When ＂Drug God＂ meets ＂Drug God Dad＂, the cross-border talk show ＂Common Talk＂ takes you to explore the meaning of life.

Greater Bay Area, a large-scale cross-border talk show, continued to broadcast on Tencent Video. Tian Pujun, the chief producer and host of the third program, invited Dr. Lantian, the chief scientist of Yunzhou Biotechnology, and Wei Xu, the "drug god father" who kept running to save his son suffering from a rare disease "Menkes syndrome" after 1990, to discuss the significance of gene decoding and life together.

"Medicine God Dad": Stubbornness is only to save my son.

Wei Xu’s son was diagnosed with a rare disease "Menkes syndrome", a very fatal disease with a very low prevalence rate. When I first learned, Wei Xu translated the paper materials paragraph by paragraph, and looked up word by word. In his words, he described "I know how to pronounce words, but I don’t know what they mean together". This was the most struggling moment, and his wife and family didn’t support it, but he still tried to find some "hope for life" for his son with his stubbornness.

When asked by Tian Pujun if he ever thought about giving up, Wei Xu replied "No" without thinking.

He can’t accept that children are just beginning to know the world and will face death. This is an innate belief of parents, and he doesn’t believe that there is anything that can’t be done for children. The "medicine" developed by Xu Wei has alleviated his son’s illness to some extent, but it can’t "cure the disease". By chance, Wei Xu communicated with Dr. Lantian, the chief scientist from Yunzhou Biotechnology, and the expectation of saving his son has further developed.

Lantian: There is still a long way to go to decode genes.

Moved by "stubbornness", this is what Dr. Lantian said when talking about Wei Xu. With curiosity and the idea of understanding the symptoms of Xiao Yang, Lantian contacted Wei Xu, hoping to help the father even if he did some consultation.

In the program, Lantian showed Tian Pujun a medicine for Xiaoyaoyang, which went through a series of quality inspection for half a year before use. Conventional drug research and development usually takes more than 10 years, and this time, due to Xiao Xiaoyang’s illness, it only took half a year, from 10 years to half a year, and the cost spent can be calculated by tens of millions. However, what is gratifying is that Xiao Haoyang has the strength to turn his head and push his feet very high after taking the medicine. Wei Xu said that this is the first time he has seen progress in two years. This effect is far beyond the expectation of Lantian and the team. It is unprecedented in the history of medicine, from living less than 3 years old to extending life and improving through gene therapy.

At present, we have been able to "decode" genes, but the decoded genes still need human beings to understand like "gobbledygook", and we know too few chapters, even the parts we know are superficial.

When Wei Xu was asked by Tian Pujun whether it was acceptable to exhaust everything and the final result was not as expected, Wei Xu replied frankly, "If I, as his father, finally exhausted everything and failed to save him, at least I should make his life meaningful and not let him come to this world just to wait for death." He can accept failure in the struggle, because at least he has worked hard. In the program, Wei Xu mentioned many times that his son loves to laugh, and thinks that his son is also a warrior. "This is the strength he gave me. He can laugh with you after surgery. Why don’t you insist?".

Dialogue: making life meaningful

Wei Xu, who experienced this change, told his feelings in the program: "There is an old saying in China that a gentleman is useless. People have infinite possibilities and should not be defined. Life is not always smooth sailing. Instead of avoiding things that you can’t avoid at all, learn to turn bad things into real value. No matter how many setbacks there are in the future, you will have a voice jump out and tell yourself that it is going to test me again and what it is going to teach me. "

Wei Xu thinks that it is worthwhile for his son to come into this world. It is because of the help of Dr. Lantian and so many good people that it becomes meaningful to save him. There are few such people, but it exists. It is worth our nostalgia, and the world is worth making it better.