Chapter 857 - Conquering a Medical Challenge (2/2)

Jiang Chen smiled and extended his hand.

“It’s a privilege that we share the same opinion.”

“…I’m sorry, I can’t shake your hand now.”

It was mid-October. Inside Coro Hospital, a subsidiary of Future Biology, and accompanied by his three children from Britain, Hawking entered the operating room and was placed in a medical cabin with the help of a team of medical staff.

Considering that all his body muscles have shrunk to a very serious degree, the repair time may be extensive. The news of Future Biology conquering the challenging ALS received wide attention from the international community.

Any incurable disease that could be cured was incalculable progress in the medical research field.

Even if the occurrence of ALS was not high, international medical organizations still displayed strong interests.

However, similar to previous occasions, Future Biology did not disclose how to treat this terminal illness, but generalized the treatment process to the two steps of “muscle tissue repair and neuron repair”. The international medical community had no solution to Future Biology’s “stinginess.” After all, Future Group was a company rather than a scholar inst.i.tution. Even if it discovered something, it wouldn’t publish a journal on the SCI.

In fact, this time it wasn’t Jiang Chen’s ignorance, but he really could not explain it clearly.

The nutrient fluid used in the smart medical chamber could accelerate the repair of necrotic cells under special electromagnetic effect. If the medical experts in the apocalypse explained it, they could potentially offer a good explanation. However, for Jiang Chen, a clear outsider of the field; he could only use this general explanation.

Anyway, the treatment process was foolproof. Two nurses put the patient inside and then remember to change the nutrient fluid regularly. The process was almost like a was.h.i.+ng machine.

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Shortly after the news of Hawking’s new nationality proliferated, countries also made subtle adjustments in their policies regarding the Moon.

The first was the UA. As the first and only country to send humans to the Moon, Celestial Trade was ahead of them in establis.h.i.+ng a colony which clearly triggered the nation.

After many rounds of discussions, NASA finally persuaded Congress to give them a ten billion dollar budget. The Capital announced the restart of the Apollo Program, and the NASA would work with s.p.a.ceX to re-explore the moon. Many tech companies, including Google, would also partic.i.p.ate in the project and share the 10 billion USD national budget.

The European s.p.a.ce Agency did not lag behind and announced that it would hold a meeting in Darmstadt, Germany to discuss the establishment of a moon landing plan as soon as possible. However, no agreement was reached among countries on who should pay. Although ESA and the European were not linked, the UK after Brexit showed little interest in the initiative. After wealthy Britain left, relying solely on the finances of France and Germany was difficult to squeeze ten billion Euros into the aeros.p.a.ce project.

The Director of ESA called for private companies to invest in the project. However, given the uncertain commercial outlook, the investors’ interest was still unclear.

Then followed by Hua, the success of the ChangE Series rockets also gave confidence in moon landings. Shortly after ESA convened a meeting, the mysterious authorities (1) announced a new aeros.p.a.ce white paper and incorporated the manned Moon landing plan into the national s.p.a.ce strategy. It was expected that the first manned Moon landing craft would be launched in 2030.

On the Russian side, due to the lack of funding, they didn’t make any changes to their program. However, Kremlin said that if conditions permit, it would change the existing s.p.a.ce program and incorporate moon landing into the Russian s.p.a.ce activities.

Jiang Chen did not feel threatened by the aggregated countries.

Even with the technology of Celestial Trade, he also spent a lot of money in s.p.a.ce before he arrived at this stage. Perhaps the UA was the most hopeful second country to achieve moon colonization. But by that day, colonies and mines of Celestial Trade would already be all over the moon.

Even if they wanted to colonize, would they still have a place to settle?

(1) Mysterious Authorities – A satirical noun. There are many authorities that have jurisdictions over unexpected areas. It is almost impossible to see a clear governance structure in China.