Chapter 1440

Domestic celebrations are no weaker than those in Sweden.

The Swedes held a huge dinner party, and the scale of the domestic banquet was even larger; Swedes play their own Symphonies for each Nobel laureate, and several domestic orchestras nearly break their heads in order to be named Nobel; The king of Sweden reserved five minutes for each Nobel laureate to chat, while Yang Rui got an afternoon to play.

As Yang Rui expected, the theme of the conversation was to select a new project for Yang Rui.

The international reputation brought by the Nobel Prize has not surprised Yang Rui to become a benchmark in Chinese scientific circles.

It's also a sad story.

The world's major developed countries win the Nobel prize every year, but the third world countries always need talents or rare opportunities to win the Nobel Prize.

At that time, in order to synthesize bovine insulin, China formed a huge scientific research team, and also carried out public relations without falling behind. It is said that even Premier Zhou came forward and failed to win.

As for Yuan Longping and other scholars of the older generation, limited to the domestic conditions, they always put more emphasis on application than academic research. Although they have a great reputation in China, they can not become national business cards.

A country needs business cards.

The post office even began to consider whether to issue a new set of stamps for Yang Rui.

The only thing that worries us is Yang Rui's follow-up research.

Unlike the Nobel Laureate of "lifelong achievement", Yang Rui has accumulated for a long time, but in terms of time, it is only a few years.

Such a short period of time is not enough to make investors feel at ease, whether they are private investors or "institutional" investors.

Compared with "famous scientists", the loss of national business card is even more unacceptable.

For example, Hwang Woo Suk, a former "national scientist" in South Korea, Keiko Kobo, a beautiful scientist in Japan, and leesenko of the Soviet Union have brought more than shame.

Yang Rui's youth naturally brings corresponding worries.

From the perspective of safety, it is a good thing to let Yang Rui participate in the human genome project.

If it was the management era of the Academy of Sciences, Yang Rui might really be sent to participate in the human genome project.

It's not that there is anything wrong with the human genome project. Yang Rui has always expressed his support for the project. However, there are two concepts: participation plan and hosting plan.

The human genome project is a truly international scientific research project. It's very easy for Yang Rui to stand out in the project, and he has already done it. However, if you want to host the project, it depends on how much money you bring.

Darbeko went back and forth to Japan for funding. With two Nobel prizes and the full support of the British government, Sanger, a British man, became the prince of human genome. If Yang Rui only took a person to participate in the project, it would be a laboratory project in the whole route, let alone play a key role, It's darbeco's face to have one thousandth of the workload.

Yang Rui's hard work for the Nobel Prize is not to do advanced experimental dogs.

It is Yang Rui's plan to do "sheep cloning" first.

This is a very important project, not only of great scientific significance, but also of great social, political and economic significance.

Naturally, his scale and academic value can not be compared with the human genome project, but his influence is no less than that of the human genome project.

Not many people have heard of cloning Dolly sheep, and even fewer do not know about cloning. The resulting film and television works are enough to let the most stupid idiots know these two words. Whether they understand them correctly or not is another matter.

The first big project after winning the Nobel Prize, like the first shot to be fired, should be clean and tidy.

87 The human genome project in 2010 is still in the state of fundraising and preliminary preparation. According to history, it will not be officially launched until 90.

Yang Rui doesn't want to be stuck in the mud for 20 years, and then be praised for his craftsmanship at the age of 40.

Do you really use biologists as cell assemblers?

"The cloning project is a big project that I think is most suitable for the Chinese scientific community. Huarui and ion channel laboratory have set up a cloning group, and they have done the Haidian genetic engineering laboratory for bovine embryo transfer. All the projects they have done can be regarded as the front-end projects of sheep cloning... "Yang Rui sits in front of Qiao Gong, with a relaxed tone and a steady posture."So the cloning project is the big project you proposed in Sweden?" Academician Zhu is sitting beside him. He is regarded as Qiao Gong's academic translator.

Yang Rui nodded and said: "in order to do cloning, embryo transfer is a pre project that must be overcome, and it can be regarded as a pre project that must be completed, because cloning sheep itself is to transfer embryos with changed nuclei to another one. We have the team with the highest success rate of embryo transfer in the world. It's not from the sky. It's because we have worked hard, studied and invested a lot of money. This advantage is about two years faster than that of the world's top laboratories. It is also one of the few areas with absolute advantages in China, which is very suitable for further development. "

The success rate of sheep cloning is very low, and the lowest part is the replacement of the nucleus. No one hopes to lose the embryos that are easy to pass the screening during the transfer.

