Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Jing Yulan brought the news that the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and Waseda University were involved in the research of G protein-coupled receptors, but Yang Rui did not look surprised.

This made Jing Yulan anxious, and said: "These three schools are all very powerful schools. Their funds and talents are stronger than Peking University, but not weaker. You have to be more careful when the three schools are together."

What she said was euphemistic. At the level of 1986, Dongda University is a world-class school. Peking University has no ranking at all, and it is not as good as Cairo University in Egypt or Corvinus University in Hungary.

However, this kind of external cognition problem has never been considered by Yang Rui.

He smiled slightly, put his arms around Jing Yulan and said, "I know, I'm not going to compete with Dongda and them either."

"They want to steal your honor and achievements." Jing Yulan warned Yang Rui as tactfully as possible. She works in the school and knows a lot about scientific research. It is also a field. If the achievements in this field will win important awards, then the person who wins the award must be the person who has contributed the most?

Of course it's impossible.

Even with the public's "public" thinking, the person who gets the most honor may be the one who made the final result, which is exactly what the so-called result is.

But shouldn't the credit of the person who provided the seed, planted the tree, cuttings, and maintained it be more important than the person who picked the fruit?

However, this kind of thing, even in the scientific research community, is still unclear, and if various interest factors and political entanglements are added, it will be even more difficult to explain.

There are three places for a Nobel Prize. If the profit is shared by the three who provide the seeds, those who plant and maintain the trees, and those who pick the fruits, that is the most perfect situation. However, in the history of the Nobel Prize, the probability of such a perfect occurrence is very high. It is small, and the most common situation is that the person who picks the fruit last gets two places, and those who provide seeds, plant trees, and maintain them will choose one and award them.

Taking the field of g protein-coupled receptors as an example, making a conformation is equivalent to providing a seed, and is already eligible for the Nobel Prize, but if Yang Rui has no achievements in the next two stages of crystal structure and three-dimensional structure, He is likely to lose the chance to win the award.

Yang Rui was not worried about this, and said: "When Matsushima Heng came, I knew his plan. Don't worry, no matter how powerful Dongda University is, it is still a step behind us. They want to make a crystal structure. , I’m not bragging, they’re delusional.”

Jing Yulan laughed at being told, and said coquettishly, "It's not just bragging in the end."

With the soft words in his ears, Yang Rui felt his heart soften, and said with ease in the way of later generations: "Give me a little confidence."

Jing Yulan pouted, and said, "The Dongda University is too famous... By the way, doesn't your school have a professor who graduated from Dongda? Can you ask him about the situation?"

"What's the use of asking about the situation?" Yang Rui said, and immediately came to his senses, and said kindly: "That's right, I'll go ask and see."

Now he wants to appease Jing Yulan. After all, he can't say that I am not afraid of Dongda. Given the current situation in the country, no one will believe such an argument.

"You have to be careful, the three universities are backed by consortiums, they are more fierce than the subordinate universities of our school." Jing Yulan reminded Yang Rui as much as possible.

Yang Rui just kept agreeing. In fact, he was facing more than three Japanese universities. There are so many universities in the world interested in participating in the field of g protein-coupled receptors, especially universities in some third world countries. Encouragement, I can't help but make some jokes.

And those who are more famous than the University of Tokyo, such as the famous four brothers of Harvard, Oxford, Yale and Cambridge, inevitably have someone doing scientific research in this field, it is nothing more than their own strength.

This is because Yang Rui's strength is not enough, so that everyone thinks it is profitable. If it is so much ahead of the top laboratory, most of the medium and large laboratories will have to withdraw. It's like running a 100-meter race, Bolt started running 10 meters away, and then spending a lot of money to participate in the race is not so meaningful.

But if Jin Sipang is on the runway, even if he leads by 20 meters, some people will still feel that he can take advantage of it.

Back in the laboratory, Yang Rui briefly reported the possible participation of three Japanese universities, and the researchers showed no surprise.

Xu Zhengping also said calmly: "The Japanese are like this. When they can talk to you, they are very polite. When they turn around and can't follow his request, they hand out the knife without saying a word."

"There is no guarantee that they won't hand over the knife if the negotiation is settled." Yang Rui said: "The Mitsui consortium is behind Dongda University. According to what Matsushima Heng said, he has at least 20 million US dollars in funding. If it is more, it is possible to increase it to 30 million. The situation of Kyoto University and Waseda University is not clear, but they also have the support of consortiums behind them. I estimate that the start-up funds of the two must exceed 10 million US dollars. If not, it is impossible for them to join in.”

