Chapter 389 Re-election
Hedong University.
The deep winter has not yet left, and the early spring has not yet bloomed. The campus that has just begun to welcome students is full of bleak scenery.
Under the flowing water of the small bridge that is most popular among students, there are only some dead branches and leaves that have not been swept away, embedded in the cracks of the stone slabs and trembling in the breeze.
It was so cold outdoors. Even so, there were still students wrapped in green military coats, raised their heads, and recited English in high tones.
On a small bridge that is more than ten meters long, there are seven or eight people reciting. Some people are leaning against the bridge pile to hide from the wind, some relying on the back to the back to keep warm, and a boy is actually riding on the bridge, pushing the biting wind and reading new concept English in a sharp voice.
"If you don't know, you think he wants to jump down and can't find a warmer place to recite English?" Yang Rui was wearing a cashmere sweater, a cashmere tweed coat, and a scarf wrapped around his neck. He still didn't feel warm. His physical fitness was much better than before, but the weather was much colder than in later generations. Now it is an era when cotton coats and trousers are standard.
Yao Yue covered her mouth and smiled, and then took a few breaths. Nuannuan's cheeks were already red from the cold and said, "That's a member of the Hanging Cone English Club. The meaning of taking the head and hanging the beam and pricking the thighs is that the conditions are difficult to learn English. Reading on the bridge is to let the cold wind blow and make your mind clear."
Yang Rui shook his head and said, "The conditions are difficult enough. Are you not afraid of a cold?"
"Not only are the conditions difficult, the performance of the members of the Xuanzhu English Club is also good, although they are not as good as everyone..." Yao Yue looked at Yang Rui with a smile, and then said: "Some of them have applied to study in the United States this year, and the number of applicants of the Xuanzhu English Club has increased by seven or eight times at once."
Yao Yue was in a very good mood. When Yang Rui took the initiative to find her, Yao Yue was so happy that she was about to jump up. As for what Yang Rui asked her to do, Yao Yue didn't care anymore and just cared about pulling him around the campus.
Yang Rui was not in a hurry, following Yao Yue's footsteps, quickly and quickly, left and right, and sometimes traveling to Hedong University, chatting casually.
As the only key university in Hedong Province, Hedong University is very good in terms of location and area. The campus is surrounded by mountains and rivers, covering a century-old giant tree and a thousand-year-old Confucius Temple. The buildings during the 1950s have a long history and the newly built stadium is majestic.
However, these advantages and conditions are not worth mentioning compared to Peking University. In terms of location and area, Peking University was the first-class university before the expansion of enrollment, and in terms of campus environment and long history, it was even more successful.
Long-term uneven resource allocation naturally results in class differences between schools.
When Yang Rui came to the Biology Department laboratory, this sense of difference became even stronger.
After more than half a year, the biology laboratory affiliated to Professor Cang had almost no change at all, exactly the same as when Yang Rui first came here.
The glass in the laboratory is still smooth and bright, the glassware in the laboratory is still smooth and bright, and the appearance of the instruments in the laboratory is still smooth and bright. However, there are no new instruments or new equipment here.
The feeling here gives Yang Rui the feeling that it is like a new factory that has been on display for more than ten years. It looks beautiful, but in fact it is out of date.
Biotechnology developed rapidly in the 1980s, and it can be said that it is changing with each passing day. When Yang Rui first came to Professor Cang's laboratory, he felt that it was similar to his simple laboratory. Half a year later, Yang Rui's laboratory has been replaced by a first-class domestic level, and Professor Cang's biological laboratory is still worth US$30,000.
A chemistry laboratory of $30,000 can still look a bit like it, while a 30,000-dollar biological laboratory of $30,000 can only be said to be rough.
Of course, as far as the domestic level in the 1980s was concerned, a 30,000 USD laboratory could barely be said to be a second-rate, but it would be too difficult for China's second-rate laboratory to produce internationally-level things. In terms of the contemporary level, Brazil's second-rate laboratory, Malaysia's second-rate laboratory, South Africa's second-rate laboratory, Norway's third-rate laboratory, Britain's third-rate laboratory, and the United States' fourth-rate laboratory... are all better than it.
Without excellent hardware conditions, it may be compensated by excellent software conditions. But for China in the 1980s, it would be great if it could not use textbook teaching that was 20 years behind the times. There were only a few researchers who could replace advanced instruments with intelligence, which naturally did not include Professor Cang of Hedong University.
Yang Rui met Professor Cang for the first time, and Chen Pinghui, director of Pingjiang Biology Research Institute, introduced it at the time. At that time, the West Jet factory had just started production. Yang Rui made a super-quality large crystal coenzyme Q10. Professor Cang failed to repeat the experiment and wanted to "discuss and exchanges" failed.
Yang Rui looked around for a week and secretly commented that, based on the current experimental conditions of Professor Cang's laboratory, it is estimated that repeated experiments will still be difficult to succeed.
Although the Westjet factory is a factory, it is also a factory with an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The basic equipment is much better than Professor Kuang's laboratory.
The technical conditions of the factory are better than those of the laboratory, which is also a very sad thing.
Yang Rui glanced at Yao Yue and thought to himself: It's time to pull her out of here as soon as possible.
Yao Yue thought Yang Rui was asking himself with his eyes, and smiled and said, "Professor Cang will be here soon. Some time ago, he has been reading papers on potassium ion channels. I guess he has a lot to talk to you."
