Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Gu Qiang did three sets of verification experiments, not only to ensure the credibility of the results, but also to accumulate some data for future comparisons.

Ouyang Shi took over Yang Rui's work, grabbed seven prepared mice, and started sexing the embryos.

The difficulty in sex identification lies in the design of primers, and at the same time, it is also one of the important thresholds for embryo transfer.

Yang Rui designed the primer, and even crossed the most difficult threshold.

He might as well hand over the rest of the work to Ouyang Shi, and give him a second author by the way.

For Yang Rui, whether a paper leads alone is not so important.

Even if it is a paper that can win a Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize Committee will not actually decide the award because of the signature of the paper. Moreover, the Nobel Prize is usually awarded to people, not to the article or research itself.

This is especially evident in Einstein. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the photoelectric effect. Of course the photoelectric effect is very important and deserves a Nobel Prize, but this is Einstein!

Anyone who thinks of Einstein's academic research should first think of the theory of relativity, and the Nobel Prize Committee is no exception.

However, the theory of relativity at that time was unproven. Although everyone felt that the theory of relativity was a fortress, it would be too risky to set the reason for the Nobel Prize as the unproven theory of relativity—just before Einstein , the ether theory is still popular, and who was sure that the theory of relativity was not another hypothesis that could not be falsified temporarily.

However, Einstein is too awesome, and if he is not given the Nobel Prize, it is really impossible to delay.

Therefore, the reason why Einstein finally won the award became the photoelectric effect-worthy of the award, but it is by no means the reason for Einstein to win the award.

In fact, modern science has become more and more difficult to be completed by one person alone. The PCR completed by Yang Rui before, even if it is not the last Nobel Prize-winning technology completed by one person, is not far away. This is what he deliberately did.

Naturally, the small project of gender identification is not worthy of Yang Rui's independent work.

In fact, if Yang Rui was more ruthless, he would just find two experimental dogs to cooperate with him, or even ask the whole lab to help, and if he didn't give his signature, probably no one would dare to jump up.

In the eyes of outsiders, the authority of the head of the laboratory may be insignificant.

Or it may be vague, but inside the laboratory, it is still unusually heavy, especially for a well-known scholar like Yang Rui.

However, power does not belong to Yang Rui's choice, and he himself does not like such pure exploitation. Yang Rui would rather take out one or more second authors, and Yang Rui doesn't mind giving up one or more first authors if the collaborators pay accordingly.

Even if his goal is "nature".

Yes, Yang Rui plans to publish the sex identification paper in the famous "Nature", he doesn't care (Journal of Nutrition), or (British Journal of Nutrition).

These two journals are indeed the top journals in the industry, but the industry they are in is a small animal husbandry, not a huge biology, and it is not the legendary natural science.

The reputation, social influence, and status of a journal, roughly speaking, are closely related to the breadth of its coverage. The earliest and most famous "Nature" and "Science" undoubtedly occupy the commanding heights of journal status, which has a lot to do with their widest coverage.

Among the biological journals, "Cell", which covers the whole range of biology, bears the brunt, but even if its impact factor is often higher than that of "Nature" and "Science", in terms of the influence and status of the whole society, it is still not as good as the latter two. of those.

In the same way, the "Lancet" is a journal that only covers medicine. Even though its professionalism is praised, its impact factor is often exaggerated, but its influence in biology is not as good as that of "Cell". It can only be infighting with journals like the New England Journal of Medicine in the medical field.

Further, "cancercell" (cancer cells) is more specialized, so although it is a typical journal that is not good enough to eat a paper for a lifetime, its social influence outside the industry is naturally narrower.

For today's Yang Rui, what can a cow article in an animal husbandry journal do?

The researchers in the genetic engineering laboratory probably need journals like "Acta Nutrients" very much. To be precise, they are so eager that they dare not imagine journals like "Acta Nutrients".

But for Yang Rui, what does he want a journal with an impact factor of 3.0? Is it just to prove to others that he has studied animal husbandry?

No matter how strong the industry's top journals are, it is impossible to be more valuable than CNS.

I don't know how many times more "nature" is a matter of cattle.

Of course, publishing an article in "nature" is also a matter of many times more difficult. In fact, if Ouyang Shi or Gu Qiang wrote an article on "Sex Identification and Sex Control of Early Embryos Using PCR Technology", 10% of them would not be published.

Because they have yet to prove themselves in the international academia.

Therefore, papers like this kind of papers that are not qualified just by looking at the name cannot be used as a stepping stone for them.

If Yang Rui, who has only published one cell, submits a manuscript, 99% of it will not be published, also because the stepping stone is not strong enough.

However, for Yang Rui, who has already been in contact with CNS, he still has a 30% chance of publishing this paper-he is a world-class well-known scholar who has already knocked on the door, and he wants to publish a new paper, whether it is cell or " Science", will be given attention.

If Yang Rui's identity as the pioneer of pcr technology is included, the 30% chance will rise to 60% to 70%. In the face of CNS-level journals, 60 to 70% is a very reliable success rate, and it is completely worth a try.

In other words, if the same paper is signed by Yang Rui, there is a 60-70% chance of being published, but if it is signed by Sun Zhengchu, it will never be published.

The world is so unfair!

Of course, as far as the reality is concerned, it is enough that Sun Zhengchu is too exhausted to write such an article, and there is no way to talk about the discrimination of top journals like CNS.

However, Yang Rui is not going to talk about topics like "Nature" before the paper is published.

This kind of thing can be done, and there is no need to talk about it.

While Ouyang Shi was busy doing "prenatal education" for the mice, Yang Rui spread out his posture and began to write, while teaching Gu Qiang, Sun Zhengchu and others how to write in English.

Don’t look at the postgraduate students who can write English papers without passing CET-6. That is also the accumulation of years of experience. In the environment of the 1980s, when it was difficult to buy English learning materials, Yang Rui’s experience is definitely golden. Brick grade.

As a result, the researchers who had just rested for a few days entered the overtime state again without complaint or regret.

Yang Rui was a little more relaxed. While waiting for Ouyang Shi to complete the experiment, he casually entertained visiting scholars and officials, and occasionally conducted some performing experiments.

Everything is as calm as a pond in a valley.

Even after Ouyang Shi completed the last step, he didn't realize that Yang Rui had sent the paper immediately.

Instead, in the cafeteria of the laboratory, a group of irrelevant researchers were excitedly discussing who was stronger and who was weaker between the "Journal of Nutrition" and the "British Journal of Nutrition".