In the laboratory, Inomata Naoki stretched, moving his arms and neck, stiff from maintaining the same posture for too long. He tidied up the scattered items on the desk and then finally stood up from his seat.
Scientific research had always been an exceedingly dull and tedious endeavor, especially in the field of biomedicine. Many times, it involved conducting an enormous number of repetitive experiments, continuously accumulating experimental data and samples, comparing different results, and extracting the desired findings from the process.
Such a process was often extremely lengthy. It might take tens of thousands of identical experiments to produce just a dozen or even one or two valuable experimental results. Sometimes, tens of thousands of experiments might not even yield the desired results.
Doing research often felt like buying lottery tickets—persistently hoping that one day, a big prize would come your way.
