Yang Rui was not in a hurry to open the laboratory.

It's also an important laboratory in his plans.

It is true that Sinovel Labs is a wholly owned laboratory, but if all the experiments are handed over to Sinovel Labs, then Sinovel will have to go out of business sooner or later. Not to mention that Yang Rui can't afford to play, there will always be times when they can't afford to play when they pinch together the world's richest people in their previous lives.

It's just a map of the human genome, which cost hundreds of billions of dollars, but it is just a preliminary image, to play in depth, hundreds of billions, trillions, tens of trillions of dollars, there will never be an end, just look at the results of Reagan's Star Wars, the huge Soviet Union has been crippled, and it is too difficult for individuals to do basic research.

It's not the same with national resources.

If it is a European and American country, private laboratories are still qualified to take national resources, the famous Bell Labs, and IBM Laboratories, which has become more and more powerful since the millennium, are real examples.

But in China, especially in the 80s, only government laboratories had access to state resources.

Yang Rui invested all the remaining official funds in this laboratory.

As a university-level laboratory, Yang Rui's independent laboratory originally only had more than 100,000 yuan of infrastructure funds, plus more than 100,000 yuan of first-year funds, and the former was not directly given to him, and the latter was allocated on schedule.

In fact, what Yang Rui has now is the 50,000 yuan that was announced.

If it is a normal process, if Yang Rui wants to get the 50,000 yuan, he must first come up with a complete set of experimental plans to explain his expenses for a period of time in the future, and then he can get the money on time.

All in all, taking money from the government is not so easy to get. Many well-known professors, after their worth has increased, have refused to take state funds. Because compared to other organizations, government funding is the most old-fashioned kind.

If you give less, it's better not to take it.

The situation in China is similar, but there are certain differences, like Academician Cai, who has outstanding prestige, does not have much money, and is less managed, and the money he helps Yang Rui get can also bypass some necessary or unnecessary procedures.

In addition, as far as the domestic reality is concerned, 50,000 yuan is really a lot.

But as far as the international reality is concerned, 50,000 yuan is really less.

However, scientific research has never been a domestic thing, such as "filling the domestic gap", which is obviously a repetition of existing experiments, Yang Rui is really too lazy to do.

But if you want to fill the international gap, the first installment of 50,000 yuan is too little for a brand new laboratory.

The same is true for the hundreds of thousands of infrastructure costs.

Fortunately, Yang Rui has other channels for money.

The first is $150,000 from Coca-Cola, which is inconvenient to enter Yang Rui's Huarui laboratory, but there is no problem at all when entering the independent laboratory of Peking University.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Foreign Trade also gave Yang Rui a sum of RMB, Yang Rui used most of it before, but there were still nearly 100,000 yuan left.

Professor Cai gave 600,000 yuan on behalf of Peking University, and the rest is more than 100,000 yuan.

Taken together, these funds can raise Yang Rui's laboratory by more than one grade.

Although it is still not as good as Tang's centralized laboratory, Yang Rui has another way, he is concentrating funds to buy large equipment.

GE's full set of amino acid analysis systems attracted countless onlookers on the first day they were delivered to the campus.

Assistant Professor Tan in Professor Tang's laboratory stared at the engineer installing the system, reading the manual, and drooled: "The cation exchange chromatography column uses the gradient elution of pH and temperature changes, and ninhydrin is derived and colored...... It's good, it's good. ”

The engineer who flew in from Singapore was installing, and Professor Tan was touching it.

Xu Zhengping's eyes were also excited, but he also asked worriedly: "The money has bought this set of instruments, can the rest be configured?"

Yang Rui asked rhetorically: "What else do you want to configure?"

"Centrifuge spectrophotometer, chromatograph, microscope, I also want some electrochemical instruments, such as acidity meter, ion meter, conductivity meter......" Xu Zhengping counted with his fingers.

Yang Rui laughed: "We only have so much money, how can we afford so many instruments." ”

"You used all the money to buy this?" Xu Zhengping asked what he was most worried about.

A full set of amino acid analyzers occupies the appearance of two sets of experimental tables, and it is very expensive to look at the appearance. Of course, it's actually quite expensive.

Yang Rui nodded and said, "It's almost, the rest of the money can buy some reagents, and a refrigerator or something." ”

Xu Zhengping suddenly had a bad premonition: "With such an expensive instrument, how did you get Professor Cai's permission." ”

Even if the funds are allocated to a certain laboratory, this money is not to buy whatever instruments you want, and there are still stamps to be stamped.

Yang Rui was no exception, but he shrugged his shoulders very easily and said, "I told Professor Cai that this is the first full set of amino acid analyzers in China, and he agreed." In addition, the money I used was mainly Coca-Cola's funding, and the director had no reason to object. ”

"This is the first station in China?" Like many Chinese people now, Xu Zhengping is also very sensitive to the first.

Yang Rui nodded and said: "GE's new product, the Chinese Academy of Sciences bought an old one a few years ago, but it was not even semi-automatic, at that time, there was little foreign exchange, and what I bought was an outdated model, and there was a generation difference of more than two generations with this system." ”

"You're going to make a name for yourself with this. Xu Zhengping saw Yang Rui's purpose at a glance.

Yang Rui nodded unshyly and asked, "Is it useful?"

"It works, of course it works, you just look at them. Xu Zhengping pouted angrily, the researchers who came to visit the laboratory were afraid that there were dozens of people, so they spoke, the instrument was already crowded, half of the box of instructions were dismantled, and the people behind couldn't make a copy.

