No one repeats Yang Rui's paper on potassium channels, which has always been a thorn in Professor Cai's heart.

Yang Rui is too young, and the temptation of cell is too great, in the long and lonely mountain road of scientific research, there are too many people who can't endure the hardships, or can't stand the temptation, and no one can guarantee that paper fraud will not happen.

Perhaps not a full-blown fraud - it is also easy to identify. The most hidden danger is that it is true in the big place and fake in the small place.

Any groundbreaking paper, even if it is just a small paper, may have hundreds of key points, some of which are even so small that ordinary people can't even imagine, such as whether the locket containing the experimental object in the instrument should be flat-bottomed or round-bottomed?

If the project fails to break through the key points for a long time, or if there is a lack of funding, etc., the temptation to cheat is greatly enhanced.

Yang Rui's paper on potassium channels is clearly designed and logical, which is an advantage, but whether he has broken all the key points in half a year?

Professor Cai is a scholar, and in the words that young man likes, he is a scientist. Scientists are scientific and rational, and they are not easily emotional.

The only way to prove Yang Rui is to repeat the experiment.

The better the repeated experiments, the more repeated experiments are stronger than the paper itself.

And the repeated experiment of potassium channels did make Professor Cai wait for a long time.

Of course, in terms of absolute time, it is not a long time, and if it is a non-hot paper, sometimes there is no repeat of the experiment at all, and even if there is, it is not surprising that it is delayed for several years.

Yang Rui's paper is very novel, so that some people rush to do repeated experiments, but this thing kills time, and it is also a blunt knife to cut meat, and it is very slow.

It can be made now, Yang Rui was also pleasantly surprised, and asked, "Is it published?"

Again, published in Cell, a 17-page article. Professor Cai smiled and added: "It can only be on the cell, and the design is basically the same as yours." ”

Professor Cai laughed as he spoke.

Someone was already listening to their conversation, and at this time, someone had unconsciously come over to congratulate Yang Rui: "The repeated experiments have been published in cell, and your next paper will definitely be on cell." ”

"Thank you. "Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, Yang Rui can't argue with them or something.

In the 80s, people basically didn't have this concept, you had a fight in the bedroom, someone eavesdropped on the wall with a glass, and the next morning they had a united front with you: what your wife said last night was wrong.

Yang Rui still faced Professor Cai and asked, "You said that it can only be published on cell, and the design is the same......

"The basic experimental design is the same, but the genes they found are different from yours, so I said that it can only be published on cell, and there is competition. ”

The editors of Nature and Science are reluctant to publish non-original papers that Cell has published, which is very natural and scientific.

Speaking of which, the three top journals are very tsundere, or in other words, most of the top journals are very tsundere, because there are too many submissions and too many choices, and there will be a tendency towards perfectionism.

Therefore, the rejection of the manuscript is not necessarily a bad paper, but perhaps it is just the dignity of the journal club.

Potassium channels are a hot topic in the biological world, and if there are changes, or any important conclusions are found, Nature and Science will probably not stick to their opinions, but papers with the same design can basically only be published in cell, after all, they are the aforementioned papers published by their own families.

Yang Rui had no experience of publishing in top journals before, but after a turn of his brain, he understood, and couldn't help shaking his head and said: "Foreigners also love face." ”

"Who doesn't love face. However, you did give us the Department of Biology and give us Peking University a face. "Professor Cai's mood is so good, I don't hesitate to praise it at all.

"Is there a reward?" I heard that there was a repetitive paper, although it was determined that there would be this day, Yang Rui also felt a lot less pressure.

Professor Cai laughed, but said, "Coca-Cola doesn't give you enough benefits?"

"It cost tens of thousands of dollars. Yang Rui didn't hide it, just a look of labor income.

"The school should really consider giving you a reward. "Professor Cai is not talking about the biology department, but about the school.

Yang Rui couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't expect Professor Cai to speak so well.

A few hours later, after seeing the latest issue of "Cell", Yang Rui understood why.

It turned out to be Hopkins University who did the potassium channel repeat experiment.

If Harvard University is the big brother in the field of education, Hopkins University is the big brother in the field of research.

As the first research university in the United States, Hopkins University has been the university with the largest research funding in the United States for 33 consecutive years, and of course, its output is also amazing, dozens of Nobel laureates just represent its cutting-edge level, and more than 3,000 faculty and staff, with research as the goal, strive to move forward, is its most terrifying place.

To put it bluntly, just one Hopkins University, in the 80s, the research strength exceeded the entire research strength of a third world country, such as Malaysia in the 80s, the level of scientists in its National Academy of Sciences was not as good as the level of second-tier professors of Hopkins University, and its research funding, paper output, patent applications, awards, etc., were also much inferior to Hopkins University.

Many people may not know or care about the existence of Hopkins University, but in the field of research, especially in the strong research areas of Hopkins University, such as medicine and biology, there are countless people who pay attention to its every move.

The Hopkins professor repeated Yang Rui's paper and published it in Cell, which is nothing less than a big award.

"It's time for us to cash in on our rewards. "At the university-level meeting, Professor Cai was full of spirits.

This semester is definitely a brilliant semester for the Department of Biology.

The leaders of the other faculties had nothing to say, and Hopkins University had all recognized Yang Rui's thesis, and they had no good reason to stop Professor Cai's attack.

