Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"It doesn't look like a very complicated technology." Nathan is a senior researcher. If it wasn't for Dalbecco's retention, he would probably have gone to a university as a professor by now.

In terms of academics, Nathan has always been famous for his outspokenness. Even if Dalbeco gave the order, he still said: "Replacing isotope labels with fluorescent labels sounds good, and it will make the experimental results more intuitive, but it is too troublesome. It is identified and monitored by a detector, and such a detector does not exist at present."

"We can make a detector like this," Dalbecco said.

"kindness?"

"Nathan, the total funding we're looking to request for the Human Genome Project is $3 billion, and we'll develop a detector, if fluorescent markers make sense."

"Let the four bases emit four colors of light respectively. Of course, this must be meaningful. If the detector works well, it can save a lot of manpower. The premise is that we don't need to spend too much money to develop a detector. .”

Dalbecco sighed, and said, "Nathan, you are a genius in the laboratory, but you don't always understand the overall situation of the project. Isn't the purpose of our human genetic map to mark the positional relationship of the four bases? We There are 3 billion bases to measure, so as long as the fluorescent labeling method is clear and accurate, and there are no obvious conflicts, we should spend a lot of money to develop detectors to automate the way, you are right?"

"Maybe, but this person...is still a Chinese, and he is not sure about this technology, he is just hypothesizing..."

"That's why I asked you to verify it." Dalbecco looked helpless.

"Okay, let me verify." Nathan said with obvious reluctance: "Not every good idea can be verified."

"Yang Rui, who is also a Chinese who wrote this letter, has published a paper on "Cell". He also made the technology you saw before." Dalbeco stared at the content of genetics all day, Naturally, he knew Yang Rui.

Nathan was a laboratory nerd, he just frowned and went back to do experiments. He himself has published five papers as the first author on CNS, and participated in the publication of more than 15 papers as the second author or less, and he doesn't pay much attention to one cell.

However, a cell can also explain the problem, at least, just like Dalbeco's request, this is a hypothesis worthy of verification.

Dalbecco returned to his desk, wrote a short message at his desk, and sent it back to Yang Rui.

In the letter, Dalbecco expressed his willingness to understand the relevant issues, but after two or three sentences, Dalbecco focused on fluorescent labeling.

He wants to know more about the research on fluorescent markers, not—scholars may be wise men who are indifferent to money, but when it comes to academic research, scholars are still full-fledged animals of interest.

Of course, compared to the ubiquitous power of money, the weaker the power of academic research, the less time they have to engage in interests.

It is these high-level scholars who are most involved in academic interests.

The letter was sent to China in the fastest way, and Dalbeco attached the postage for the reply.

It’s not that he’s too caring, but that he’s used to communicating with scholars from third world countries in this way. Reducing the communication cost of the other party can increase his information acquisition rate. At Dalbeco’s level, it is a very wise investment to do so.

In the next few days, apart from daily affairs, Dalbeco mainly focused on Nathan's experimental verification and waited for Yang Rui's reply.

Doing experiments is a tough job, especially for cutting-edge research in the world. Sometimes just looking for available reference materials, or even looking for a frame of reference, makes people dizzy.

Dalbeco needed such a breakthrough, but it was impossible for him to do it all.

The Human Genome Project will be an international cooperation project, and it was so at the beginning of its design. In the future, Dalbeco expects to see tens of thousands of people participate in this project, and his own work cannot be to do a certain research in person.

He can only find the answer, stitch together these fragmented answers, and then strive for the approval of the American academic circle and Congress.

A $3 billion allocation, if not a one-time or one-year allocation, is a massive undertaking.

Dalbecco doesn't have enough time for 24 hours a day. Naturally, he doesn't have time to care about the ownership of a technology, let alone go to court. The only reason he replied to the letter was because Yang Rui cared, and he just pretended to care in exchange for Yang Rui's respect for him. Project concerns only.

Dalbeco waited a long time anxiously for this concern.

Just after cursing China's postal system for the third or fourth time, a thick letter finally arrived at Dalbeco's laboratory.

When Dalbecco saw this thickness, his mood suddenly brightened, and he immediately asked someone to bring Nathan's experiment records, and prepared to read the letter sent by Yang Rui while reading Nathan's experiment records.

At noon, Nathan found out about this while eating, and came here in a hurry.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Nathan entered Dalbecco's laboratory and saw the sandwich on the side of his table.

"I'm not hungry." Dalbeco threw the sandwich into the trash.

"Did Yang Rui send a letter?" Nathan sat across from Dalbecco.

"Are you interested?"

"Don't call me a racist, I just don't know Asian institutions."

"Oh, how is the experimental verification?"

"The progress is good, I have some doubts." Nathan said and stretched his head to read the letter in Dalbecco's hand.

Those who do research are not fools. If there is a standard answer, I will definitely look at it first.

In fact, reading literature is a process of finding answers, at least a relative process. For some simple scientific research, the final result can often be guessed through the literature. Doing an experiment is like reading the answer and then making up numbers.

Nathan is not interested in the fluorescent labeling method itself, and he doesn't think it is a challenging task. However, the answer to this experiment is very useful, and Nathan wants to read it from Yang Rui's letter.

Dalbecco handed the letter to Nathan and said, "Read it for yourself, I've already read it."

"After reading it, you still read it. He wrote data in it?" Nathan suddenly realized this, and hurried to see it. The basic content most needed in the laboratory is data.

Dalbeco said: "The data was written, but not all of it."

"He didn't finish the experiment either?"

"No, it's done."

"Isn't that a good thing? Let him send the paper."

"He said the thesis is being written, but..." Dalbecco curled his lips and said, "You can read it yourself."

Nathan was in a hurry, so he had to scan down ten lines at a time.

Seeing the end, Nathan finally found the reason: "He designed a detector and applied for a patent?"

"Yes." Dalbecco muffled.

"Is he unwilling to authorize? We are doing basic academic work..."

"He agreed to license it for a nominal fee of $1."

"What's the question?"

"He wants me to be his expert witness." Dalbecco signaled Nathan to read on.

Nathan then read the rest of the tail, and sure enough, he saw Yang Rui's tactful request.

After learning a little bit about the whole story, Nathan laughed and said, "Dr. Dalbecco, I will leave the rest of the work to you. I hope you can get all the experimental data as soon as possible. Our team will do other work for the time being. "

Dalbeco could only nod his head. It is time-consuming to testify in court, but compared to repeated experiments in the laboratory and patent barriers that he does not know whether he can break through, appearing in court saves time.

"I hate smart guys." Dalbecco threw Yang Rui's letter aside, thought for a while, picked up the phone, and said, "Give me the relevant articles I found, and then call Benjamin Brown Mazel Law Firm So, find Benjamin and say it's a related lawsuit."

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