"How is it, how does it feel?"
After visiting Preston's office building, the chairman said proudly, "Although our company is far inferior to global powerhouses such as Novartis and Roche, it is also one of the top 100 companies in Zurich."
"good."
Chen Chen nodded with a half-smile.
Most Swiss people may think that Chen Chen thinks it is really good, but only Qian Wenhuan can understand Chen Chen's feelings.
The so-called Preston Office Building is actually a five-story building made almost entirely of glass. It is a standard building in a fifth-tier city in Zhongzhou District.
Being used to seeing clusters of 5A Grade A office buildings with hundreds of floors in commercial cities, Chen Chen was very proud of them without even saying, "This earth-finished building is quite exquisite."
In addition to the good air and the exotic atmosphere throughout the city, Zurich is indeed the size of a fifth-tier city.
However, the reason why Chen Chen chose to open a branch in Switzerland was not because of the prosperity here, but because of the environment and system in the life science field here.
You know, Switzerland has always been the country with the highest cancer survival rate in the world.
The reason is that Switzerland has a world-famous biology institute, many pharmaceutical companies that focus on scientific research, and a large number of highly qualified life science researchers.
Compared with other life science bases in the world, Switzerland is more cutting-edge in the field of life sciences.
Here are the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the world, Roche and Novartis, as well as a large number of world-class pharmaceutical companies.
In fact, these companies eventually formed four "biovalleys" in Switzerland, just like Silicon Valley in the United States.
The location of Preston Company is located in BioValleyZurich.
Finally, the directors of Preston Company took Chen Chen to an area similar to an industrial park in the suburbs outside the city.
It is similar to an industrial park, except that the buildings here are not factories that are constantly emitting thick smoke, but biological research centers.
"This is the Zurich Biovalley."
In the northern suburbs of Zurich, several cars were parked at the intersection, and a group of people surrounded a young man who got out of the car.
Under the blue sky, Mr. Winn pointed to the scattered buildings in the distance and said loudly, "Although it is not as huge as the Basel Biovalley dozens of kilometers away, the technology of our Biovalley is also Not to be underestimated.”
“The perfect integration of technology and nature, beautiful scenery.”
Chen Chen nodded, "That's why I'm here."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
When Mr. Winn heard this, his heart finally dropped into his stomach, "In that case, I, the old man, won't talk nonsense anymore, let's go directly to the research institute!"
With that said, several people got in the car again and went straight to Preston Company's Life Sciences Research Institute.
The Preston Research Institute is a small building with only three floors. The whole building is dusty. If you just look at it from the outside, you can't tell that this building has anything to do with life sciences.
However, this is also in line with Switzerland’s rigorous and rigid style.
You know, on the Internet, the Swiss are known as "Mom Swiss".
For example: "I parked my car, and the parking space was slightly crooked, and my stupid Swiss neighbor actually called the police. Damn it!"
“Before I went to the toilet, I found that I ran out of toilet paper. I wanted to go to the supermarket to buy a roll quickly, but I didn’t realize until I went downstairs that no supermarkets were open in Switzerland on Sundays. In the end, I had to drive ten kilometers to the train station to buy it. Mom forced Switzerland !”
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Finally, the car parked perfectly in the special parking space, and several people got out of the car one after another, but at this time Winn couldn't laugh anymore.
In front of the research institute, except for a few scattered company personnel, no one else came out to greet him.
"Where's Sam Evan? Call him."
Wen En reminded Qian Wenhuan next to him in a low voice, and then smiled apologetically at Chen Chen, "I'm sorry, I think it's because our great scientists forgot to eat and sleep because of research."
"It doesn't matter, Mr. Winn."
Chen Chen said he didn't care and walked directly into the research institute.
A group of people quickly followed.
It wasn't until he entered the research institute that Chen Chen saw that in the hall of the research institute, several people in white coats were sitting in front of the bar, chatting and laughing.
The faces of several directors became even more ugly.
"Where is Sam Evan?" Winn, as the general manager, had no choice but to stand up and ask, "Didn't he receive a notice from the company?"
"I'm here, Mr. Winn."
Before Winn could finish speaking, a stern-looking blond man walked out of the room next to him.
Win En suppressed his anger and said dryly to Chen Chen, "This is Samuel, the head of the institute. He has five genetically modified patents and three stem cell patents."
"Mr. Samuel." Chen Chen nodded in greeting.
"Hello, Mr. Chen." Samuel forced a smile on his stiff face, but no matter how you looked at it, it looked a bit arrogant and perfunctory.
Chen Chen shook hands with the other party. He understood that such researchers were treated politely wherever they went. Some small companies were even supported by a few top scientific researchers. Once these people left, the company would collapse.
Chen Chen had already received the news that Samuel contributed a lot to why Preston Company is as big as it is today.
But it seems that the person in charge has become a bit domineering because of his superior achievements.
After the introductions were completed, accompanied by a group of people, Chen Chen began to visit the institute again.
"Our company's main business is the two tissue engineering technologies of 'cell anti-aging' and 'stem cell anti-aging', so the laboratories within the institute are mainly cell and stem cell laboratories."
At this time, the commentator was replaced by an employee of the institute from Winn, "The laboratories of the institute are all accredited by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Organization ILAC, and their professionalism is the first level in the world..."
Having said this, the employee said confidently, "Do you want to visit on a sample basis or by project?"
"I won't go in, just visit through the window."
Chen Chen waved his hand.
Many people always think that face projects are a national condition in China, but it would be naive to think that face projects do not exist in foreign countries.
At this time, I came here with great fanfare. Even if there were hidden dangers in the laboratory, they had long been hidden. No matter how carefully I checked, what could I see
Therefore, Chen Chen had no intention of visiting at all, and instead said, "Tell me what research results the laboratory has now."
The employee was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Samuel.
Samuel nodded slightly.
"Okay, but our vocabulary may be a bit professional. If you have any questions that you can't understand, just ask."
The researcher thought for a while and said carefully, "In terms of cellular anti-aging, we have achieved the perfect commercialization of fibroblasts for scar removal and wrinkle removal. Oh, by the way, do you know 'fibroblasts'? This is a type of cell that exists in' It evolved from 'fibroblast precursor cells' in loose connective tissue, and its main function is to fill the wound tissue defect and heal the wound."
"However, someone has studied a long time ago that collagenase secreted by fibroblast precursor cells has the ability to reconstruct tissue, so we only need to extract a 9 cubic millimeter piece of skin tissue from the human body, isolate the fibroblast precursor cells from it, and Purify, then add a specific culture medium to differentiate into fibroblasts and proliferate in large quantities, then add a certain amount of trypsin solution and centrifuge multiple times to make a fibroblast suspension."
The researcher looked at Chen Chen with a slightly proud look, "The advantage of this is that it can ensure that the prepared cells are not passaged more than 5 times and are all in the active functional stage. It has certain effects on the human body in terms of scar removal and wrinkle elimination." Efficacy."
Chen Chen frowned, "The purification you mentioned in the first step is to use differential speed to escape the wall."
"Uh, yes indeed..." The researcher nodded subconsciously.
"What are the ingredients of the specific culture solution?" Chen Chen asked again.
"Yes..." The researcher was stunned. How could he remember this
"It is adding 15% fetal bovine serum to the MEM cell culture medium that cannot be autoclaved."
Samuel on the side suddenly spoke calmly.
"This is a good plan."
Chen Chen nodded, "But I think the fetal bovine serum can be increased to 30%. In addition, 3.5gL glucose and 50mgL human insulin can be added."