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"Quoted 77 times a month. Professor Cai looked at the "New Moon Summary" and smiled dumbly: "Everyone is desperately exploring the function of potassium channels." ”

"Of course, the next paper to make a potassium channel function has almost booked a place in a top journal, and as far as I know, both Science and Nature are contacting well-known laboratories in the hope of getting a repeatable paper. Dean Liu's turkey smile is iconic, and the soft flesh of his flabby throat is shaking around, making people feel his pride.

Professor Cai laughed twice and said, "The second one can still be made, but what should I do if the third one is made?"

"As long as the new channel function is fascinating, I won't insist on it, novelty is such a thing, you can't have a standard for potassium channel, a standard for aspirin. "Aspirin, as an old drug that has been invented for 100 years, will reappear in top journals from time to time, just because there are some new discoveries made about him.

By the same token, potassium channels have various functions, and if they are important, they naturally have the opportunity to be featured in top journals.

Of course, to delve into the function of potassium channels is beyond the scope of Yang Rui's paper, but top journals are like this, and citations are indispensable.

Professor Cai didn't think about this situation carefully, nodded involuntarily, and said, "If you say this, there is really a chance." No wonder so many labs are involved. ”

"If everyone is competing for second place, and they hear that there are two or three well-known laboratories involved in the research, they should retreat. ”

"Yes, it means that everyone has seen a new hot spot...... Well, those who publish papers now should be those who retreat from the difficulty, there are dates or not, and then they can be published after they are played, which shows that foreigners' periodicals also love to catch up with fashion. ”

Dean Liu laughed.

Professor Cai picked up a few well-known journals and read them, and after a while, his expression became more serious, and he said: "Imperialism will not die." ”

"Huh?" Dean Liu wasn't sure if he was telling a joke or if he was speaking seriously.

Professor Cai snorted, didn't have a smile, but didn't wave his hand angrily, and said, "Several authors repeated Yang Rui's experiment, but they didn't find the mutant gene, so they complained here." ”

"What are you complaining about?" Dean Liu's turkey laughed and put it away, the paper doesn't say every word, at least it has to be carefully considered, no paper can complain.

Professor Cai pursed his lips and said, "Isn't it true that no one can repeat the experiment yet?" ”

"No one has repeated it yet?" Dean Liu repeated, he was not as relaxed as Professor Cai.

Scientific experiments are certain to be repeatable, and if there are any unshakable foundations of human civilization, this is it.

Two balls hit the ground at the same time, don't you believe it? You stand downstairs and watch me jump.

The mirage is a distorted light, don't you believe it?

Raise a chestnut, another chestnut, another chestnut, thank you, please keep your arrest warrant.

Of course, it takes time to repeat the experiment.

Haruko Kobokata, a beautiful Japanese scientist who has now been regarded as a standard example of paper fraud, fell on the problem that the experiment could not be repeated.

Prior to this, Haruko Kobo was highly praised in Japan, and to put it mildly, if her research became a reality, she could not guarantee that she would win the Nobel Prize, but it was not difficult to nominate once or twice, and in terms of Japan's social inertia, in another twenty or thirty years, Haruko Kohokata would be nominated for a Minister of Education or something, if she had a political heart.

However, everything fell down on the issue that the paper could not be repeated.

And before Haruko Kohokata, every year someone fell for the same reason, like cutting leeks.

Professor Cai rethought Yang Rui's paper and said, "I haven't heard of the exact repetition experiment, but his paper is very clear logically, and I don't think it's a big problem." ”

"Well, there should be no problem. Dean Liu laughed twice, as if he was comforting himself, or Professor Cai.

Professor Cai's face was calm, and his previous good mood was gone.

Yang Rui's experiments on potassium channels are logically smooth and beautiful, and the only problem is in the selection of mutant genes.

Finding mutant genes requires a certain amount of qi to be made, or in other words, if you do too much, you can naturally make it.

For example, the SLO channel found in Yang Rui's paper has a 10-fold increase in conductivity.

This manifestation is not easy to detect, and more importantly, the mutated gene must alter the expression of the gene in order to detect the change.

Overall, the set of experiments designed by Yang Rui is a set of experiments that require time and money, and if enough time and money are spent, it is likely that the results will be made in the end. It is also because of this logic that it has attracted a number of foreign laboratories to participate, they are not afraid of spending money and time, they are afraid of the risk of nothing.

However, how long and how much money will be enough is anyone's guess until the results of the experiment are available.

So, will Yang Rui do paper fraud because of saving time or money?

Professor Cai is reluctant to think so, but it is not without precedent for talented and promising young people to suddenly commit seemingly incomprehensible cheating.

The cruelty of scientific research makes young people in this field like soldiers charging at machine gun positions, and only a very few lucky ones can rush across Long Beach, receive awards, and then become officers. Those who are unlucky, or who do not stay, will be eliminated.

If time is of the essence, if funding is of the essence, the researcher has to make a decision in a dilemma.

Thinking of this, Professor Cai shook his head and said, "We still have to support Yang Rui, don't think nonsense first." Now that so many people cite Yang Rui's papers, and there are many famous people in the field of biology, it cannot be said that so many people are blind. It's only been a little over a month now, and there's nothing strange about it that the experiment can't be repeated. Yang Rui has been doing it for more than half a year. ”

"That's right. Dean Liu smiled and touched his head: "I think too much." ”

"That's why I said that imperialism will not die, and when we see that there are powerful papers and scholars on our side, they will say strange things. Professor Cai said this, but there was still a cloud in his mind.

After a while, Professor Cai said, "Aren't there people in our college who are on this topic? ”

Dean Liu understood: "I'll ask tomorrow." ”

After a pause, Dean Liu asked again: "How do you say about quoting rewards?"

"Let's put it ...... first," Professor Cai hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'll go to Old Tang's laboratory tomorrow and take a look." ”

It is also a good choice to learn about Yang Rui's new research from the side.

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