As far as Zheng Jianguo knows, there are many classifications of papers, and because they involve different fields and disciplines, the requirements for writing papers will be very different, and their functions will naturally be different.

From the field of study, it can be divided into social science papers and natural science papers, and from the research method, it can be divided into descriptive papers, applied papers and review papers.

Of course, in Zheng Jianguo's view, there are only two kinds of papers, that is, top journals and ordinary journals, that is, they are classified according to the value of the papers, after all, although he has served as a reviewer for two of the three major American medical journals of the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association, he has only been on the top "Science" once, and he still went up with Professor Fisher.

In fact, Zheng Jianguo is most interested in "Science", and the era of "Nature" and the unfamous "Cell" has not yet arrived, the former has a long history and was founded in 1869, and has a pure bloodline as its founder.

Although Nature has been the official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since its creation more than 100 years ago, Edison's status as a businessman did not spread his influence to Europe for a long time, until the latter looted most of the world's talents, technology and funds in World War II, which allowed the latter to go abroad.

As for Cell, which has only been around for more than five years, it is still a magazine that has not attracted much attention, and even the editor's office is located in a corner of the MIT Press, with dim lights in the corridor in broad daylight, and a large note pasted on the mottled door with the words: "Cell Journal Editorial Office." ”

A faint musty smell rushed into his nostrils, and when Zheng Jianguo, who was frowning, wanted to raise his hand and knock on the door, the two closed wooden doors were opened, and a man with messy hair and a gray coat looked stunned, and opened his mouth in a slightly nasal but clear and full tone: "Sir, this is the editorial department of Cell Magazine——"

"Well, hello, I'm Zheng Jianguo, I want to find Mr. Valentin Levin, is he there?"

Zheng Jianguo is wearing more casually today, instead of yesterday's three-piece fishbone pattern suit and big leather shoes, but his hair still has a big back, and after finishing speaking, he saw the man in front of him stunned, and suddenly a burst of red appeared on his white face, and he quickly took off the leather gloves on his hands with a smile and leaned out: "Ah, Zheng, I'm sorry, I'm Mr. Levin's assistant Leon, fast forward, Mr. Levin is still inside-"

When Leon and Zheng Jianguo shook hands and spoke, they had already turned sideways and pushed open the door behind them, and the latter also saw a large office of two hundred square meters, and at this time, as Leon's voice spread, many people on the table looked up and probed their heads, and he also looked inside with these vague eyes: "I didn't disturb your office-"

"No, no, I'd be glad you could come over Mr. Levin, I'm sorry we don't have a reception room in poor conditions, let's go, I'll take you to his office-"

Leon said and took off his coat and introduced it in his hand, and then saw Zheng Jianguo smile and said: "In my opinion, entrepreneurship is similar to doing research, after choosing a field, take the direction to apply for funds, and entrepreneurship is to use the project to find investors, and then face the collision of ideas between the laboratory director and investors——"

"Oh, oh!"

Leon obviously didn't expect Zheng Jianguo to say such a thing, and he glanced at his side face in amazement, and he had already arrived in front of the editor-in-chief's office at this time, but before he could open the door, someone pushed the door open, Valentin Levin looked at Zheng Jianguo at the door, and immediately showed a bright smile: "Oh, Zheng, why are you here, welcome to come, Leon, please pour a cup of coffee, thank you-"

"I went to Detona Beach, Florida the day before yesterday, and I came back yesterday to hear Levine's message. ”

Zheng Jianguo watched Leon leave and entered the so-called editor-in-chief's office and said, Valentin Levin introduced the two people inside after closing the door: "This is Igor Anglis, the editor-in-chief of our magazine, and Abraham Lansdoor, the editor-in-chief of our magazine, and it was my assistant Leon Caudle who brought you in just now, hey, this is Dr. Zheng Jianguo - Zheng, I heard that you passed STEP 2?"

