his middle school years, Alek was constantly bullied by a blonde girl, until she suffered some huge embarrassment and transferred away."

"What huge embarrassment?" Lin Jie asked curiously.

Shen Lanruo laughed, "It's said that the girl suddenly had an epileptic seizure while secretly with her boyfriend on campus, nearly biting her boyfriend's private parts off."

"Hmm, epilepsy, maybe the password is that girl's name."

"Let me think…"

After a moment, Shen Lanruo's cheerful voice rang in Lin Jie's mind, "I remember now, the blonde girl is named Tamara, yes, she's called Tamara."

"Ah Jie, quickly try it!"

Lin Jie confirmed the spelling of Tamara, then typed it in letter by letter, pressing the enter key lightly.

The "wrong password" prompt did not appear, Lin Jie immediately cheered, "It worked!"

The webpage transitioned, and the emails loaded.

Lin Jie saw that the inbox and draft folder contained hundreds and dozens of emails respectively.

Opening the inbox and flipping through dozens of pages consecutively, he discovered that all the emails in the inbox were spam.

He then opened the draft folder and found this was where Alek kept his documents.

He opened the latest email, clicked on the attachment, and found it was password-protected.

This time, the password provided by Shen Lanruo worked, requiring only two tries to open the attached document.

It was a draft of a research report.

The preface of the report stated that a compact and precise device had been successfully developed.

Alek had named it the Epilepsy Treatment Device.

The preface also stated that this epilepsy treatment device could trigger a surge of bioelectrical currents from the diseased brain regions, stabilizing the bioelectric currents and brain waves in the brain's affected regions, thus preventing epileptic seizures.

After reading the preface, Lin Jie felt a sense of déjà vu.

He opened another webpage and performed a keyword search, indeed finding several articles introducing micro-nano biochip technology.

These articles stated that the technology, through the United States' HC fully digital epilepsy focus positioning system, could intelligently locate epileptic foci.

It then executes precise positioning, finally implanting the micro-nano biochip on top of the focus, using the biochip to intelligently regulate intracranial nerve excitability and weak currents triggering abnormal seizures, thereby completely curing epilepsy.

The article was written comprehensively, analyzing the matters in a thorough manner.

It specifically noted that the micro-nano biochip technology is an integrated systematic treatment approach.

It poses no surgical risk, does not require medication, and is safer without needing craniotomy like traditional treatments. Due to the biochip intelligently regulating the excitability of intracranial nerves and weak currents triggering abnormal seizures, patients experience no risk or pain throughout the treatment process.

The treatment method remarkably shows significant effects, post-treatment, patients no longer need lifelong medication, and have no concerns about drug side effects.

As an industry veteran, Lin Jie knew the analysis of epilepsy's etiology in this article was accurate.

Epilepsy is a clinical phenomenon caused by abnormal, excessively hyper-synchronized discharges of brain neurons.

The treatment approach is theoretically feasible.

But, this micro-nano biochip?

Let's talk when biochip manufacturing technology makes breakthrough development in decades or a hundred years.

From these articles, Lin Jie found that the hospitals claiming to possess such absolutely advanced global technology were all unheard of.

The world's pioneering advanced treatment methods, due to funding and capability, are first applied in notable, comprehensive large hospitals.

Such obscure, nameless hospitals claiming to possess the world's unique, most advanced treatment technology, able to treat diseases even top-tier hospitals cannot.

Is that possible?

These hospitals clearly are deceptive, luring people with cutting-edge technical slogans, operated by unscrupulous parties.

Could it be that Alek was using conceptual disguises to scam R&D funds or investors' money, and once exposed, was taken down by angry investors?

Lin Jie, filled with curiosity and a bit of disdain, continues to read slowly.

Seeing this, Lin Jie suddenly felt a stirring in his heart.

Alek mentioned a value in the text, 85.39 microamps.

The bioelectricity of each cell in the human body is 85 microamps.

Below 55 microamps, cells are in a dormant or necrotic state, not participating in daily body circulation; some are expelled with metabolism, some turn into tumors, cysts, or inflammations remaining in the body.

