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

On the academic side, Nathan has always been known for his outspokenness, and even when Darbeko gave the order, he still said: "Replacing isotope labels with fluorescent labels sounds good and makes the results more intuitive, but it's a little too cumbersome." It needs to be identified and monitored by detectors, which do not exist at present. ”

"We can make such a detector. ”

"Huh?"

"Nathan, the total funding we want to request for the Human Genome Project is $3 billion, and we're going to develop a detector that makes sense if fluorescent labeling makes sense. ”

"Of course, it certainly makes sense to have four colors of light emitted by four bases, and if the detector works well, it can save a lot of manpower. The premise is that we don't have to spend too much money to develop the detector. ”

Darbeko sighed and said, "Nathan, you are a genius in the laboratory, but you always don't have enough understanding of the overall situation of the project, we do human genome mapping, isn't it just to mark the position relationship of the four bases? We have to measure 3 billion bases, so as long as the fluorescent labeling method is clear and accurate, and there is no obvious conflict, we should spend a lot of money to develop the detector, so as to use the automated way, right?"

"Maybe, but this man...... Still a Chinese, he's not very sure about this technique, he's just hypothetical......"

"That's why you're verifying it. Darbeko looked helpless.

"Okay, I'll verify. Nathan said with obvious reluctance, "Not every good idea can be verified. ”

"Yang Rui, also the Chinese who wrote this letter, has published a paper in Cell, and the PCR technology you saw before was also done by him. Darbeko stared at the content of genetics all day long, so he naturally knew Yang Rui.

Nathan was a lab nerd, so he just frowned and went back to the experiment. He has published five papers as the first author on CNS, and more than 15 papers as the second author or below.

However, a cell is telling, at least, as Darbeko demands, a hypothesis worth verifying.

Darbeko returned to his desk and wrote a text message to Yang Rui.

In the letter, Dalbeko said that he was willing to learn about PCR-related issues, but after two or three sentences, Darbeko focused on fluorescent labeling.

He wanted to learn more about fluorescent labeling, not PCR – academics may be indifferent to money, but academics are still very interested in academic research.

Of course, the weaker the power of academic research relative to the ubiquitous power of money, the less time they have to get involved in the interests.

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

The letter was sent to China as quickly as possible, and Darbeko enclosed the letter with the postage of the reply.

It's not that he's too intimate, it's that he's used to communicating with scholars from third world countries like this, and reducing the cost of communication can increase his information acquisition rate, which is a very wise investment for Darbeko's class.

In the next few days, in addition to his daily affairs, Darbeko mainly focused on Nathan's experimental verification and waiting for Yang Rui's reply.

Doing experiments is a very hard job, especially in the world's cutting-edge research, sometimes just looking for usable reference materials, or even looking for a frame of reference, can make people dizzy.

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

The Human Genome Project will be an international collaborative project, and it was designed to be so. In the future, Darbeko expects to see tens of thousands of people participate in this project, and it is impossible for him to do research himself.

He can only find the answers, stitch together these fragmented answers, and then win the approval of the American academic community and Congress.

The $3 billion grant is a huge amount of work, if not a one-time or one-year grant.

Darbeko doesn't use it 24 hours a day, so naturally he doesn't have time to care about the ownership of a technology, let alone go to court, and the only reason he replied was because Yang Rui cared, and he just pretended to care in exchange for Yang Rui's concern for his project.

Darbeko waited anxiously for this concern for a long time.

Just after cursing China's postal system for the third or fourth time, a thick letter was finally sent to the Darbeko laboratory.

When Darbeko saw this thickness, his mood suddenly brightened, and he immediately asked people to bring Nathan's experimental records, preparing to read the letter sent by Yang Rui while reading Nathan's experimental records.

At noon, Nathan learned about it while he was eating, and he hurried over.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Nathan entered Darbeko's lab and saw the sandwich on the edge of his table.

"I'm not hungry. Darbeko threw the sandwich into the garbage basket.

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

"Are you interested?"

"Don't say I'm like a race, I just don't know anything about research institutions in Asia. ”

"Oh, how's the experiment going?"

"Good progress, a bit of a doubt. Nathan said, looking at the letter in Darbeko's hand.

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

In fact, reading the literature is the process of finding the answer, at least the relative process, some simple scientific research, often through the literature can guess the final result, doing experiments is like looking at the answer, and then making up the numbers.

Nathan was not interested in fluorescent labeling itself and did not find it a challenging task, but the answer to this experiment was useful, and Nathan was eager to see it in Yang Rui's letter.

Darbeko handed the letter to Nathan and said, "See for yourself, I've read it." ”

"After reading it, you still hold it, and he wrote the data in it?" Nathan suddenly realized this, and hurriedly looked at it, the most needed basic content in the laboratory is data.

Darbeko said: "I wrote the data, but I didn't write the whole thing. ”

ēHe didn't finish his experiments either?"

"No, it's done. ”

"Isn't that a good thing? Let him send me the papers. ”

"He said the paper was being written, but ......" Darbeko pouted, "see for yourself." ”

Nathan was in a hurry, so he had to sweep down ten lines at a glance.

At the end, Nathan finally found the reason: "He designed a detector and patented it?"

"Yes. Darbeko muffled.

"Won't he authorize? We're doing basic academic work......

He agreed to authorize, and only for a nominal $1 fee. ”

"What's the problem?"

"He asked me to be his expert witness. Darbeko motioned for Nathan to continue.

Nathan then read the remaining bit of tail, and sure enough, he saw Yang Rui's euphemistic request.

After understanding a little bit about the whole story, Nathan laughed and said, "Dr. Dalbeko, the rest of the work is left to you, I hope you can get all the experimental data as soon as possible, and our team will do other work for the time being." ”

Dalbeko could only nod his head, it is time-consuming to testify in court, but compared to repeated experiments in the laboratory, there are patent barriers that I don't know if I can break through, and appearing in court is the time-saving.

"I hate shrewd guys. Darbeko threw Yang Rui's letter aside, thought about it, picked up the phone, and said, "Find me the relevant article on PCR, and then call the law firm of Benjamin Brown Maazel to find Benjamin and say that it is about the PCR lawsuit." ”

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