Chapter 717

Yang Rui laughed twice and said, "I want to start two long-term projects and get support from the school."

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "the long-term project is simple..."

To put it bluntly, he suddenly asked, "how long is a long-term project?"

"Ten year plan, five years up, the first two years may not have much results, but the investment will not be too small, such a project, the foundation or something may not pass, get the help of the school, and set up a special project team, the personnel is neat." Yang Rui's eyes are very bright. What is the biggest wild hope of his life as an academic? The unlimited supply of funds without any control.

In order to provide unlimited funds, scholars dare to say that the ozone hole has wiped out mankind, global warming has wiped out mankind, superbacteria has wiped out mankind, supervolcanoes have wiped out mankind, gamma rays have wiped out mankind, and the development of extraterrestrial space is the only hope of mankind. How to frighten people and how to come? Take a closer look, Every industry can find more than a dozen reasons to cheat funds, as if they can solve problems by giving them money. Although science is great, it is not so great in the 21st century.

Yang Rui can struggle for two years in order to get close to the ultimate pursuit of this kind of scholar.

Just think about it. Communist society can't be so rich in material that scholars can do whatever they want. What if people want to explode the universe? Or multiverse ice cream?

It's relatively easy to pursue without control. Huarui laboratory, needless to say, is Yang Rui's own. As long as it's not defeated, he can do whatever he wants.

The supervision of ion channel laboratories is relatively more. The most troublesome thing is to keep producing results, take money from foundations or institutions, or even keep reporting. Later on, when the development reached the extreme, some scholars even said angrily: I don't want to use a bottle of ink and two pages of A4 paper to live.

However, there will only be more and more applications, not less and less.

This is a disadvantage of poor countries. European countries are rich and powerful, and long-term projects have become regular research. However, the lifestyle of old rich owners and long-term workers is doomed to be different.

As far as China's current poverty level is concerned, who can bear to study a project for five, eight or even ten years.

It is normal for scholars to fail to produce results in two years. For long-term workers, it is a matter of starvation.

The headmaster's confidence in Yang Rui is not enough for two years. He can't help hesitating and asking, "what project are you going to do?

"It's all about genes. One is long-term gene sequencing. I'm very interested in the human genome project proposed by Professor darbeco."

This is a relatively easy field to make achievements. The headmaster nodded and said, "yes, the school supports you every year... 2 million yuan. No matter what you do, the 2 million yuan will remain unchanged. If you make achievements, we will talk about it then."

If 30 years later, the president of Peking University will certainly disdain to use millions as a unit, but in 84, the fixed expenditure of two million a year, you have to bite your teeth to say.

Look at the face of the vice president who is in charge of finance, you can see how difficult it is.

"The second one is about cloning. It may take longer. I want to do something similar to nuclear transplantation." Yang Rui smiles shyly.

Nuclear transfer refers to the transfer of the nucleus. The cell is taken out from the developing embryo, and then the nucleus of the cell is transferred to another enucleated egg. This is the early idea of cloning technology, which was born in 1938.

In the 46 years from 1938 to 1984, Higgs and TJ King completed this idea with frog embryonic nucleus. Then John Gordon got better results. Then, irmenzer and hopey developed cloned mice with mouse embryonic nucleus, thus extending the nuclear transfer experiment to mammals. Finally, this year's stern vladerson, A sheep was bred from immature embryo nucleus of sheep.

In 1984, veradson's work was still very eye-catching. Professor Cai immediately thought of it and asked, "do you want to do mammalian nuclear breeding?"

Since sheep have been bred, are pigs, dogs, sheep, horses and cattle far away? This kind of opportunity to brush the top journals is our favorite. Professor Cai naturally guessed Yang Rui.

"It's a similar technology." Yang Rui certainly can't say that I want to clone Dolly. Cloned sheep mostly use somatic cells, which are different from embryonic cells in that embryonic cells are used to give birth to the next generation, but somatic cells are products that can be rubbed down from the bath towel after dozens of days.

