Biomedical research works like this, requiring constant experimentations. Even with a correct research approach, it takes a long time to produce results.
To produce results in a matter of months is a considerable and exceptionally fast achievement in the realm of research.
Some biologists may spend years, decades, or even their entire lifetime focusing on the same research. There are many such examples.
Researching requires constant observation, constant thinking, the need to revise experimental content, as well as ample patience.
Zhao Yi isn't lacking patience since the frustrating design and observation processes were often completed by others.
During the process of waiting for results, he had numerous other things to do. His long-term physical project, the 'Multidimensional Space Boundary' theoretical physics research project, which he collaborated with Edward has still no concrete progression.