"Professor Yang, let's talk as we go. "Mr. Zheng has met Yang Rui several times, and he is a relatively familiar young man in the scientific community.

When he needed to make scientific decisions, he would occasionally consult Yang Rui, and of course, most of the time it was through documents.

Yang Rui smiled at the accompanying CCTV officials and said, "I didn't mean to disturb, but I think the latest news from the laboratory should be reported to the authorities immediately." ”

"Well, is everything going well?" Zheng Lao's first thought was the same as Yang Rui's, did there be an accident.

Unlike researchers, who think of laboratory accidents as easily, ordinary people are still quite worried about laboratories, especially biological laboratories.

Even for high-ranking officials, accidents have very serious circumstances.

For example, the chemical plant accident in India in the 70s made them very "popular" internationally.

Fortunately, Yang Rui's expression was relaxed, and Zheng Lao didn't have to think too deeply.

Yang Rui looked to both sides and said, "I don't know if you remember, I once asked for a larger research project as the No. 1 project of the genetic engineering laboratory. ”

"Of course, I have the impression that you asked for a lot of money. Zheng Lao laughed.

If you want to talk about the total amount of funds, China's most expensive thing is infrastructure first, followed by factory upgrading, the so-called infrastructure madness is not in vain, such as the Gezhouba project, which was world-class in the 80s, although there are projects such as the Three Gorges that surpass it, but because the later records are more exaggerated, it doesn't matter if the previous records are more exaggerated.

Compared with infrastructure spending, China's military spending is nothing, and research spending is naturally lower. The tens of millions of yuan of funds given to Yang Rui cannot be said to be well known, and relevant people have also heard of it.

Yang Rui laughed twice, and then said seriously: "The money was not spent in vain, we made it." ”

To rejuvenate the country through science and education, it is necessary to raise science and grasp education, and CCTV should also do more interviews and reports in this regard. Zheng Lao didn't let the escorts on both sides be too lonely.

"Definitely. The CCTV cadre next to him hurriedly expressed his position and smiled at Yang Rui: "Professor Yang's research, we have been tracking, and we will continue to track it in the future......

Yang Rui nodded cooperatively, and then said: "If you only make a part, don't dare to delay your trip." ”

"Huh. Did you make it?"

Yang Rui nodded solemnly, he had repeatedly confirmed it, and said without hesitation at this time: "As expected, we have completed it, and the project can be declared successful, but I"

Zheng Lao walked very evenly and paused suddenly.

The few cadres who followed behind him, if they hadn't been caught up, there would have been a problem at that time.

"In this way, find a conference room with a telephone, and Yang Rui will come with me first. Zheng Lao said to the people on CCTV, but fortunately, some stunned cadres reacted quickly.

"Come to my office, there's a confidential phone. The leader of the director team immediately stepped forward to open the way, and when he arrived at the place, he was pulled out again.

Zheng Lao and Yang Rui entered one after the other, closing the door tightly.

The leader who was locked out of the door glanced back and said in a low voice: "Huang Mi, will the visit continue?"

"Of course. Secretary Huang said: "The time may be shortened, but the itinerary will not change." ”

"I see, I'm going to rearrange the rehearsal program......"

"Don't bother, rehearsals go as usual. Secretary Huang's answer immediately made several people sad.

In the room, Zheng Lao's expression was not relaxed.

If one were to explain the meaning of "cloning sheep" to someone outside of academia, it could be explained in one sentence: human cloning is no longer technically difficult.

Yes, the true significance of cloning a sheep is that it was the first mammal to be cloned. Before that, humans had long since cloned microorganisms, cloned invertebrates, cloned various fish and amphibians......

But cloning mammals, moreover, is somatic cloning, for the first time and most worrying.

The difficulty of crossing this threshold and then cloning people is nothing more than spending some money and spending some time. If you want a number, a well-equipped genetics laboratory with tens of millions of dollars in funding, plus a few years, can definitely make human cloning.

Some people may say that tens of millions of dollars is not a lot, and a few years is not a short time, but how much is it and how many years?

It doesn't really matter how much, it's an order of magnitude that needs to be paid attention to at the moment.

Tens of millions of dollars is a lot of money for any single lab, but it's nothing for a project that the world cares about.

If it weren't for the restrictions of ethics and public opinion, any radio and television station or film company might be willing to pay to make a clone.

Before the appearance of cloned sheep, everyone did not know how long it would take to cross this line.

From an afterthought's point of view, many people probably take sheep cloning for granted, however, that's not how science works.

Mammal-to-mammal-to-mammal-to-mammal, not from amphibians to mammals.

Just like the nuclear fission reactor after the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb is taken for granted, but many people are happy to think that nuclear fusion is coming, mankind is about to enter an era of extreme energy abundance, and the material cornerstone of communism is almost completed.

The same is true of the moon landing program. Since the 70s, there have been countless literary works imagining the Mars landing and extraterrestrial colonization, and it is natural for people to think that landing on the moon can land on Mars, and landing on Mars can colonize aliens......

However, the results are known to everyone.

The same is true for cloning sheep, and it is difficult to say whether mammalian cloning will be successful if no one has done it.

Maybe it will be made in 10 years, maybe it won't be seen in 50 years.

Especially the cloned sheep made of somatic cells, the so-called real cloning, no one dared to guarantee before it was made.

Maybe you can't do it?

It's hard for scholars to give a definite answer, and decades ago, scholars believed they could find the ether, but what happened?

The same example can be given to frozen humans and head swapping, and if successful, people will congratulate them as if they had a successful heart replacement: I know.

If it fails, people ...... No one knows the name of the loser.

Yang Rui also came to clone sheep with the fear of failure.

The loss of failure is enormous, and the meaning of success is beyond the sky.

This is true for academics, but it is also true for officials.

"Professor Yang, what are your next plans?" asked Yang Rui first.

"I don't think human cloning should be attempted. Yang Rui knew what he meant, and said without hesitation: "The ethical problem is too serious, and next, I think we should consider how to inform countries and the scientific community." ”

(End of chapter)