Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

In an age when it is harder to get research funding than to do research, every scholar knows the importance of telling a good story.

Of course, most scholars do not have the opportunity to tell stories. The public is only interested in the stories of the top scientific research achievements. If they cannot be the top scholars in the industry, no matter how good the storytelling ability is, it will be in vain.

To be the top in the industry, but also to be able to tell stories, the requirements are relatively high.

As far as the biosphere is concerned, the so-called world-class scholars may be hundreds or even thousands of people, and the so-called world-class scholars who can make world-class contributions are probably only a few dozen people. Scholars who have made contributions and are now gradually moving away from the front line of scientific research.

With such a small number, scholars who can do scientific research may not necessarily be able to tell stories, and scholars who can tell stories may not be able to do scientific research.

The former author of PCR, Murris, is a scholar who is good at storytelling. He is a typical anti-traditional elite. During his college years, he made his own psychotropic anesthetics and even developed new types of drugs for himself. Department, after completing the PCR, surfing all day long, waiting for various awards to fall on his head.

Murris has an innate talent for storytelling. His first published paper in "Nature" was on cosmology. According to him, it was pure fantasy and nonsense, and he cheated his first doctoral degree.

Whether it is fantasies and nonsense, it is difficult for future generations to comment, but in the eyes of ordinary people, such scholars are too down-to-earth.

After that, Murris packaged his inspiration about PCR with his girlfriend, express train and winding mountain road.

In the 1980s, when Sister was promoting PCR everywhere, Murris would say these things in every speech.

The public loves this kind of story.

Because of this, Murris has lived a very good life, achieving success and fame in the eyes of ordinary people. When he wants money, he will go to some organizations to give speeches. Whether it is schools, colleges or Wall Street, there is always a demand for Nobel Prize winners. There is an endless stream. Some wealthy private middle schools occasionally hope to invite Nobel Prize winners, not to mention various organizations outside the United States. The price of a lecture by Moores was as high as 100,000 US dollars at one time. Fang is responsible for high-level travel and accommodation.

But in the biological circle, the best storyteller is Murris.

In contrast, the two who made the DNA double helix structure, if not because the word double helix still has some meaning, it would be impossible to remember.

As for protein and cells, there is no concern.

Instead, the story of cowpox and the milkman spread widely around the world.

Yang Rui consciously learned the methods of successful people, including the method of getting inspiration from PCR, and he also took most of it—the mysterious Yun@南, the Chinese highway with 18 bends in the mountain road, and PCR, all of which were packaged by Yang Rui for himself.

Now it seems that this method of packaging and storytelling is also extremely successful.

Of course, Murris is also unknown because of this, although he is good at telling stories, although he is still a bohemian libertine, although he is still doing psychotropic drugs for himself, although he is still completely different from the surf boy of the scientific research ape, But without producing world-class results, no one cared about his story.

In the days to come, Murris will still be able to surf, be a bohemian slut, and still be a psychotropic agent. However, his life will no longer be so chic, and it is estimated that he will have to work in the private sector for a longer period of time. Do longer research work to meet your own material and spiritual consumption. Unless one day, he can make world-class results and tell a beautiful story.

In the eyes of Tobias, Yang Rui is a rare genius who is good at both storytelling and scientific research.

On the phone, Tobias described in detail what he saw and thought, and made a strong recommendation, which finally made the vacillating Dalbecco make a decision.

But his decision was completely beyond Tobias' expectations.

"I will come to China as soon as possible." Dalbeco said: "Talk to Yang Rui face to face."

Tobias was stunned for a long time, and asked: "Are you going to China? What about lobbying in Congress? And the National Institutes of Health..."

"The intervention of the National Institutes of Health is inevitable, so that's good, they have abundant reserves and resources." Dalbeco paused, and said: "I want to see if Yang Rui and his laboratory are considered to be rich. reserves and resources.”

Tobias understood it all at once, and said stupidly: "Do you want to cooperate with Chinese scholars?"

"The Human Genome Project is too huge. This is an international cooperation project. The UK should be willing to participate. I am convincing Japan. Therefore, I am going to Asia anyway. Let's take a look at China's biological research by the way. Level." Dalbecco's thinking was very clear.

Tobias smiled wryly: "Yang Rui's research level is world-class, and China's general research level is still far from the international level. Moreover, China may not be able to spend enough funds for the Human Genome Project."

The Human Genome Project is one of the three major projects in the natural sciences. However, unlike the previous Manhattan Project and the Apollo Moon Landing Project, the Human Genome Project is a thorough worldwide cooperation project, with the United States, Britain, France and Germany, and later The European Community is involved, as well as Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and finally China.

However, in terms of structure, such a huge genome project actually follows a very simple cooperation model - whoever gives the money will distribute it, and the result is public welfare.

This model is very similar to that of the United Nations, and its core is that participating countries should allocate funds and expenditures in proportion.

In other words, countries that cannot afford to pay are not eligible to participate.

In this $3 billion big plan, the basic 1% of the funds is $30 million. Let alone China in 1985, China in 1995 was worried about money for a long time when discussing whether to join.

After all, this is a basic scientific project, and the direct benefits that can be obtained are very small. Only developed countries with sufficient funds have the resources to join. Of course, people have to be paid out of money, but compared to the latter, money is still a little harder, because there are too many biologists who want to join this project. It can be said that almost no biologist will refuse this work. Moreover, just like most programs, the United States and Europe have been able to provide a large number of elite scholars, and they don't particularly care whether other countries provide scientific research apes or scientific research kings.

For this reason, Dalbeco has always invited Yang Rui to go to the United States, but has never proposed cooperation with China.

Of course, at this time it has not yet been approved by the U.S. Congress, and it is just a little ink on the characters, so there is no talk of cooperation.

But after calm thinking, Dalbecco's thoughts obviously changed, saying: "I don't think any scholar is isolated, especially in today's world, with the current level of academic development, Yang Rui can succeed, At least it means he has a quasi-world-class team around him, of course, I'll have to see for myself to decide."

"Okay, I will make some preparations in China." Tobias didn't know how to say it.

Dalbecco said very clearly: "You need to understand Yang Rui's team and learn more about China's top teams."