Even Yang Rui’s ion channel laboratory used a start-up fund of 6 million US dollars. If a Japanese laboratory wants to carry out research of this scale, if it does not spend 10 million US dollars, there is no point in participating.

"One has 20 million, 30 million, and the others don't care about 10 million." Fan Zhenlong let out a hearty laugh, which drew echoes from the lab.

Several researchers chatted more easily.

Yang Rui frowned slightly.

As far as the current ion channel laboratory is concerned, the morale is commendable, but the relaxed spirit that Fan Zhenlong's words aroused was a bit too contagious. It's like a person with low self-esteem who suddenly gets unexpected success and becomes too proud.

Yang Rui thought for a while, then looked at the table, and said, "Everyone, I have a few words to say."

There was an instant silence in the laboratory.

"As Fan Zhenlong said just now, there is a laboratory with 20 million to 30 million dollars participating in the competition. It seems that we don't care about the laboratory with a funding of 10 million US dollars, as if our opponent only has one laboratory. "Yang Rui looked around, pointed to his brain, and said, "What do you think the laboratory with a budget of 10 million US dollars is for participating in the competition? Is it for losing?"

Everyone's smiles gradually faded.

Yang Rui said: "Under what circumstances did we participate in this competition? Other laboratories will also have similar judgment criteria. To make it clearer, there is no three-two-three, dare not go to Liangshan, and now , those who dare to join this scientific research competition, either have a lot of funds, or have a lot of talents, or have accumulation, or have unique skills. No one is stupid, and no one dares to treat tens of millions of dollars as a joke, throw away Go into the water and listen to it."

"Director Yang is right, everyone should not underestimate the enemy." Xu Zhengping knew what Yang Rui wanted to express.

"But, it's all like this, what else do they have?" A young scientific research dog shouted on the spot.

"There are many methods." Yang Rui said: "Let me give you a simple example. Suppose I am the head of the laboratory at Kyoto University. I now know that the research and development progress of the ion channel laboratory at Peking University is the fastest. The reserve is the strongest, and I, Kyoto University, have not accumulated enough technology, so what should I do? I am pre-researching the next stage of the project.”

There was a "boom" in the laboratory, and everyone seemed to have something to say.

"It's too dangerous to do so, they may not dare to do it."

"Who knows when the second stage will be completed, their pre-research will be controlled by others."

"This is a gamble of 10 million US dollars. If you find that the front is a dead end, isn't the subsequent research meaningless?"

Among the various questions, Yang Rui stood still. After a while, when everyone became quieter, he said, "How long do you think we can complete the second phase of research?"

No one spoke because no one could make a solid judgment.

Yang Rui actually didn't know, he just shrugged and said: "We at least believe that we can complete the second phase of research in a short period of time, so we are so devoted, right? Is it difficult for the other party to make this judgment? ?”

Looking at the people below, Yang Rui said again: "We are now working hard on the crystal structure of g-protein coupled receptors. Our enemy may be Matsushima Heng's laboratory, or the laboratory of the University of California. Our current advantage , has a first-mover advantage, and the enemy has more abundant resources and manpower advantages. However, in terms of resources and manpower, laboratories that are not superior to ours may skip the study of crystal structures and go straight to high-resolution If we go away from the ultimate goal of the three-dimensional structure of high efficiency, then, assuming we can win in the second stage, we may face other laboratories with first-mover advantages. Therefore, for all laboratories participating in the competition, we None should be taken lightly.”

The laboratory became silent.

Yang Rui actually proposed a possibility. It is not an easy task to skip the second stage and go directly to the third stage of research and development. Otherwise, some laboratories have already done this.

However, this is indeed a feasible way of thinking, and in the world of scientific research, the most important thing that cannot be underestimated is the brains of researchers.

If there is no way to go, find a new way. Foreigners have no idioms, but they also have IQs, especially after Yang Rui completed the conformation of g-protein coupled receptors at an extremely fast speed, there may be more people doing this.

Whether it is the "one-pot stirring" pretreatment method or the academic assistance brought by the clear conformation itself, it means that the research on G protein-coupled receptors has been accelerated.

The air filled with relaxed feelings that had been accumulated in the laboratory for many days was swept away by Yang Rui in a few minutes.

"Director Xu, ask someone to make a form in the laboratory." Yang Rui pointed to the white wall behind him, and said, "Now we need to arrange special personnel to track the movements of foreign laboratories at any time, and to report the progress of other laboratories Calculate it, um...Wu Qi, you do this."

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