Chapter 857

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

Of course, most scholars don't have the opportunity to tell stories. The public is only interested in the stories of one or two scientific research achievements. If they can't be the top scholars in the industry, no matter how good their storytelling ability is, it's in vain.

To be the top in the industry and be able to tell stories, the requirement is relatively high.

In the biological circle, the so-called world-class scholars may be hundreds or thousands of people, while the so-called world-class scholars, the scholars who can make world-class contributions, I'm afraid there are only dozens of people, including those who have made contributions and are now gradually away from the front line of scientific research.

Such a small number leads to the fact that scholars who can do scientific research may not be able to tell stories, while those who can tell stories may not be able to do scientific research.

Muris, the former author of PCR, is a scholar who is good at telling stories. He is a typical anti traditional elite. He made his own mental anesthetics in college, and even developed new drugs for his own use. After his doctoral degree, he changed jobs many times, and finally entered the private sector. After completing PCR, he surfed all day, waiting for various awards to fall on his head.

Mullis was born with the gift of storytelling. His first paper in nature was about cosmology. According to him, it was pure fantasy and fabrication, which deceived him into his first PhD.

It's hard for posterity to judge whether it's fantasy or fiction, but in the eyes of ordinary people, such scholars are too grounded.

After that, muris packaged his inspiration for PCR with his girlfriend, express and mountain road.

In the 1980s, when west company publicized PCR everywhere, muris would say these things in every speech.

The public loves this kind of story.

When he wants money, he will go to some organizations to give lectures. Whether it's schools, colleges or wall street, there is an endless demand for Nobel laureates. Some rich private schools occasionally want to invite Nobel laureates, Not to mention all kinds of organizations outside the United States, the price of a speech by muris was as high as $100000, and the inviting party was also responsible for high-level accommodation.

But in the biological world, the best storyteller is muris.

In contrast, if it wasn't for the meaning of the word "double helix", the two people who made the DNA double helix structure couldn't remember.

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

On the contrary, the story of cowpox and milkman is widely spread all over the world.

Yang Rui's conscious methods of learning from successful learners, including PCR's way of getting inspiration, are also taken over by him. The mysterious cloud @ south, the Chinese highway with eighteen bends of mountain road and PCR are the packaging Yang Rui has made for himself.

Now it seems that this kind of packaging and storytelling is also an extraordinary success.

Of course, Mullis is also unknown because of this. Although he is good at telling stories, he is still a dissolute libertine, although he is still making mental anesthetics for himself, and although he is still quite different from the surfing boy who studies apes, no one cares about his story without making world-class achievements.

In the future, muris can still surf, be a dissolute prodigal, and be a mental anesthetic. However, his life will not be as natural and unrestrained any more. It is estimated that he will have to work in the private sector for a longer time and do more scientific research to meet his own material and spiritual consumption. Unless one day, he can make world-class achievements and tell a beautiful story.

In tobers' eyes, Yang Rui is a rare genius who is good at both storytelling and scientific research.

On the phone, tobers described in detail what he saw and thought, and finally let the wavering darbeko make a decision.

His decision, however, was totally unexpected.

"I'll come to China as soon as possible." "Talk to Yang Rui face to face," darbeko said

Tobers was stunned for a long time and asked, "are you coming to China? What about lobbying in Congress? And the National Institutes of health... "

"The intervention of the National Institutes of health is inevitable. It's good that they have abundant reserves and resources." Darbeco stopped for a moment and said, "I want to see if Yang Rui and his laboratory are rich in reserves and resources."

Tobias understood all of a sudden and said foolishly, "do you want to cooperate with Chinese scholars?"

"The human genome project is too huge. It is an international cooperation project. The UK should be willing to participate in it. I am persuading Japan. Therefore, I am going to Asia anyway. By the way, let's see the level of biological research in China." Darbeko's mind is clear.Tobers wry smile: "Yang Rui's research level is world-class, China's general research level is far from the international level. Moreover, I am afraid that China will not be able to spend enough money on the human genome project. "

The human genome project is one of the three major projects in the natural science community. However, unlike the previous Manhattan Project and the Apollo moon landing project, the human genome project is a thorough worldwide cooperation project, with the participation of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, the European community, Denmark, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and finally China.

However, the construction of such a huge genome project actually follows a very simple cooperation model - who gives money, who distributes it, and the result is public welfare.

This model is very similar to that of the United Nations. The core of this model is that the participating countries should allocate their expenditures in proportion.

In other words, countries that can't afford to pay are not eligible to participate.

In this $3 billion plan, 1% of the basic capital is $30 million. Let alone China in 1985, China in 1995 had a long time to worry about money when discussing whether to join or not.

After all, this is a basic science project, and the direct benefits are very small. Only the developed countries with abundant funds have the resources to join. Of course, if you give money, you have to give people, but compared with the latter, the money is still a little bit hard, because there are too many biologists who want to join the program. It can be said that almost no biologist will refuse the work. Moreover, like most programs, the United States and Europe have been able to provide a large number of elite scholars. They don't care whether other countries provide scientific research or not.

For this reason, darbeko has always invited Yang Rui to the United States and never proposed cooperation with China.

Of course, it has not yet been approved by the U.S. Congress at this time, and there is no cooperation.

However, after calm thinking, darbeco's thinking has obviously changed, saying: "I don't think any scholar is isolated, especially in today's world. With the current level of academic development, Yang Rui's success at least means that a quasi world-class team has gathered around him. Of course, I have to see for myself before I decide."

"OK, I'll make some preparations in China." Tobias didn't know what to say.

Darbeko is very clear: "you need to know Yang Rui's team, more about China's top team."