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Chapter eight hundred and thirty sixth by the way

In an era when it was more difficult to obtain scientific research funds than to do scientific research, every scholar knew the importance of telling a good story.

Of course, most scholars do not have the opportunity to tell stories. The public is only interested in stories with the best scientific research results. If they cannot be top scholars in the industry, no matter how good the storytelling ability is, it will be in vain.

To be at the top of the industry and to be able to tell stories, the requirements are relatively high.

As for the biological circle, the so-called world-class scholars may be hundreds or thousands of people, while the so-called world-class scholars are probably only a few dozen scholars who can make world-class contributions. These people, including scholars who have made contributions but are now gradually moving away from the front line of scientific research.

Such a small number leads to scholars who can do scientific research not necessarily know how to tell stories, while scholars who can tell stories do not necessarily know how to do scientific research.

The former author of PCR, Muris, is a scholar who is good at telling stories. He is a typical anti-traditional elite. He made his own mental anesthetics during college and even developed new drugs for himself to take. After graduating from his Ph.D., he changed jobs many times and eventually entered the private sector. After completing PCR, he surfed all day long, waiting for various awards to fall on his head.

Muris was born with a talent for storytelling. His first paper on Nature was about cosmology. According to his words, it was pure fantasy and random fabrication that deceived him into his first doctoral degree.

It is difficult for future generations to comment on whether it is fantasy or made up, but in the eyes of ordinary people, such scholars are too down-to-earth.

Afterwards, Muris packed his inspiration for PCR with his girlfriend, express train and winding mountain road.

During the 1980s, when Sister was promoting PCR everywhere, Muris would say these things every time he gave a speech.

The public loves this kind of story to death.

Muris also lived a good life because of this, and achieved success in the eyes of ordinary people. When he wanted money, he would go to some organizations to give speeches. Whether it was school colleges or Wall Street, there was always a constant demand for Nobel Prize winners. Some wealthy private middle schools occasionally hoped to invite Nobel Prize winners, not to mention various organizations outside the United States. The price of a speech by Muris was once as high as 100,000 US dollars, and the invitation party was also responsible for high-level accommodation.

But in the biological circle, the one who tells the story the most is Muris.

In contrast, the two digits that have made the DNA double helix structure are not remembered if it weren't for the word double helix that has some meaning.

As for proteins and cells, I don't care.

On the contrary, the stories of cowpox and milking workers are widely spread around the world.

Yang Rui consciously learned the method of successful people, including the way of obtaining PCR inspiration, and he also took most of the mysterious Yun@nan, the Chinese highway with eighteen bends on the mountain road and PCR, which were packages made by Yang Rui for himself.

Nowadays, this method of packaging and storytelling is also an extremely successful one.

Of course, Muris became obscured because of this. Although he was good at telling stories, he was still a unruly liar, although he was still a mental anesthetic for himself, and although he was still completely different from the surf boy of scientific research apes, no one cared about his story without world-class results.

In the days to come, Muris can still surf, be a unruly liar, and still be a mental anesthetic. However, his life will no longer be so free. He will probably work in the private sector for longer and do scientific research for longer to satisfy his material and spiritual consumption. Unless one day, he can make world-class results and tell another beautiful story.

In Tobiles' eyes, Yang Rui is one of the rare geniuses who are good at telling stories and doing scientific research.

On the phone, Tobiles described his own views and thoughts in detail. With a strong recommendation, he finally made the swaying Dalbeco make a decision.

But his decision was completely beyond Tobiles' expectations.

"I will come to China as soon as possible." Dalbeco said: "Talk to Yang Rui face to face."

Tobiles was stunned for a long time and asked, "Are you going to come to China? What should I do if I lobby in Congress? And the National Institutes of Health..."

"The intervention of the National Institutes of Health is inevitable, and it's good that they have abundant reserves and resources." Dalbeco paused and said, "I want to see if Yang Rui and his laboratory can be considered abundant reserves and resources."

Tobiles understood it all at once and said stupidly: "Do you want to cooperate with Chinese scholars?"

"The human genome project is too big. This is originally an international cooperation project. The UK should be willing to participate. I am convinced by Japan. Therefore, no matter what, I will come to Asia and take a look at China's biological research level." Dalbeko's thinking is very clear.

Tobiles smiled bitterly: "Yang Rui's research level is world-class, China's general research level is still far from the international level. Moreover, China may not be able to provide enough funds to build a human genome plan."

The Human Genome Project is the three major plans of the natural science community. However, unlike the previous Manhattan Project and the Apollo Moon Landing Project, the Human Genome Project is a thorough global cooperation project, with participation from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and later the European Community, as well as Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the last China.

However, such a huge genome project actually follows a very simple cooperation model in terms of structure - whoever gives the money will be allocated, and the result will be public welfare.

This model is very similar to that of the United Nations, and its core is that participating countries must allocate proportional expenditures.

In other words, countries that cannot pay for money are not qualified to participate.

In this large plan of $3 billion, the basic 1% of the capital is $30 million. Not to mention China in 1985, China in 1995 was worried about money for a long time when discussing whether to join.

After all, this is a basic scientific project, and the direct benefits that can be obtained are very small. Only developed countries with abundant funds have resources to join. Of course, people have to pay for money, but compared with the latter, money is still a little rare, because there are too many biologists who want to join this program. It can be said that basically no biologist will refuse this job. Moreover, just like most programs, the United States and Europe have been able to provide a large number of elite scholars. They do not care whether other countries provide scientific research apes or scientific research Wangs.

Dalbeko has also been inviting Yang Rui to the United States because of this, but has never proposed cooperation with China.

Of course, this has not been approved by the US Congress, and it is also because there is only a little bit of ink in the eight characters, so there is no discussion of cooperation.

But after calm thinking, Dalbeko's thinking obviously changed, saying: "I think no scholar is isolated, especially in today's world. With the current academic development level, Yang Rui's success at least means that a quasi-world-class team has gathered around him. Of course, I have to see it myself before making a decision."

"Okay, I will make some preparations in China." Tobiles didn't know what to say.

But Dalbeco said clearly: "You need to know Yang Rui's team and learn more about China's top team."
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