It can be said that in the past few years, Yang Rui has not been separated from the world-class genetic engineering laboratory, but has been shortened.

In terms of the success rate of embryo transfer alone, the Haidian District genetic engineering laboratory under Yang Rui's hand is still far ahead.

"However, cloning will inevitably bring about related ethical problems." Academician Zhu continued to ask questions, so that Mr. Qiao could fully understand the situation.

Yang Rui said: "biology involves biology and human beings. It originally involves a lot of ethical issues. It is a double-edged sword, but we can't stop eating for choking. The development of animal cloning technology has been accumulated for half a century. Tong Dizhou, an early biologist in China, was one of the developers in this direction. Moreover, cloning of low-level organisms has appeared for a long time, but it didn't cause too many topics. "

After a pause, Yang Rui added: "it's time for me to do this project. In a few years, Americans, British or Japanese will do it. In fact, as far as I know, there are at least three laboratories in the United States studying cloning, and the slowest one is less than 10 years away from mammals. Do we have to rely on the Ministry of foreign affairs to condemn them ten years later? "

Academician Zhu and Duke Qiao could not help laughing.

"Cloning can bring more benefits than ethical problems. In my opinion, the ethical issue of cloning is something we have to face sooner or later. Therefore, the value lies in striving for its benefits. "

"Oh, tell me about it." Joe is fair.

"First, medical use. Mammal cloning is not a simple animal cloning, it represents the overall development of cloning technology. In medicine, if you want to clone cells or organs, you have to complete animal cloning first. Unless you cut off an important branch of medicine, the value of cloning in medicine will be higher and higher. "

Looking at academician Zhu and Duke Qiao, Yang Rui said, "second, the value of agriculture, the popularity of improved plants and livestock, at the present rate, is too low. The technology of embryo transfer can only solve the primary problems, and the cost is still very high, so it can't be compared with cloning technology at all. "

"Yes." Qiao Gong understood and nodded slightly.

To solve the problem of eating has always been a big problem for Chinese people.

"Third, cloning is one of the ultimate solutions to extinction. Species extinction is one of the greatest fears of contemporary human beings. We do not want to stay on the earth alone. However, the cost of protecting animals and plants is very high, and it is not completely under our control. However, if we master cloning technology, we will have one more way to deal with it. Especially for animals and plants with a very small population, the significance of cloning is immeasurable... "Yang Rui, from small to large, briefly described the cloning technology, and breathed a sigh of exhaustion.

Before Qiao Gong said anything, academician Zhu coughed and said, "Yang Rui, once you start your research, if you can't do it, you will be criticized by the public. Einstein was also blamed for the atomic bomb. "

"Of course, I know." Naturally, Yang Rui is clear. But that's the last thing he cares about.

At the beginning of completing the cloning of sheep, Wilmot was indeed subjected to a lot of slander, so that when he went to bed at night, he would be harassed by people on the phone, walking on the road, and even tracked and threatened by people, and the Research Institute was attacked by various environmental protection organizations in different ways.

However, will these problems be problems in China?

Extreme environmental groups attack biological research institutes in China? Doesn't that mean giving away the head?

Tracking threats is even more ridiculous. Those who can find their way will be completely lost in three days, and those who can turn themselves in and repatriate will be considered happy.

As for phone harassment? They have to make a phone call first.

After the initial hot spot, the cloned sheep brought a lot of praise.It's one thing whether cloning can be implemented or not. It's a great achievement to complete cloning. Even the most stupid people will gradually distinguish the two.

Compared with the pressure on the British, Yang Rui is obviously much more relaxed.

"What kind of support do you need?" Qiao Gong spoke slowly.

Yang Rui said quickly, "keep it secret. We need to increase personnel, spend a lot of money and cooperate with some units. "

"No problem." Qiao Gong didn't even need to ask for specific figures.

Academician Zhu couldn't help admiring the feeling of holding Shangfang's sword and asking for resources. Once he felt it, he couldn't forget it.

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