If New York is the heart of the capitalist country of the United States, then the Manhattan borough of New York City is the blood surging in this heart.

Manhattan is the economic and cultural center of the United States, home to most of the world's top 500 companies, Wall Street, NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange and even the headquarters of the United Nations.

Such a large number of titles have naturally created the real estate status quo in Manhattan, and ordinary people may not have enough money to buy a lot of land the size of a public toilet after working all their lives.

In Midtown Manhattan, there is a high-rise building standing proudly, and the exaggerated and avant-garde shape is far more eye-catching than the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and Chrysler Building next to it.

The building is roughly K-shaped, bottle-shaped, with a large steel frame affixed to the top: S

Stark, Stark Building.

Needless to say, the owner of this high-rise building is none other than the playboy, billionaire, scientist, engineer, and arms tycoon - Iron Man Tony Stark.

At this moment, this world-renowned superhero is holding a private party on the top floor with a group of celebrities.

said that it was a party, but in fact, it was a group of red men and green women who were addicted to noisy music and staggered materialism.

In normal times, Tony Stark would have been the center of the meeting and the focus of everyone, but he took the initiative to avoid the crowds, went to a secluded corner of the rooftop, walked straight to a chaise longue and lay down, hunched his legs and hummed an out-of-tune song.

The other chaise longue next to him already had an owner, and after the humming noise, the man peeked out from behind the magazine, rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Even if you don't want to stay in it, don't come and bother me, okay?" ”

The name of the speaker is Bruce Banner, a nuclear physicist, Tony Stark is a graduate of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Bruce Banner has also worked at MIT and is half an alumnus.

The two are both internationally renowned physicists, and they share a common language and a close personal relationship.

"It's not that I don't want to stay in there, but to build up energy," Tony Stark said with a blink and a normal expression, "I still have a lot of work to do tonight." ”

Bruce Banner rolled his eyes and complained, "If you say that your job is to have dinner with those Russian ballerina, then I can understand it very well, but I don't know what your assistant secretary Pepper thinks." ”

"What is the secretary doing if you have something~" Tony stretched out the last note, skipped the topic, randomly pulled the journal in Bruce Banner's hand, and looked through it twice, "Isn't this Nature, what, you have a new paper?" ”

The so-called "Nature" magazine, which is an academic journal "Nature", was founded in 1869 in the United Kingdom, enjoys a very high status in the academic community, and is listed as the world's two top academic journals along with the American "Science" magazine.

If the description is too pale and distant, it would be useful to put it another way: for scientists, being able to publish in Nature means a rise in status, a lot of funding, and media attention.

The demanding difficulty, the rewards and the crown of "representing the world's cutting-edge technology" have made it highly sought after by anyone working in the field of science, and if you can make a name for yourself in Nature, it means a career in academia.

As a long-established nuclear physicist, it is naturally easy for Bruce Banner to publish a paper in a journal, but Tony Stark was surprised to find that the paper that Bruce carefully looked through and even carefully marked on it had nothing to do with nuclear physics at all, but a medical paper on the comprehensive culture of tracheal stem cells.

While reading the paper, Tony Stark frowned and said casually: "Interesting, the stem cell culture technology on this is quite mature...."

"That's right," Bruce Banner nodded, "do you remember who the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to?" ”

"Hmm...."Tony Stark rubbed his delicate stubble and said uncertainly, "It seems to be a Japanese scientist named Yamanaka Yamanaka?" ”

"It's Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Kyoto University." Bruce corrected: "He led the technical team to discover a way to induce the differentiation of human epidermal fan cells into embryonic stem cell activity characteristics, and successfully differentiated stem cells into heart muscle or nerve cells. ”

"I'm a little impressed." Tony slumped heavily on the recliner, sucked on a cocktail on the glass table, and said lazily, "Isn't it always emphasized by the media at the time? It is said that stem cell technology will be the future of human medicine, but there has been no real results until now. ”

"Scientific research takes time." "It's not unclear to you," Bruce emphasized, "that it takes decades for any epoch-making scientific and technological achievement to go from theory to application. ”

Tony Stark's brow furrowed slightly, and his old friend used the word "epoch-making", which forced him to pick up the journal Nature again and re-read the paper.

This time he raised his head, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes, "This paper also hints that there are follow-up experimental results, and if we go further, I am afraid that we can really make something that can be put into practical use, such as artificial organs." ”

This is incredible, artificial organs that can be replaced at will mean that countless diseases can be easily overcome, countless terminally ill patients can be saved, and it also represents the first time that the pharmaceutical industry has touched the "supreme key" to the health of all mankind.

Tony knew in his heart, thinking that Bruce was so keen on this, probably thinking that stem cell technology could help him deal with the transformation of the Hulk.

Not only that, Tony also found a trace of strangeness in the paper, this article on the comprehensive culture of stem cells is too simple, without citing classics, long speeches, and the whole body is surprisingly small, and even in the signature column, it does not follow the unspoken rules of the academic community - add the names of some well-known scholars, but simply print the two pinyin "li'ang".

"By name, you're still Chinese?" Tony Stark flipped through the papers, but found nothing in the paper about the research institute where the 'li'ang' was located or any other information that could identify him.

This is unusual, you must know that scientists are eager to make a QR code of their identity and paste it on the top of the paper, for fear that others will not know who their surname is and who they are from such and such a research institute.

"Wait, li'ang....." Tony suddenly remembered something, glared at Bruce and said, "You know I attended the National Industrial and Agricultural Symposium at the White House the other day, right?" ”

"Yes."

This kind of seminar is not very authoritative, in fact, it is to bring together the giants of all walks of life to sit with the White House think tank to discuss the future direction of the country's industrial and agricultural development.

"There was a rather novel, even revolutionary, patented technology at the hearing, hydroponic meat," Tony Stark said in a voice: "If I'm not mistaken, the patent applicant for hydroponic meat technology, his name is also Li'ang." ”