LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 83 Academic Research Halo, Future Nobel Prize Cradle!
early June.
Taihu New Town.
Galaxy Medical Park.
Inside the State Key Laboratory of Neurobiology.
Researcher Yang Yan is testing a new device called "mind reading device".
The device is to implant some electrode arrays in the brain to obtain signals from the brain to control the movement of the lips, tongue, throat and jaw.
Then, through AI technology, the brain electrical activity signal captured by the electrode is converted into a synthetic voice from the "virtual vocal tract".
The original intention of the research and development of the mind reading device.
It is to help those patients who have lost their ability to speak due to stroke, laryngeal cancer, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other diseases to regain a new voice!
It sounds easy.
In fact, it is very troublesome.
When the paralyzed person tries to speak.
These muscles are still sending signals to the brain.
All kinds of brain signals require professional decoding.
It also needs to figure out which sounds the tiny pulses from the throat, lips, jaw, and tongue correspond to.
It is also very difficult to capture the signal and generate synthetic speech.
The beginning of the mind-reading device project.
Yang Yan's team plans to successfully overcome various difficulties within two years and develop a real mind-reading device.
However.....
No one expected it.
Just over a month.
The mind-reading device was successfully developed.
All kinds of difficulties encountered in research and development were easily overcome.
To this.
The research team all have a sense of "as if there is divine help".
as if any difficulty.
They can be conquered easily!
Inspirations that appear randomly during the scientific research process can be grasped by them and eventually overcome difficulties.
This is unimaginable in previous scientific research!
The older generation of researchers often warn them.
In science, there are no smooth roads.
Only those who are not afraid of hard work and climb along the steep mountain road can hope to reach the summit of success.
But in the State Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, everything went smoothly!
Yang Yan shook her head, throwing away the complicated thoughts in her mind.
She took a deep breath.
Officially test the mind reading device!
Volunteers were five volunteers who were about to undergo neurosurgery for epilepsy.
They have completely lost the ability to speak due to illness.
At this moment, their brains are already equipped with electrode arrays.
After some manipulations by the researchers, the electrodes were put in place.
Yang Yan took a text and asked the volunteers to recite it.
"I squeezed among the twittering crowd, and looked at the tiger in the cage for a long, long time through two iron fences..."
"Someone hit it with stones, some yelled at it, some tried to persuade it, but it ignored them all!"
"Oh, tiger, tiger in a cage, are you dreaming of a vast forest?"
The virtual vocal channels of five volunteers fluently and smoothly emit speech synthesis sounds.
Judging by the speed and clarity of speech.
They have reached the speaking level of ordinary people!
next.
The two sides began a formal dialogue.
The epileptics spoke their thoughts fluently and easily.
Although they are paralyzed.
But these paralyzed muscles still send signals to the brain.
After decoding.
What they wanted to say ended up being a speech synthesized sound!
See this scene.
Yang Yan and the others were extremely excited.
The mind-reading device was a success!
Hawking, a former physicist, did not come to Yinhe Hospital before.
A dedicated speech synthesizer is used.
That kind of speech synthesizer can only say this word for a minute.
The mind-reading device developed by the laboratory can reach the speech rate of normal people, that is, 100 to 150 words per minute.
After a detailed test.
Yang Yan asked: "What problems do you think the mind-reading device has?"
"I think we should continue to improve the vocal organ movement database and record more brain signals."
"I think the different languages, and the dialects of each city, should be updated."
"The sound conversion accuracy rate is only 98%, it must be improved to 100%!"
"Children with cerebral palsy who have never spoken before need to learn to speak. How should we solve this part?"
Hear the opinions of the people.
Yang Yan recorded these problems in the book and prepared to improve them.
A lot of scientific research.
From 10 to 100, it is not difficult.
The hardest part is going from 0 to 1!
Now, the team she brought has completed a breakthrough from 0 to 1.
Just continue to improve in the future.
A better mind-reading device must be developed!
As far as Yang Yan knows.
Yinhe Hospital has successfully completed several head transplants, bringing paralyzed patients back to life.
But head transplants are extremely expensive.
The operation cost of 80 million yuan is not affordable for ordinary people.
Therefore, the development of mind-reading devices is very meaningful!
the other side.
Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine and Digestion, Yinhe Hospital.
Researcher Yao Peng is testing a swallowable electronic capsule.
The new capsule contains gas sensors such as hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide sensors, a temperature sensor, a microcomputer controller, a radio frequency transmitter and batteries.
Its size, only 2.5 cm, is similar to ordinary drug capsules.
When the swallowed capsule enters the body through the digestive tract, it can monitor human health internally.
Basic characteristics such as body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, intestinal gas, intestinal gas concentration, and oxygen content can all be monitored.
In this small-scale human guide experiment, six healthy volunteers participated.
At this moment, they have taken the electronic capsule.
The electronic sensing capsule was successfully placed in the body of the volunteer, and basic data such as oxygen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide were detected.
And transmit all kinds of data to a tiny receiver carried by the volunteers.
The sensor capsule transmits a signal to the tiny receiver every five minutes.
After a series of tests.
Yao Peng and other researchers were very excited.
The results showed that.
The electronic sensor capsule can move like the microorganisms in the intestines and decompose the ingredients of food.
At the same time, the data provided by the capsule can help understand the impact of diet and medical supplements, and create a customized diet plan for the individual!
Yao Peng smiled all over his face.
This electronic sensing capsule seems useless.
It actually means a lot!
How food and microorganisms affect the chemical composition of human internal organs can all be monitored with electronic sensor capsules.
Not only that!
Electron-sensing capsule that can use the stomach to run as a battery.
It can help doctors diagnose stomach bleeding, and digestive tract diseases.
Identify the intestinal microbial flora and immune response, and even predict cell cancer in advance.
Suddenly, Yao Peng scratched his head, very tangled.
The experiment of the electronic sensor capsule is so smooth, is it too easy?
previous research experiments.
Which time is not as difficult as climbing the sky?
Will electronic sensing capsules be a useless research?
Not at all!
At present, there is no research on this swallowable electronic sensor capsule in the world.
When the paper is published.
Sure to make a splash in the medical world!
So, where is the problem?
Could it be that his scientific research threshold has increased?
the other side.
Galaxy Pharmaceutical National Engineering Technology Research Center.
Researcher Liao Yunshi is testing her latest painless and needle-free portable injector.
This injector is capable of injecting drugs (Mod) and vaccines using a high-pressure device.
Among them, the liquid medicine is as thin as a hair, and can leave the device at an extremely fast speed and enter the skin quickly.
When injecting, there is almost no pain and no side effects.
After testing.
Liao Yunshi was a little excited.
She is also a medical worker.
She still remembers the vows made by the medical students who enrolled that year.
"I am determined to do my best to eradicate human suffering, to promote the perfection of health, and to maintain the sanctity and honor of medical skills.
Although a painless, needle-free portable injector might not sound like much.
But even if it only makes the patient feel less pain.
All very meaningful things!
...volt...
at the same time.
The 600 scientific research institutions in the Yinhe Medical Park have all made new scientific research achievements.
After Lu Chen learned about it, he smiled knowingly.
Galaxy Hospital is blessed with academic and scientific research aura.
Every scientific research worker can double his level in the academic research field that he is good at.
over time.
Numerous heavy scientific research achievements and technological inventions will be born in the Yinhe Medical Park.
In the future, the Yinhe Medical Park will even give birth to the Nobel Prize in Medicine and become the real cradle of the Nobel Prize!