Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"It's cited 77 times a month." Professor Cai looked at the "New Moon Summary" and laughed: "Everyone is desperately exploring the function of potassium channels."

"Of course I have to work hard. The next paper on the function of the potassium channel is almost reserved for the top journal. As far as I know, both "Science" and "Nature" are contacting well-known laboratories, hoping to get a reproducible paper. Thesis." Dean Liu's turkey smile is very iconic, and the soft flesh in the slack throat is shaking, which makes people feel his pride.

Professor Cai chuckled twice, and said, "The second one can still be posted on Instagram, what about the third one?"

"As long as the function of the new channel is fascinating, S will not insist on it. For something like novelty, you can't set a standard for potassium channels and aspirin." Will re-enter the top journals because there are some new discoveries about him.

In the same way, potassium channels have various functions. If they are important functions, they will naturally have the opportunity to be listed in top journals.

Of course, the in-depth study of the function of potassium channels itself is beyond the scope of Yang Rui's papers, but this is the case in top journals, and citations are indispensable.

Professor Cai didn't think about the situation carefully, so he nodded involuntarily, and said, "If you put it this way, there is really a chance. No wonder so many laboratories participated."

"If everyone is competing for second place, and they hear that two or three well-known laboratories are participating in the research, they should give up."

"Yeah, it means that everyone has seen the new hot spot... Well, those who publish papers now should have retreated in spite of the difficulties. If there are dates or no dates, they will be published first. If they can be published, it means that foreign journals also love it. Be fashionable."

Dean Liu laughed out loud.

Professor Cai picked up a few well-known periodicals and read them. After a while, his expression became more serious, and he said, "Imperialism will never die."

"Ah?" Dean Liu didn't know whether he was joking or talking seriously.

Professor Cai snorted, without a smile on his face, but waved his hands without any anger, and said, "The authors repeated Yang Rui's experiment, but they couldn't find a suitable mutant gene, so they are complaining here."

"What are you complaining about?" Dean Liu put away his turkey smile. The thesis does not say every word, at least every word must be carefully considered. There is no paper that can make dry complaints.

Professor Cai curled his lips and said, "Isn't there no one who can repeat the experiment now? They won't let it go.

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

Scientific experiments must be repeatable. If there are any unshakable foundations for human civilization, this is it.

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

A mirage is a distortion of light, don't you believe it? You look up.

Ancient Family Remedies for Cancer? Give me a chestnut, give me another chestnut, give me another chestnut, thank you, please keep your arrest warrant.

Of course, repeating experiments takes time.

Haruko Obokata, a beautiful Japanese scientist who has been regarded as a standard case of thesis fraud, fell down on the problem that the experiment could not be repeated.

Prior to this, Haruko Obokata was highly praised in Japan. To put it bluntly, if her research becomes a reality, there is no guarantee that she will win the Nobel Prize, but it is not difficult to nominate once or twice. In terms of social inertia in Japan, In another 20 or 30 years, maybe Haruko Obokata will be nominated as Minister of Education, if she is interested in politics.

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

But before Obokata Haruko, every year someone fell for the same reason, like cutting leeks.

Professor Cai rethought Yang Rui's thesis, and said: "I haven't heard of the completely repeated experiment, but his thesis is very clear in logic, and I don't think there is a big problem."

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

Professor Cai's face was sullen, the previous good mood was gone.

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

Looking for mutant genes requires a certain amount of temperament, or in other words, if you do more, you will be able to do it naturally.

For example, the gene expression of the channel found in Yang Rui's paper is a 10-fold increase in electrical conductivity.

This expression is not easy to measure, and more importantly, the mutant gene must change the expression of this gene, so that the change can be found.

Generally speaking, the set of experiments designed by Yang Rui is a set of experiments that require time and funds. If enough time and funds are spent, it is very likely to produce results in the end. It is also because of this logic that many foreign laboratories are attracted to participate. They are not afraid of spending money and time, but they are afraid of the risk of getting nothing.

However, how long and how much money is enough, no one can say until the results of the experiment are produced.

So, will Yang Rui do the falsification of the thesis because of saving time or money?

Professor Cai didn't want to think this way, but it was not unprecedented for those talented and promising young people to suddenly make seemingly incomprehensible cheating.

The cruelty of scientific research makes young people in this field like soldiers charging towards the machine gun positions. Only a few lucky ones can rush across Long Beach, win awards, and then become officers. Those who are unlucky, or those who linger, will be eliminated in the end.

If time is tight, if funding is tight, researchers must make a dilemma.

Professor Cai shook his head when he thought of this, and said, "We still have to support Yang Rui, and don't think too much. There are so many people citing 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 Right. It’s only been more than a month now, so it’s not surprising that repeated experiments can’t be done. It must have been more than half a year for Yang Rui to do it.”

"It's true." Dean Liu touched his head with a smile: "I think too much."

"That's why I said, saying that imperialism will never die. Seeing that there are powerful papers and scholars coming out of our side, they will say strange things." Professor Cai said so, but he still couldn't help thinking. Overcast.

After a while, Professor Cai said: "Isn't there someone in our college who is working on this subject? You care about it, see what's going on, and see if there is anything that needs our support."

Dean Liu understood, "I'll ask tomorrow."

After a pause, Dean Liu asked again: "What about the citation award?"

"Let's put it away for a while..." Professor Cai hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'll go to Lao Tang's laboratory tomorrow and have a look before we talk about it."

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

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