From a scientific point of view, Dolly sheep cloning is absolutely amazing. If it wasn't for this, a technology proposed in 38 years would not have swept the world by 1997.

However, even if it's just nuclear technology, it's also very difficult. As a Danish, it's natural for Professor Cai to know that he has made world-wide achievements.This kind of achievement, has a general name in the biological circle, is called "expensive"!

The principal understood this and not only stepped back, saying: "the relationship between cloning research and gene sequencing is far away. At the same time, a gene sequencing project, another cloning project and the original ion channel project of ion channel laboratory will be too scattered?"

What he said is also very reasonable, let alone one more clone and one more gene sequencing, that is, the ion channel project. If we go deep into the project, billions of money will be like playing.

Gene sequencing, not to mention the fact that it has cost more than one trillion US dollars, has not yet been completed. It is the burning money of countries all over the world. If it were not for the fear of death of the rich, the financial strength of pharmaceutical companies, and the human genome project would not have been completed by 2030. Even so, the U.S. Court has approved the case of gene patent, so that pharmaceutical companies and research institutions can apply for the sequenced gene as a patent. It does not cost too much, and the court will not judge it like this.

But from Yang Rui's point of view, the long-term project is for in-depth research. Moreover, his own interests are more inclined to the research direction of Oppenheimer. Naturally, the larger the project, the wider the better.

After pondering for a moment, Yang Rui said: "I have some ideas about cloning, which I think are more valuable. I want to verify them. If the school can support them, we can take the conditions of gene sequencing as the benchmark. I think we can make valuable things."

"If it's just verification, maybe we can spend a separate sum first?" The vice principal in charge of finance is going to sweat.

"If the time is too short, I'm afraid the results will not be satisfactory, on the contrary, it will waste time."

"Or, it's too late to do it in the next fiscal year." The vice principal in charge of finance was in a deliberative tone.

"Of course, it's also in time. Long term projects will not take long." Dolly, the cloned sheep, won't appear until 1997, which is quite abundant. However, the cloning project is time-consuming. Sheep cloning also needs to go through the process of embryonic development. It takes a few months at a time. Yang Rui is not ready to operate the project himself. Because of this, he has to be lenient, prepare ahead of time and pull up the team.

The headmaster pondered.

If an ordinary student, or a professor at puniu level, says so, the headmaster will be photographed back.

The fixed investment of 2 million a year is not a small amount. If a common cow costs 2 million, an average of five cows for a major and 100 cows for a school, wouldn't it cost 200 million a year? That's the number of ordinary cattle. How much do you want to drive? What's more, it's a fixed investment. It's money to be given for doing nothing. What's done will naturally be added. How much will it cost?

Tsinghua was the most expensive school in 2014, spending 4.5 billion a year. But in 84, which Chinese school could spend 200 million on scientific research?

However, Yang Rui has gone beyond the normal stage.

After pondering for a long time, the headmaster decided to show his strong support for high-end scholars and gritted his teeth: "we don't have to wait for next year. Let's do it this year."

The vice principal in charge of Finance wailed: "principal, we really don't have enough funds this year..."

"Overcome difficulties..."

"Headmaster!"

"Think of a way..."

"Headmaster!"

"There is no way out of heaven..."

"Headmaster!"

"I believe..."

"Headmaster!" The vice principal in charge of finance is a rock fan.

"I have a suggestion." In all kinds of tangles, President Pang, who had not seen him for a long time, stood up, gave Yang Rui a friendly smile and said, "how about merging the existing embryo cell laboratory? They have good conditions. After joining the ion channel laboratory, they can form independent groups. As long as the school adds some funds, it can meet Yang Rui's requirements. "

President Pang was vice president Pang who supported Richard laboratory at that time. The failure of Richard laboratory made his plan of cooperation between famous Chinese and American universities aborted and suffered a lot. However, judging from his expression and speech at this time, it seems that he wanted to take the opportunity to reconcile with Yang Rui.

Yang Rui listened with a smile. He didn't believe it at all.

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