Gu Qiang did three sets of verification experiments, not only to ensure the credibility of the results, but also to accumulate some data and prepare for future comparisons. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ouyang Shi took over Yang Rui's work, grabbed seven prepared mice, and began to do the gender identification of embryos.

The difficulty of gender identification lies in the design of primers, and at the same time, it is also one of the important thresholds for embryo transfer.

Yang Rui designed primers, and the most difficult threshold was crossed.

For the rest of the work, he might as well hand it over to Ouyang Shi and give him a second author by the way.

For Yang Rui, it is no longer so important whether a paper is led alone.

Even if a paper can win a Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize Committee will not actually decide the award because of the signature of the paper, not to mention that the Nobel Prize is usually given to people, not to the article or research itself.

Nowhere was this more evident than in Albert Einstein. Einstein's reason for winning the Nobel Prize was the discovery of the photoelectric effect. The photoelectric effect is of course very important and deserves a Nobel Prize, but this is Einstein!

The first thing that comes to mind when anyone thinks of Albert Einstein's academic research is the theory of relativity, and the Nobel Prize Committee is no exception.

However, the theory of relativity was unproven, and although everyone thought that the theory of relativity was a bulwark, it would be too risky to set the reason for the Nobel Prize award as the unproven theory of relativity -- the theory of ether was still in vogue not long before Einstein, and who could be sure that the theory of relativity was not another hypothesis that could not be falsified for the time being.

However, Einstein is too good to give him the Nobel Prize, and he really can't drag it out.

Therefore, the reason for Einstein's final award became the photoelectric effect - it deserved the award, but it was by no means the reason for Einstein's award.

In fact, modern science has become more and more difficult to complete alone, and Yang Rui's previous PCR, which was completed independently, is not far away, even if it is not the last Nobel Prize-level technology completed by a single person, and this is what he deliberately did.

The small project of gender identification is naturally not worth Yang Rui doing independently.

In fact, if Yang Rui was ruthless, he would casually find two experimental dogs to cooperate with him, or just let the whole laboratory help, and if he didn't sign it, probably no one would dare to jump.

In the eyes of outsiders, the authority of the person in charge of the laboratory may be insignificant or ambiguous, but inside the laboratory, it is still extremely heavy, especially for a well-known scholar like Yang Rui.

However, power does not belong to Yang Rui's choice, and he himself does not like such pure exploitation. Yang Rui would rather come up with one or more second authors, and if the collaborators have the corresponding contributions, Yang Rui does not mind giving up one or more first authors.

Even if his goal is Nature.

Yes, Yang Rui plans to publish his gender-identifying paper in the famous Nature journal, and he doesn't care about the Journal of Nutrition, or the British Journal of Nutrition.

These two journals are indeed the top journals in the industry, but the industry in which they operate is a small animal husbandry, not a huge biology, let alone a legendary natural science.

The fame, social influence, and status of a journal are, roughly speaking, closely related to the breadth of its coverage. The earliest and most famous journals Nature and Science undoubtedly occupy the commanding heights of journal status, which has a lot to do with the fact that they have the widest coverage.

Among the biological journals, "Cell", which covers the whole biological scope, bears the brunt, but even if its impact factor is often higher than that of "Nature" and "Science", in terms of the influence and status of the whole society, it is still not comparable to the latter two.

By the same token, the Lancet, a journal that only covers medicine, even though it is known for its professionalism and often exaggerated impact factors, is not as influential in biology as Cell, and can only fight with journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine in the field of medicine.

Further, "cancercell" is more specialized, so although it is a typical cow, a journal that eats a lifetime of paper, but to say that the social influence outside the industry, is naturally narrower.

For today's Yang Rui, what can a cattle article in an animal husbandry journal do?

Researchers in the genetic engineering lab are in great need of a journal like the Journal of Nutrition, to be precise, so eager that they dare not fantasize about a journal like the Journal of Nutrition.

But for Yang Rui, what does he want a journal with an impact factor of 3.0? Is it just to prove to others that he has studied animal husbandry?

No matter how strong the industry's top journal is, it is impossible to be more valuable than S.

One more article of "Nature" I don't know how many times it is a cow.

Of course, publishing a "Nature" article is also a matter of many times more difficult. In fact, if Ouyang Shi or Gu Qiang wrote an article on "Applying PCR Technology to Sex Identification and Gender Control in Early Embryos", ten out of ten would not have been published.

Because they have not yet proven themselves in the international academic community.

Therefore, papers like this that are not qualified by looking at the name cannot be used as a stepping stone for them.

If Yang Rui, who has only published one cell, goes to submit, nine out of ten will not be published, also because the strength of this stepping stone is not enough.

However, for Yang Rui, who has already been in contact with all of them, he still has a 30% chance of publishing this paper - he is a world-renowned scholar who has knocked on the door, and he will pay attention to it if he wants to publish a new paper, whether it is cell or science.

If you count Yang Rui's identity as the pioneer of PCR technology, the probability of three percent will rise sharply to six or seven percent. In the face of S-level journals, six or seven percent is a very reliable success rate, and it is completely worth a try.

In other words, if the exact same paper is signed by Yang Rui, there is a sixty or seventy percent chance of publication, and if it is signed by Sun Zhengchu, it will never be published.

The world is so unfair!

Of course, judging from the actual situation, Sun Zhengchu is too tired to make such an article, and there is no way to talk about the discrimination of top journals such as S.

However, Yang Rui is not prepared to talk about topics such as Nature before the paper is published.

It's okay to do something like that, and it doesn't need to be said at all.

When Ouyang Shi was busy doing "prenatal education" for the mice, Yang Rui spread out the formation and wrote, and by the way, taught Gu Qiang, Sun Zhengchu and others to write in English.

Don't look at the later generations of graduate students who can write English papers without passing the sixth level of English, that is also the accumulation of years of experience, in the environment of the 80s, when it was difficult to buy English learning materials, Yang Rui's experience is properly BRICS.

As a result, the researchers, who had just taken a few days off, once again entered the state of overtime without regrets.

Yang Rui was a little more leisurely, and while waiting for Ouyang Shi to complete the experiment, he casually entertained the scholars and officials who came to visit, and occasionally conducted some performative experiments.

Everything was calm like a pond in a mountain col.

Even Ouyang Shi didn't notice that Yang Rui had already sent the paper as soon as possible after completing the last step.

On the contrary, in the cafeteria of the laboratory, a group of unrelated researchers excitedly discussed the question of who is stronger and weaker in the Journal of Nutrition and the British Journal of Nutrition. (To be continued.) )