No one repeated Yang Rui’s paper on potassium channels, which has always been the thorn in Professor Cai’s heart.

Yang Rui is too young, and CELL's temptation is too great. On the long and lonely mountain road of scientific research, there are too many people who cannot endure hardships or temptations. No one can guarantee that the fraud of papers will not happen.

Perhaps it is not a comprehensive fraud - this kind of fraud is also easy to identify. The most hidden danger is the truth in big things and the fraud in small things.

Any pioneering paper, even if it is just a small paper, may have hundreds of key points, some of which are even too small to ordinary people imagine. For example, should the small box containing the experimental object in the instrument have flat bottom or round bottom? The small ones cannot be smaller than the difference, but the result will be very different.

If the project cannot break through key points for a long time, or there are lack of funds, the temptation of fraud will be greatly enhanced.

Yang Rui's paper on potassium channel is designed with clear and logical design, which is an advantage, but has he broken all the key points in half a year? No one knows.

Professor Cai is a scholar. He uses the words that young men like, and is a scientist. Scientists are scientific and rational, and do not easily act emotionally.

The only way to prove Yang Rui is to repeat the experiment.

The better the repeated experiments, the more repeated experiments, is a stronger proof than the paper itself.

The repeated experiments of the potassium channel did make Professor Cai wait for a long time.

Of course, in terms of absolute time, it is not long. If it is non-hot papers, sometimes there are no repeated experiments at all. Even if there are, it is not surprising that it will delay for several years.

Yang Rui's paper is extremely novel, so people are rushing to do repeated experiments, but when this thing kills time, it is also a blunt knife to cut the flesh, which is extremely slow.

It can be done now, and Yang Rui was also surprised and asked: "Has it been published? Where?"

"It's still a 17-page long article published in "CELL"," Professor Cai smiled and added: "It can only be basically the same as yours in CELL."

Professor Cai laughed as he spoke.

Someone had been listening to their conversation around, but someone had already come over unconsciously to congratulate Yang Rui: "The repeated experiments have been published in CELL, and you will definitely be able to enter CELL in the next paper."

"Thank you." Yang Rui couldn't argue with them about privacy or other things.

In the 1980s, people basically had this concept. You quarreled in the bedroom, someone used a glass to stick to the wall and eavesdropped on it. The next morning, he even started a united front with you: Your wife said something wrong last night.

Yang Rui still faced Professor Cai and asked: "You said you can only post it on CELL, and the designs are similar..."

"The basic experimental designs are consistent, but the gene performance they found is different from yours, so I said that they can only publish it on CELL, and CNS also has competition."

The editors of Nature and Science are unwilling to publish non-original papers published by CELL, which are very natural and scientific.

Speaking of which, the three top journals are all very arrogant, or in other words, most top journals are very arrogant because there are too many submissions and too much choice, and there will be a tendency to be perfectionist.

Therefore, being rejected by CNS may not necessarily be due to the bad paper, but perhaps it is just the dignity of the journal.

Potassium channel is a hot topic in the biological world. If there is any change or any important conclusion is found, Nature and Science will probably not stick to their own opinions, but papers with the same design can basically be listed on CELL, after all, they are the aforementioned papers published by their own home.

Yang Rui had no experience in publishing top journals before, but after thinking about it, he understood and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Does foreigners also love face?"

"Who doesn't love face? But you really won the face for us in the biology department and Peking University." Professor Cai was in a good mood and was completely unswerving to praise him.

"Is there a reward?" I heard that there were repetitive papers, although it was confirmed that this day would be the first time, Yang Rui suddenly felt less pressure.

Professor Cai laughed, but said, "The benefits Coca-Cola has not given you enough?"

"It took tens of thousands of yuan to spend." Yang Rui did not hide it, but just looked like he had earned from labor.

"The school should indeed consider giving you a reward." Professor Cai was not talking about the biology department, but the school.

Yang Rui couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect Professor Cai to be so easy to talk to.

A few hours later, after seeing the latest article in "CELL", Yang Rui understood why.

The one who performed the potassium channel repeated experiment was actually Hopkins University.

If Haval University is the biggest brother in the field of education, Hopkins University is the biggest brother in the field of research.

As the first research university in the United States, Hopkins University has been the university with the largest research funding in the United States for 33 consecutive years. Naturally, its output is also amazing. Dozens of Nobel Prize winners only represent its cutting-edge level. More than 3,000 faculty and staff aiming to move forward are the most terrifying things.

To be honest, just a Hopkins University has a research strength in the 1980s, which exceeded all the research strength of a third world country. For example, Malaysia in the 1980s, the level of scientists at its National Academy of Sciences is not as good as that of a second-tier professor at Hopkins University. Its research funds, paper output, patent applications, awards, etc. are also inferior to Hopkins University.

If it is said that among the people, many people may not know or care about the existence of Hopkins University, but in the field of research, especially in the strong research fields of Hopkins University, such as medicine, health and biology, countless people are paying attention to its every move.

A professor at Hopkins University repeated Yang Rui's paper and published it in "CELL". This news is no less than a prize of great success.

"Our rewards should be fulfilled." Professor Cai was very energetic at the school-level meeting.

This semester is definitely one semester in the Department of Biology.

The leaders of other departments had nothing to say. Hopkins University admitted Yang Rui's paper, and they had no sufficient reason to stop Professor Cai from attacking.

After taking the opportunity to show off a few words and say a few more gossips, Professor Cai coughed and said, "I have a suggestion, please discuss it."

"Students in the Biology Department have made their own decisions."