"Yes, Levin, I was lucky this time, I got an A, and I only got a B+ last time——"

The detective shook hands with Eagle Anglis and editor Abraham Lansdowne, and after Zheng Jianguo had spoken, Levin next to him had already shouted: "Oh, Zheng, you are amazing, you are the most powerful of all the people I have ever met - 18-year-old MD! Oh, what are you going to that meeting? Sit down." ”

"Thank you, yes, for the exchange organized by the Cancer Society. ”

Zheng Jianguo smiled at Eagle Angelis and editor Abraham Lansdowne and sat on the sofa without a cover, then turned his head to look at Valentin Levine, who was sitting next to him, and said with a smile: "Didn't I come back yesterday and heard Levin's message, it just so happened that I also made a speech at the meeting, you can see if you can publish it." ”

"Zheng, your article must be fine—"

Levin smiled and took the envelope from Zheng Jianguo's hand and opened it, the reason why he knew that this product had passed the STEP2 exam was because he was the most authoritative reviewer of the journal "Cell", and he was not one of them.

From mid-1974 to 1980, Cell was created for more than five years, and in those five years, Levin had made every effort to invite industry experts he could reach.

However, in view of the fact that the establishment of "Cell" is too short, it can be said that there are two or three big cats and no kittens over the years, so he has no choice but to lower the selection criteria for papers, which is contrary to his original intention of creating "Cell"——

The level of published papers directly determines the level of the journal in the field, but in the face of the threat of survival, Levin can only try his best to find the general in the lame man, until he hears that the scholar from the far east has chosen Harvard Medical School.

Levin had been in contact with a lot of Chinese in Chinatown, so he knew that the top student should not have high emotional intelligence, otherwise he would not have made a reversal of his choice of Harvard Medical School after agreeing to the invitation of Mayo in Mecca.

After all, the Mayo Clinic has the title of medical Mecca in the United States, and if you offend such a powerful medical group, any normal medical student knows what will happen - but unfortunately, before he can contact him, an atomic graphite layer appears.

Levin no longer dared to underestimate this Oriental scholar who seemed to have "luck" against the sky, but threw away all his plans and plans to face it directly, but he didn't expect that this person's character was not as introverted and shy as other Chinese, just as he was as calm and wise as he faced reporters and cameras-

It wasn't until yesterday morning that he heard the news of his STEP2 exam, and Levin knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and he got his Harvard Medical School diploma in less than two years, but he hadn't published any articles in Cell.

The discovery of Helicobacter in 1978 shocked gastroenterologists all over the world!

In 1979, the discovery of atomic-scale graphite layers shook the thermodynamic laws of solid state physics!

In 1980, he became the youngest graduate of Harvard Medical School, so he should be famous again, right?

The aura of the scholar is still haunting Zheng Jianguo's brain-

In just a short period of time, Levin judged that Zheng Jianguo's graduation this time would have a great chance of becoming famous all over the world again, and if he could publish a paper on "Cell" at this time, even if it was just a review-level article, it would definitely bring an unimaginable improvement to "Cell" - he only knew such a Nobel Prize candidate.

Smiling and opening the not too thick envelope, Valentin Levin's eyes flashed a few strange wisps, just from his experience in opening letters over the years, the moment he opened such a thin envelope, he knew that there were only two or even one letter paper inside.

Then it can't be a paper, this thing really wrote a review for himself?

With a faint thought, Levin couldn't help but glance at Eagles Angelis, who was full of curiosity next to him, and then took out a piece of stationery in the envelope, and then looked down at the title, and his expression was stunned: "A turning point in cancer research - the analysis of the human genome?!"

"Zheng, come for coffee—"

When Valentin Levin read the letter, Leon, who went out, entered the editor-in-chief's room with a pot of coffee and a few cups, and poured the cup in front of several people without seeing it, and beckoned Zheng Jianguo to drink, and the latter also smiled and picked up the cup and said, "Thank you, Leon!"