Yang Rui was silenced: "I'm not here to chat with him. Besides, when I met him last time, wasn't he doing the repeated experiment of Coenzyme Q10? Later, when you helped me with plant extraction to produce Coenzyme Q10, Professor Cang seemed to be very interested."
"Because I can't apply for a patent after I do it, I won't do it anymore." Yao Yue chuckled: "I don't know who it is, so I registered all the patents related to Coenzyme Q10. In the past, Professor Cang would do some European and American patent experiments repeatedly, and then apply for patents in China, and then apply for funds. Under normal circumstances, European and American patent experiments would not apply for patents in China. As a result, Coenzyme Q10 is an exception. Professor Cang spent thousands of dollars in vain and couldn't straighten his waist so much that he felt distressed that he couldn't stand up. How could he be interested again?"
"Does he think no one has applied for the patent for the potassium ion channel?" Yang Rui laughed.
Yao Yue shook his head and said, "The potassium ion channel is an academic paper. Professor Cang just wanted to publish a heavyweight paper, so he studied it carefully..."
After pausing, Yao Yue covered her mouth and whispered: "I only tell you one person. Professor Cang studied the paper carefully after translating it into Chinese."
Yang Rui was puzzled and asked: "Why do you need to translate it into Chinese?"
"Because Professor Cang believes that as a Chinese, you must have some things that are difficult to express clearly when you publish an English paper. Therefore, he reversely translated your paper, hoping to guess the part you did not express clearly, and then..."
"Then?"
"Then it's a good article." Yao Yue exhaled like orchid, her cheeks were slightly red.
Yang Rui stared at her for a while before saying, "That is, Professor Cang wants to find out what was not explained clearly in my paper and publish it into his own paper? And the way to find out what was not explained clearly is to translate the English version of my paper into the Chinese version?"
"Yes."
"He never thought that I might write papers directly in English?" Postgraduates in later generations had to come into contact with such training. Postgraduates who could not write papers directly in English when they reached the second year of graduate school are all waste among graduate students.
Yao Yue smiled and said, "He taught us to write papers, and they always write Chinese first and then translate them into English. How could they think of those?"
"Then you didn't tell him?"
Yao Yue blinked and said with a smile: "I don't think he believes it anyway, so it's better not to say it."
Yang Rui was stunned for a moment and laughed in an instant.
Yao Yue was obviously dissatisfied with Professor Cang's "research" method of reverse translation, and deliberately knew the information and let Professor Cang waste his time.
Yang Rui smiled and sighed, "Don't waste your time. If the experiment is not easy to do, just look at the basics of the thesis."
"Yeah, I'm reading the book you sent me."
Yang Rui nodded and said, "After reading those big books, there will be no problem with the grammatical style of the paper."
Strictly speaking, when Yang Rui was a graduate student, he could not finish reading a large biology monograph. However, there were already many professional translations at that time, and it was incomparable to the current environment.
In 1984, universities had just resumed teaching work, such as mathematics and literature, and could still use the past things in conservatively. Anyway, college students have been in the four years and have not yet had to be exposed to cutting-edge academics. But for other rapidly developing subjects, Chinese translations are too outdated.
It takes at least thousands of hours to translate a large biology monograph. You still have to be a translator with good biology level to translate it relatively accurately.
But as far as the current speed of biology development is concerned, a large biology monograph has not been translated yet, and new things have come out.
Although basic biology is still basic biology, it is unlikely to complete the entire study of biology in the native language like later generations.
Yang Rui took the opportunity to ask Yao Yue a few questions, and Yao Yue was also very adapted to this communication method, which made her easily think of the scene when she was an assistant to Yang Rui.
The beautiful memories were aborted when Professor Kurakuen came back.
"Yang Rui is here." Professor Cang greeted him with a smile, stroked his beard and greeted him. His attitude was very different from the first time he met.
Yang Rui suddenly felt a little moved. When he first met, he was a new researcher who published a paper in "Biochemical System Ecology". Although he had cooperation with Jielikang, in terms of academic terms, he really didn't have much to come up with, that is, he was just a little younger.
But in the final analysis, it is not worthy of Professor Kuang's different view of publishing several SCI entry-level papers at the age of less than 20.
However, this time, Yang Rui is already a new academic who wrote the paper on "JMC".
SCI impact factor 4.0 can be said to be a hurdle in the research community of any country. Without long-term accumulation or excellent talent, such papers are not easy to publish.
Professor Kuang did not get this standard.
He is 52 years old this year, and his great time has been wasted in non-academic fields. It is not easy to keep up with the fast-paced academic life, let alone publish high-end papers.
Of course, his papers published in national journals in China are very young, which is also the basis for his promotion to seniority. However, when he was in the same room with Yang Rui, Professor Cang was still short of breath.
After all, not long ago, Professor Cang wanted to study Yang Rui's loopholes and add some glory to himself.
Yang Rui said hello, but no longer had a polite interest and said directly: "Professor Cang, I have a reluctant request. I want to invite Yao Yue to join my team and be my experimental assistant."
"team?"
"I have a team at Peking University who is working and doing experiments related to potassium channel. I want to invite Yao Yue to join."
"Doing experiments related to potassium channel?" Professor Kuang could no longer help but look surprised.
"Maybe it depends on the team's needs." Yang Rui was perfunctory.
Professor Cang pond pondered for no reason.
Just when Yao Yue was starting to get nervous, Professor Cang said, "Yao Yue is still in the learning stage and can't do anything even if you join your team. Why don't I choose a few more people for you..."
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Chapter completed!