After taking the opportunity to show off a few words and gossip a few more, Professor Cai coughed and said, "I have a proposal, please discuss it." ”

"Biology students decide for themselves in the biology department. ”

"It's not easy for our biology department to make decisions about university-level laboratories. Professor Cai said with a smile: "I decided to give Yang Rui a separate independent laboratory before, and I have been dragging it out like this, and now it should be cashed in." ”

"Is it necessary to have a university-level laboratory?" The Department of Physics has always been resource-intensive, and the competition for resources is quite active.

Professor Cai said solemnly: "It is necessary. Yang Rui's scientific research group is now hanging under the Tang Concentration Laboratory, if someone goes to the laboratory building, they can see that under the brand of Tang's laboratory, there are now the signs of the cooperative laboratories of the University of Tokyo in Japan and Stanford University in the United States. ”

In the past, Professor Cai did not dare to fight for this, he was just waiting for the feedback of Yang Rui's paper.

The academic world has always been like this, from the Nobel Prize to the evaluation of professional titles, everyone has the habit of waiting for proof.

Even when the proof comes, not everyone will be rewarded.

It was Yang Rui who published a top journal that received additional attention.

The principal thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to increase the funding for school-level laboratories?"

Professor Cai said: "Yes, it can be 180,000 yuan a year initially. ”

200,000 is too exciting, he reduced 20,000 yuan, this money is the basic money to be given every year, the so-called school-level laboratory, is to be funded by the school. If it is upgraded and becomes a provincial-level laboratory, the province will have to give more money, but the school's money will generally not be less; if it is a ministerial-level laboratory, which ministry will give the sign and which ministry will pay again, if it is a national-level laboratory, as Tang Zhong is applying for now, the central government's annual allocation will exceed one million, and it will increase year by year, and the support of the school will be even less.

Universities and research are such a gold-eating monster that never stops, so to speak, this is an industry where no amount of money is enough.

The principal said noncommittally: "There is not much left in this year's construction budget." ”

Professor Cai said with a smile: "We are going to rebuild an old warehouse, and in addition, we can use a little money to accumulate a total of two or three hundred thousand yuan in the school." ”

This is a necessary expenditure for the newly opened laboratory, but it is definitely an additional expenditure, and the director of the physics department was anxious when he heard it, and said: "If your biology department wants to do a laboratory, you will do it, and if you want the school to pay for it, you should wait for the end of this fiscal year and do it again next year!"

He started, and someone immediately followed: "It's better to put up the frame of the laboratory first, and when next year's review is over, let's save it and then grade it, and then the school level will be at the school level, and the provincial level will be at the provincial level." ”

"That's not good, it's not graded, how can you determine the frame of the laboratory?" Professor Cai didn't give the trickster a chance.

In China, rank is a very important identification code, just like a rank in the military, the rank may not be 100% accurate, but it is certainly more than 50% accurate.

Although the university-level laboratory is a very low-level laboratory, its significance is different, especially the school-level laboratory of Peking University, which can fool a bunch of people when it is taken out, and its basic equipment and other conditions can also be guaranteed.

Without this "school-level" prefix, this independent laboratory would not be much different in nature from the laboratory of a city or county, or a middle school, and it would not even be qualified as an advanced laboratory.

In other words, whether there is a prefix at the school level means whether the laboratory has growth.

The headmaster was silent.

Seeing this, others hurriedly said: "The reward is the reward, but Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, and there is no establishment, let him independently preside over a school-level laboratory, what is the matter?" ”

"You say that Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, but a professor at Hopkins University, but you don't see it that way. "If Professor Cai hadn't prepared a killer weapon, he wouldn't be full of confidence.

As he spoke, Professor Cai opened his briefcase and said, "From Hopkins University, the scientific research group that repeated the experiment of potassium channels has sent a letter praising Peking University and Yang Rui, and I have made a few copies for everyone to see." ”

What he took out was a thick stack of dozens of copies, which made people smell a strong aura of showing off.

It's really worth showing off.

Because this is a text message full of positive energy, full of praise.

A team of four people at Hopkins University explained their original intention to repeat the experiment, and they said good things.

The purely handwritten letter of praise, hundreds of words, all good words, is also admirable.

They praised the logic and ingenuity of the experiments designed by Yang Rui, calling them "exquisite experiments comparable to Cavendish twist scales"; they also praised the rigor and fault tolerance of Yang Rui's experiments, claiming that they had obtained similar or even identical results many times, and while complaining that "it interfered with our experiments," they were glad that Yang Rui's laboratory did not have many personnel, otherwise "our experiments would be meaningless"; finally, Walleston, the corresponding author of the paper and a tenured professor at Hopkins University, praised Peking University and called it " A first-class university that has produced first-class scholars"!

Professor Cai felt that his vanity was satisfied to the greatest extent, and if he looked at other people's expressions, he was about the same satisfaction if he understood them, and if he didn't understand them, he had to look at other people's expressions and pretend to be satisfied.

A letter of appreciation from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, for the gentlemen of Peking University, there is no better recognition than this.

Comrade Principal also shook his head when he saw it, and the way his eyes were rolling, obviously more than once.

"Yang Rui's experiment is very difficult. Once satisfied, the principal began to explore the story behind the thank-you letter.

Professor Cai smiled: "It is very difficult, the research team at Hopkins University should have designed a new method, but as a result, the new method encountered too many problems, and in order to catch up with the progress and compete for the second place, they finally had to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan." ”

Exclamations and chuckles rang out in unison.

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