After thanking him, Zheng Jianguo also turned his head to look at Levin who was reading the letter next to him: "Yes, this is my speech at the cancer conference, one of the purposes of cancer research is to use modern scientific methods and technologies to confirm the pathological mechanism of cancer, such as in vitro culture of cancer cells and virus infection research, and the study of tissues in various parts is carried out almost simultaneously-

However, in my opinion, these research experiments on cancer cells and viral infections based on in vitro culture are interfered by too many uncertain external factors, after all, the occurrence and process of carcinogenesis in the human body cannot be seen, and the research based on in vitro cannot be applied to human tissues.

In my country, there is an idiom to describe this kind of operation called the blind man touching the elephant and peeping at the leopard in the tube, the invisible person touching the elephant's leg will say that the elephant is a pillar, and the person who touches the elephant's trunk will say that it is a tube, and the person who touches the elephant's ear will say that it is a puff fan, and the person who peeps at the leopard in the tube is even more different-

I think that the changes in cancerous tissues are the consequences of their own tissue lesions, which is very different from the current mainstream tumor virology, of course, out of respect for the authority of statistics, I think this is not absolute, after all, the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer in the smoking population is dozens of times that of the non-smoking group——"

Zheng Jianguo knows much more about the state of cancer in the future than anyone here, and of course he knows better that the prosperity of the discipline of molecular biology in the next 30 years will push "Cell" to a position comparable to "Science" and "Nature", and all this starts from the continuous understanding and understanding of human genes by human beings:" So, I think that the current research on cancer is a bit fragmented, and it is completely possible to change the direction of research and analyze the sequence of the human genome first, so as to achieve the purpose of understanding cancer——"

"Yes, only understanding can face-"

After reading the summary in his hand word by word, Valentin Levin raised his head excitedly, looked at Zheng Jianguo, who was drinking coffee, and quickly said with curiosity: "That's what you talked about at the conference?"

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about at the conference, it's just that their meeting won't end today, which means that the content of my speech hasn't been written yet, and then I got a call from you, and now the conference hasn't remembered it-"

Zheng Jianguo nodded with a smile, of course he knew Valentin Levin's concerns, although the Cancer Society is not an official organization, but considering that the deans and the Director-General of the WHO were present, it was natural to compile the speeches at the meeting into a book and publish it.

Now before the phone reaches him, he hands it over to Levin to publish, and when the other party knows about it, he can only stare dryly - if you don't say hello in advance, I will find someone to send it myself, you can't blame me, right?

Of course, Zheng Jianguo's biggest advantage is his age: "Even if it really finds me, then I will have something to say, and I don't understand the Tao at these unofficial official meetings, right?"

"Well, thank you, Zheng, thank you for trusting me!"

Valentin Levin's smile softened a lot, and after saying that, he handed it to the editor-in-chief Igor Angelis, who was looking at him opposite, who quickly took it and looked at it, then got up and said, "Zheng, you sit down first, I'll go out and let them see, Abraham, Leon, you come out." ”

"Oh, okay, Mr. Editor-in-Chief, go get busy!"

Put down the coffee and stood up to watch Eagle take the others out, Zheng Jianguo sat down again and drank the coffee, then turned his head to look at Valentin Levin next to him and said with a smile: "Mr. Levin, I think molecular biology will make great achievements in the future, which is why I chose "Cell" to publish this review, but at present, with my understanding of "Cell", its competitors are not without it, I want to confirm your positioning of "Cell"——"

"My position in Cell?"

Valentin Levin's smile was slightly stiff, and Zheng Jianguo nodded and said, "Yes, I wonder if you want to develop Cell like the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, or even more authoritative Science and Nature than both—"

"You-"

When the smile on Valentin Levin's face quickly faded, Zheng Jianguo even provoked the purpose of his visit: "If Mr. Levin wants to run it into the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, or even an authoritative journal that is on par with Science and Nature, I will provide you with all-round support from funding to academics, and you should know that I will enter the joint MD and PhD training program at Massachusetts General Hospital after graduation——"