However, the reputation of the laboratory is varied, and the reputation of having the only one in China for such and such an instrument did not help Xu Zhengping.

Since he is going to work in Yang Rui's laboratory, he not only needs such an amino acid analyzer, but also needs more ordinary instruments.

Things like spectrophotometer centrifuge water baths, which range from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, are available in almost every laboratory, and the reason why they are so is because they are used too frequently.

And without these instruments, the efficiency of the laboratory is reduced by a factor of many times.

Xu Zhengping said angrily: "The laboratory configuration is so deformed, how do you ask me to do experiments." ”

"The equipment in the public laboratory is not good?" Yang Rui's tone was a little teasing.

"Of course not, it takes two hours to line up a centrifuge in a public laboratory. Xu Zhengping's eyes were about to burst into flames.

Yang Rui saw that the flirting was in place, and hurriedly held down Xu Zhengping, and said with a smile: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient......

"How can I ......" Xu Zhengping's voice instantly raised, and he hurriedly suppressed it again, and said in a low voice: "How can I rest assured, in this way, the speed of my experiments is two or three times slower than in Lao Tang's laboratory." ”

"Wait a minute. Yang Rui continued to hold him, then looked around, and beckoned when he found the target.

A researcher of Xu Zhengping's age walked over with a smile.

"Professor Lang, how are you thinking about it?" Yang Rui asked with a smile.

Professor Lang looked at Xu Zhengping and said, "Just use it?"

"Professor Xu and his research team use up to four people, four days a week, or a full day, six and a half days. ”

"Four days is a bit much. ”

"Here I will give you two and a half days a week, or one full day a week, and the ordinary laboratory will be replaced with a new amino acid analyzer, and you will not suffer a loss. This is the only one in the country, and after this village, there is no such shop. Yang Rui bargained skillfully.

When Xu Zhengping heard this, he had calmed down. This scene was all too familiar to him.

In today's labs, unless it's top-notch, there are always instruments that you want to use, but you can't buy them, or you can't afford them.

In addition, some non-ordinary instruments need to be used in a certain project, and most of the non-tyrant researchers can only find ways to borrow or change them.

Borrowing is naturally very embarrassing and troublesome, and it is often easier to negotiate the conditions to exchange instruments with each other.

Two laboratories, one bought a gas chromatograph, the other bought a liquid chromatograph, of course, they all bought according to their most commonly used needs, but the commonly used gas phase, occasionally encounter the demand for liquid phase, liquid phase, occasionally encounter the demand for gas phase, is it difficult to buy another set?

Of course, it is better to negotiate with each other, and it is better to communicate with each other - local tyrants are casual.

The main difference between an AC instrument and a borrowed instrument is that the instrument is equivalent, and the other is that it is negotiated in advance.

The meaning of instrument equivalence is that I have the gas phase, you have the liquid phase, we complement each other, and in some cases, the two laboratories can even negotiate in advance and purchase the instrument separately. But if a laboratory only has mass instruments such as centrifuges, it is impossible for AC instruments to happen, and one party can only borrow the other's and exchange their time and cheeks for instruments.

It's also important to negotiate in advance, sometimes even more so than instrument parity.

Because most of the research instruments are delicate, some have to be turned on in advance, some can't be stopped halfway, some have to be debugged every day, and some have to be stopped for debugging. All in all, if you can't negotiate the time to use the instrument in advance, temporary borrowing will always cause all kinds of trouble, not only for yourself, but also for the other party, and then make the borrowing behavior full of all kinds of blank eyes.

Compared with borrowing, exchanging or exchanging instruments is a relatively normal behavior, and it is certainly not as good as in your own laboratory, but in terms of the environment in the 80s, some exchanges are good, academicians cannot guarantee self-sufficiency, at most they send others to other laboratories to be looked down upon.

Xu Zhengping didn't need to go to other laboratories, he just had to ask the experimental dog under his hand to bring things to Professor Lang's laboratory for processing.

Therefore, seeing that Yang Rui had negotiated the laboratory exchange, he immediately quieted down.

"There is no electrochemical thing in Lao Lang's laboratory. Xu Zhengping is still concerned about practical issues.

Yang Rui chuckled: "It's okay, let's just use the amino acid analyzer for three days a week now." ”

"You can change it for four days!" Xu Zhengping's elementary school double-hundred-point skill crit, and his face was smiling miserably.

"I've got a list, and you can change whichever you want. Yang Rui handed Xu Zhengping a piece of letterhead, which was full of the name of the laboratory and the main instruments of the laboratory.

"You're ready to swap it for a long time?" Xu Zhengping understood, no wonder Yang Rui bought an expensive instrument with high versatility.

Yang Rui had a cheap and obedient expression: "No way, it's only 150,000 US dollars in total, if you want to buy everything, it means that you can't buy anything." ”

$150,000 is more than enough to set up an ordinary laboratory, but what Yang Rui wants is not an ordinary laboratory.

Xu Zhengping looked down at the letterhead, and couldn't say whether he agreed or disagreed. For him, 150,000 US dollars is already too much to think, in fact, most professors in China cannot get 150,000 US dollars, let alone associate professors without independent laboratories, 150,000 yuan is difficult.

Buying the only instrument in the country and then communicating with other laboratories is almost no reference value for Xu Zhengping.

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