Center of Excellence for Molecular Plants, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wang Tao wore a white coat on his upper body and looked like a professional scientific researcher, but the khaki shorts on his lower body, the plush legs, and the brown sandals betrayed him deeply.

He was looking at his phone with one eye and scanning his E. coli dish array with the other.

For these captive E. coli, he is their master, he is their commander.

It's just that for this master, what bothers him the most is that E. coli grows too slowly.

"Wang Tao, come over and take a photo together." The boss shouted outside the door again.

Wang Tao stood up and looked back at the boss and said, "Boss, I won't go to take pictures...... What does the outcome have to do with me? ”

"Why doesn't it matter? Don't worry, you'll get results too. The boss came in and patted Wang Tao on the shoulder and led him to the lab next door.

As for the photos that are about to be taken, that's pretty good.

It's someone from the middle of the capital.

Why did they come?

Because, the team under the boss of Wang Tao "created the world's first eukaryotic cell with a single chromosome".

This is also a kind of creative life, and of course it is not 100% creative life, as all previous attempts by humans to create life.

If we say, this creation life is different from other creation life.

It is because of this scientific research project led by Wang Tao, to a certain extent, it has crossed the barrier between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and successfully synthesized the first single-chromosome eukaryotic yeast cell.

The results were carefully validated over four years before being published in the journal Nature.

This world-class scientific research is another milestone breakthrough in the field of synthetic biology after American scientists in 2010.

It brings honor to Wang Tao's boss and team members, and is also likely to bring about a promotion in rank.

An associate researcher can be promoted to associate researcher, and an associate researcher can be promoted to researcher.

As for the boss of the researcher, it is likely to advance to the rank of academician.

But......

Although they belong to the same boss, compared with the glory of the seniors next door, Wang Tao's side is much more obscure.

Although the experimental projects he is engaged in, once they make breakthroughs, they are also at the forefront of the world. However, before he made a breakthrough in melee combat, he was just an E. coli commander, a commander who felt that the large intestine felt slow to grow.

However, while another team made a breakthrough. Wang Tao's boss did not favor one over the other. Although there is no way to let Wang Tao, who did not participate in the experiment, also get the promotion of the title.

But you can take him on TV and report together.

In this way, Wang Tao also became a person who lived in the news network, and the photo with the seniors and the boss also appeared in major newspapers.

But behind the glory was years of hardship, returning to his E. coli empire, he observed the growth in all the petri dishes, and continued to take out his mobile phone.

When he opened WeChat, he suddenly received a reminder from a friend to add.

He poked the red dot on WeChat, and in the address book, clicked on the My Friends interface.

"Xue Wang

I'm Xue Wang. ”

Wang Tao directly clicked through.

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Xue Wang didn't expect that he would pass it as soon as he added it.

WHEN HE THOUGHT THAT "ESCHERICHIA COLI GROWS SLOWLY" MIGHT BE A PROFESSIONAL, HE CLICKED ON HIS CILICILI ACCOUNT AND FOUND HIS MESSAGE TO HIMSELF AMONG THOUSANDS OF PRIVATE MESSAGES.

In the message, Wang Tao left his WeChat account, hoping to communicate more with Xue Wang.

Generally speaking, Xue Wang does not interact too closely with fans.

Because he feels that his video is his own video, like a chef's cooking. The food is delicious, there is no need to find a chef, right?

Xue Wang is self-aware of himself, and he knows that if fans really have more contact with him, he will have a sense of disillusionment.

However, today is not the usual time, and he needs professional people to help him.

"Hello, I'm Xue Wang."

Xue Wang was in the chat box, first explaining who he was again.

Then, he asked, "Hello, your nickname for station C is 'E. coli grows slowly', are you a student biographer?" ”

"Yes." Wang Tao replied, "Are you looking for a biology major?" I'm really sorry for the trouble I caused you by editing your video without your permission. ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Xue Wang finished typing this line first, and then said, "Are you good at creating life?" ”

"Create life?"

Wang Tao confirmed.

"Hmmm! Create life! ”

Xue Wang felt that there was a play. Although I haven't communicated much with Wang Tao, I feel that he is a reliable person, at least a person with reliable professional ability.

Because, those who don't understand will immediately deny it.

And the kind of people who don't know how to pretend to understand will feel that they know how to take care of everything.

Only the kind of people who are doing research in this field know their weakness, and they dare not say how much they understand, but they really do.

Although this is just Xue Wang's wishful thinking, at this moment, he really guessed it.

Wang Tao asked, "My boss and seniors are better at this, and they just finished the interview." ”

Xue Wang hesitated for a moment and said, "That's great!" But...... What I'm going to say next, they probably won't believe it. You may not even believe it. ”

"You say." Wang Tao said politely.

Even though he is a doctor, even though the twenty-first century is the century of biology, even though he has a villa in the magic capital.

However, in his early thirties, he already understood that in the modern era, scientific research is far from making money.

Researchers are often labelled as mentally retarded, and successful businessmen, no matter how much they talk about E. coli, have people who believe what they say.

"I'm face blind!"

"The thing I regret the most is ......"

"I ......"

As a result, he learned to be polite to all who came into contact with him. Perhaps, this is the growth handle, file off the edges and corners, and become rounded.

Xue Wang hesitated for a while, and finally sent out the typed text. If you can't even win the person in front of you who has a good impression of you, how can you talk about forming a team to create life?

"I want to ...... Create life in that ball in my livestream, in the video you edited. ”

Although he told the truth, it was because the matter itself was too bizarre. Even if he is very sincere, others will think that he is telling a serious joke.

He didn't wait for Wang Tao's reply, but crackled himself through the process of creating amino acids with lightning and ultraviolet light, synthesizing dipeptides and proteins from amino acids, and making a DNA fragment.

After swiping the screen, he asked Wang Tao, "Do you believe it?" ”

"I believe it."