"We biology, we are not able to make a decision by ourselves." Professor Cai said with a smile: "I used to decide to give Yang Rui a separate independent laboratory. I have been dragging it like this, and now I should be fulfilled."

"School-level laboratory? Is it necessary?" The Department of Physics has always consumed resources and is also quite active in competing for resources.

Professor Cai said seriously: "It is necessary. Yang Rui's scientific research team is now hanging under the Tang Concentration Laboratory. If someone goes to the laboratory building, you can see that under the Lao Tang's laboratory brand, there are now brands of the University of Tokyo in Japan and the Stanford University cooperative laboratory in the United States. The brand of our school-level laboratory is even better than the brands of Tokyo and Stanford University? I don't think so."

In the past, Professor Cai did not dare to fight for this, he was waiting for feedback from Yang Rui's paper.

This has always been the case in the academic community, from the Nobel Prize to the evaluation of professional titles, everyone has the habit of waiting for proof.

Even if the proof is waiting, not everyone can get rewards.

It was Yang Rui who published a top journal that received additional attention.

The principal thought for a moment and said, "Does school-level laboratories need to increase their allocations?"

Professor Cai said: "Yes, it can be 180,000 yuan a year."

200,000 yuan was too exciting, so he reduced 20,000 yuan. This money was the basic money that he had to pay every year. The so-called school-level laboratories were to pay the school. If they were upgraded and turned into provincial laboratories, the savings would be more money, but the school's money would generally not be less. If it was a ministerial laboratory, which ministries and commissions would pay for it. If they went to a national laboratories, such as Tang Ji now applied for, the central government would have to pay more than one million yuan each year, and it would increase year by year, and the school's support would not be less.

Universities and scientific research are such a giant beast that never stops. It can be said that this is an industry that is not enough to give much money.

The principal said without comment: "There is not much left for this year's construction budget."

Professor Cai smiled and said, "We are planning to renovate an old warehouse. In addition, we can use some funds to accumulate. We can get it in total and give it another 200,000 to 300,000 yuan in the school."

This is a necessary expenditure for a newly opened laboratory, but it is definitely an additional expenditure. The director of the Department of Physics heard it anxiously and said, "Your Biology Department wants to do the laboratory, so you can do it. If the school pays it, you should wait for the end of this fiscal year and do it next year!"

He started and someone immediately followed him: "It's better to put up the laboratory frame first, and wait until the review is over next year, we will save it lightly before grading. At that time, the school level will be at the school level and the provincial level will be at the provincial level."

"That won't work, if you don't have a grade, how can you determine the frame of the laboratory?" Professor Cai did not give him a chance to make trouble.

In China, level is a very important identification code, just like a military rank in the army. Level may not be 100% accurate, but its accuracy must be more than 50%.

Although school-level laboratories are very low-level laboratories, their significance is different, especially Peking University's school-level laboratories. They can fool a lot of people when taken out. The conditions for basic equipment and other conditions can also be guaranteed. If they are done well, they can also move along provincial and ministerial laboratories, core laboratories, national laboratories, etc.

Without this "school-level" prefix, this independent laboratory will not be much different from a laboratory in a city, county, or middle school, and it will not even be qualified to evaluate advanced laboratories.

In other words, whether there is a school-level prefix means whether the laboratory has growth potential.

The principal remained silent.

Seeing this, someone else hurriedly said, "The reward is the reward, but Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, and there is no staffing. What's the matter with him asking him to chair a school-level laboratory independently? Maybe the above will also reject it."

"You said Yang Rui is not a teacher in our school, but he doesn't think so." Professor Cai wouldn't have prepared a killer move, he wouldn't be full of confidence.

As he spoke, Professor Cai opened his briefcase and said, "As for Hopkins University, the research team that repeatedly conducted the potassium channel experiment, sent a special letter to praise Peking University and Yang Rui. I copied a few copies to show you."

What he took out was a thick stack of dozens of portions, which made people smell a strong show-off.

It's really worth showing off.

Because this is a text message full of positive energy and full of praise.

A total of four people from the Hopkins University research team said good things after explaining their original intention of repeating the experiment.

The purely handwritten letter of praise, hundreds of words, is full of good words, and is also admirable.

They praised the logic and exquisiteness of the experiment designed by Yang Rui, calling it "an exquisite experiment that can be compared with Cavendish twist scales"; they also praised Yang Rui's experiment for its rigor and fault tolerance, claiming that they had obtained similar or even the same results many times. While complaining that it "interfered with our experiments", they were also glad that Yang Rui's laboratory staff was not many, otherwise "it would make our experiments meaningless." Finally, the corresponding author of the paper, Wolleston, a tenured professor at Hopkins University, praised Peking University as "a first-class university that has cultivated first-class scholars"!

Professor Cai felt that his vanity was satisfied to the greatest extent. When looking at the expressions of other people, everything that understands them will probably be the same. If you can't understand them, you have to look at other people's expressions as if you pretend to be satisfied.

The thank you letter from Johns Hopkins University in the United States is no better recognition for the gentlemen at Peking University.

The principal also shook his head and saw it. Seeing the way his eyes were rotating, he obviously looked at it more than once.

"Yang Rui's experiment is very difficult." After the principal was satisfied, he began to explore the story behind the thank you letter.

Professor Cai smiled and said, "It's very difficult. The research team at Hopkins University should have designed a new method. As a result, the new method encountered too many problems. In order to catch up with the progress and compete for the second place, they finally had to fully adopt Yang Rui's plan."

Sudden exclaims and chuckles sounded at the same time.
Chapter completed!