Alek pointed out in the text that when brain cells are stimulated with a current of 85.39 microamps, it can maximize the vitality of brain cells, promoting their growth and recovery.

After the epilepsy treatment device stops seizures, it releases 85.39 microamps of current to the surrounding diseased area through chip control, promoting the recovery of the affected brain cells.

After prolonged stimulation and recovery, it aims to completely cure epilepsy.

Seeing this, Lin Jie realized that perhaps the number 85.39 microamps was Alek's greatest discovery.

In fact, using bioelectric control to treat epilepsy is not a novel idea.

Alek's epilepsy treatment device, if it only prevents seizures, is similar to daily medication control, just another approach.

Even if seizures can be controlled, each pre-seizure episode will exacerbate brain cell damage.

This damage will worsen day by day, reaching a certain degree, until quantitative changes lead to qualitative transformation, causing the brain's epileptic area to suddenly worsen, resulting in irreversible function damage.

If 85.39 microamps of current stimulation can indeed enhance brain cell vitality and accelerate damage recovery, then epilepsy may truly be curable with Alek's invention of this treatment device.

At this time, Shen Lanruo's inquiry rang in his mind: "Ah Jie, can Alek's research achievement be realized?"

Lin Jie replied truthfully: "In my view, if the effect of 85.39 microamps current stimulation is truly as Alek says, the possibility of controlling, even curing epilepsy, is very high."

"However..."

Shen Lanruo asked eagerly: "However what?"

Lin Jie turned to the schematic of Alek's epilepsy treatment device. This instrument is quite exquisite, about the size of half a peanut, designed to be implantable inside the brain.

He pondered, saying: "I am not sure if current technology can achieve this. It's known that instruments capable of such fine current control are quite bulky."

"The performance control center of this instrument is the high-precision bioelectric sensitive chip."

"Whether current chip technology can produce such miniaturized sensitive chips..."

Lin Jie thought again, saying: "Perhaps, we can just implant probes in the epileptic focus area, while..."

"Place the core chip control unit outside the skull..."

He touched his head, smiling: "Just placing it on the head allows for easing the size, adaptability, and safety requirements for the control chip..."

With this thought, Lin Jie became increasingly convinced that modifying Alek's method had a high possibility of realization.

Alek's method is actually very simple; once the bioelectric current of the epileptic focus increases to a certain level, nearing the seizure-triggering threshold, the monitoring chip is activated to draw out and consume the excess bioelectric current.

Simultaneously, timed current release stimulates the recovery of damaged brain cells.

However, even if the effect of 85.39 microamp stimulation is verified, there are still four challenges to realizing this epilepsy treatment device.

The first challenge is identifying the epileptic focus.

The areas in the brain that trigger seizures vary for each individual, causing differences in seizure manifestations among people.

With current medical technologies, accurately locating the epileptic focus is still difficult, only allowing for the identification of a relatively general area.

Alek's solution is to cast a wide net.

His sophisticated instrument features dozens of probes to detect electrical anomalies in surrounding brain regions.

The second challenge is determining the bioelectric trigger threshold.

Due to individual differences, the bioelectric threshold for provoking seizures varies among people.

However, this can be ascertained through multiple seizure induction tests.

The third challenge is the bio or metallic material that can be implanted in the brain for many years without causing any abnormalities or adverse reactions, with exceptionally sensitive conductivity.

The fourth challenge is this high-precision bioelectric sensitive chip.

Lin Jie was also unsure whether current chip manufacturing capabilities could produce a control chip with this level of sensitivity and miniaturization.

After hearing Lin Jie's explanation, Shen Lanruo contemplated, saying: "Alek's research achievement has always remained unknown to the outside world; possibly because of this, he was sabotaged..."

"This means that the research outcome should be feasible and achievable."

Lin Jie nodded: "Lanruo, your conjecture is very reasonable. However, what intrigues me most is Alek's proposed number, 85.39 microamps."

He spoke excitedly: "If this value is truly proven effective, it should be the optimal comfort level for human brain cells, with significantly profound implications."

Saying this, Lin Jie picked up his phone and called Tian Xiangyu, "Tian Xiangyu, put aside your current work, and conduct an experiment for me overnight..."