Chapter 344

"Now Richard knows." Huang Mao looked at Xu Anqing's back and asked, "do you know this student? Otherwise, I'll tell him. Don't give Richard a report. It's a matter of days to delay. "

"No, Richard knew it." Yang Rui made a little consideration and said: "the domestic laboratory level is our school's at most. Richard's new laboratory can't exceed many, and so can the researchers. Except Richard himself, he can only find researchers from China, and the progress can't be faster than us."

Yang Rui is quite confident. On the one hand, his confidence comes from himself. The data and papers in his mind can make the experiment less detours. On the other hand, Yang Rui's confidence comes from Huang Mao. Although Huang Mao himself didn't realize it, if he can successfully grow up to be an academician, he must be outstanding in scientific research.

Huang Mao has not yet proved his strength with unattainable facts, but he has completed systematic learning and basic accumulation. Normally speaking, now he has the foundation to break out in the laboratory. The only difference is that after two or three years of seniority and accumulation, it will break out in the school laboratory, or now it will break out in Yang Rui's laboratory.

The most important thing is that Huang Mao's research direction in that year included potassium channel correlation. For a researcher, his research direction certainly has some ups and downs. However, if he becomes famous in his 40s and 50s and still does research in this field, he must have advantages or interests in this direction.

As a kind of research, it should be a category unknown to human beings. We don't know what it looks like or what knowledge we need to study it. Does it need a strong mathematical level? Is a comprehensive chemical foundation needed? Do you need to reserve in fluid science or electromagnetics? Before the research, no one can say, especially in the biological system, there are many great masters who are good at mathematics, chemistry and physics. Countless researchers have to fight for both strength and luck. For the same research, different directions of interpretation can lead to completely different results.

For example, the Nobel Prize discovery of DNA double helix structure is the helix parameters obtained by Watson and Crick through the analysis of X-ray diffraction photos of DNA crystal. There is no corresponding physical and mathematical basis, and no one can play with it.

From the point of view of "behind the horse", Huang Mao obviously has the right posture in solving problems related to potassium channels, and maybe has the metaphysical addition of inspiration.

Yang Rui thinks that he is sure to deal with Richard by cooperating with Huang Mao and building a laboratory with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Although Richard is an ox man at the University of California, he is only an ox man. He is in the center of knowledge and has the advantages of information and material. In China 30 years later, if a professor like Richard comes back to Peking University, that is, an ordinary visiting scholar, he will definitely not be treated as an academician.

Huang Mao did not have such confidence as Yang Rui, even the literature did not see what care laden with worry: "Richard is a strong enough person. In my opinion, the gel Laboratory of Lao Tang is also supported by him alone, other assistant researchers, or assistant water level."

Yang Rui laughed: "you are also an assistant. Do you want to say that you are useless?"

"It doesn't matter whether I'm useful or not. We need our research to be useful, otherwise it will be a lot of trouble. Can you bear the result that all the research funds are wasted? " Huang Mao said in a low voice: "even if there is no result in ordinary research, the process is useful. What we are doing now, once Richard takes the lead, the intermediate process is useless. The whole experiment will cost at least 100000 yuan, even if you have a dividend... "

"Half a million." Yang Rui interrupts Huang Mao.

Huang Mao puzzled asked: "what?"

"I have prepared 500000 yuan of funds, so I can bear 100000 yuan of funds loss. Of course, I can also bear 500000 yuan of funds loss. Now it's February, and by the end of March, I still have dividends in the new quarter." Yang Rui's previous dividends have not been spent, so he has quite a lot of money. He's actually in the perfect stage of being a researcher - with high and long-term royalty returns.

After 30 years, most biology professors are pursuing what Yang Rui has done. Why do so many people devote themselves to the targeted research of cancer resistance or AIDS? In the final analysis, these lifelong medication diseases can provide long-term and high patent money.

If you rank the assets of professors, the professors of biology and medicine are usually at the top of the list, and the poorer the professors of basic subjects are. In short, professors who can make patents are the most comfortable, and they can benefit from one-time investment for a lifetime, followed by professors who can make projects. Many professors make millions a year, and there are many people who exceed the standard. The lowest income is professors who are purely academic. Even if they can engage in some academic corruption, such as taking 500000 out of 1 million, the process is complicated and risky, It's not the perfect way.In China in the 1980s, professors had not yet opened up a corresponding business model. For a time, more than half of them sold tea and eggs. As for Huang Mao, a small lecturer, he could almost be linked with the poor. Listening to Yang Rui's easy talk about 500000, it was really difficult to carry out.

Huang Mao worried that Yang Rui was bragging, so he said, "you still have the heart to laugh. This is a serious matter."

"I'm serious. Half a million dollars, I promise." Yang Rui stopped for a moment and then said, "I know Richard must be a good man. If our level and experience can't catch up with others, we can't lose money. Otherwise, how can we compete?"

"Are you putting all your eggs in one basket?" Huang Mao glared.

"It's only half a million yuan. How can it be a gamble?" Yang Rui said in a ostentatious tone.

Huang Mao shook his head: "even if you have 1 million yuan, you can't spend it like this. Is it impossible in the future? If this project can make money, it's OK. If you can't get a cent back, don't you care? "

"There must be heartache, but we still have something to do. If we do it well, we can not only get back the cost, maybe we can make a profit." The research on potassium channel is a step away from pharmaceutical industry. A large number of pharmaceutical companies will be interested in this patent.

If not, Richard would not want to come down.

"The money is yours, you decide." In fact, Huang Mao is willing to do research with sufficient funds. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "we'd better start now. We can only win but not lose. Otherwise, we will be bitten by Richard. As the student said just now, there are more people who believe in our plagiarism than those who believe in Richard's plagiarism."

"Sharpening the knife doesn't miss the firewood cutter. Let's just be our own." Yang Rui pointed to the literature at hand and continued to look down at the journal.

To do this kind of research, we must first understand the previous studies. If 20 years later, this is the process of inputting a few keywords and then searching for relevant literature. But in China in 1984, keyword search was not so easy.

Even if there are some papers in Yang Rui's mind, they may not be missed completely. On the other hand, potassium channel is the current research hotspot, and they really need to know the progress of others and build their own arguments on the basis of others. This is an inevitable part of scientific research. If you want to engage in Riemannian geometry, you have to have Euclidean geometry as the foundation. For example, papers like potassium channel need to rely on more foundations.

Without a database and a search engine, Yang Rui and Huang Mao would have to turn books and periodicals one by one.

Thanks to the good conditions of Peking University, their English level is high, otherwise, it is a finished paper in front of ordinary people dare not copy.

How many certain researches will be discussed and debated, and no level of plagiarism papers can be plagiarized.

After reading several journals, half an hour passed. During this period, sun Ruyue went to the library to help them exchange books, which was an additional benefit of Yang Rui's silver bullet offensive.

Huang Mao finished reading a paper and did not read the next one. Instead, he served tea for a while and asked, "what if Richard's laboratory in China is a cover?"

"What do you mean?"

"It takes a month for the lab to be set up. Richard should have been racing against the clock. Is it a waste of a month waiting for our school to build the lab for him?"

"You suspect he's at the University of California, and he's already doing experiments?"

"It's not impossible. If he gives an order, it's not strange that he starts to do it first."

"Then we're going to speed it up." Yang Rui has no other way. He can't influence the United States.

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