Chapter 33: Questioned

In the laboratory, Yang Zhou manipulated the instrument, cut the carrot seeds, took out the most central bit of embryonic material, and after countless processes, then put it into a centrifuge to finely separate the embryos.

There is little difference between plant nucleic acid extraction and animal nucleic acid extraction, but in the initial extraction, plants generally use liquid nitrogen rupture or cellulosic hydrolase, and animal cells mostly use homogenization.

Yang Zhou is very busy now, even if he has Tang Yue as an assistant, he feels too busy.

Because designing a gene editor is really not that simple, he has to be busy back and forth in countless experimental instruments, and what he does now is to extract nucleic acid information in the first step, and then put the information into the gene editor.

Nucleic acid, also known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), is a biological macromolecular compound and one of the most basic substances of life.

In layman's terms, the nucleic acid information extracted by Yang Zhou is a piece of code, and the gene editor is an instrument, and the extracted code must be used to drive the gene editing instrument.

Let the Cas9 gene editor precisely clip out a segment of gene on the carrot blast cell.

Nucleic acid information is not life, so when Yang Zhou extracts it, he needs to use various chemical materials, and then he has to run electrophoresis and water bath messy instruments together.

Crucially, he had to repeat it countless times, each time documenting the photographs of these experiments.

Because in the paper, pictures are very important things.

In this way, others can see whether your paper is reliable or not, other data is easy to falsify, but pictures are more difficult.

Of course, there have also been very low-level PS picture fraud in the academic world, and it is a fraud incident that has almost caused a sensation in the world's academic circles, that is, the "Kohokata Haruko Fraud Incident" in the foot basin country.

The beautiful doctor Haruko Kobo claimed to have extracted "STAP cells", which is what many people call universal cells.

Nowadays, stem cells are often referred to in the medical field, which are STAP cells.

Cells extracted from the skin are isolated from pluripotent cells.

This pluripotent cell is the cell in the embryonic stage.

Human beings develop from a cell to a fetus, and slowly form body features, internal organs, limbs, etc., all of which are in the initial cell, setting the genetic material "program".

Therefore, the pluripotent cell is very important, it can induce and cultivate various human organs in the later stage, and it can also complete cloning, which is equivalent to obtaining a hair, which can replicate a complete person.

Such an achievement is naturally at the Nobel Prize level, and Haruko Kobokata's mentor Yoshiki Sasai is also a very powerful figure, because it is he who led the treatment of eye diseases with stem cells, and the use of stem cells to induce local organs of the eye, which is the first case in the world.

He was also a disciple of Nobel laureate Geden.

At first, Haruko Kobokata's research was submitted to the journal Nature, but it was not recognized, and the next year it was resubmitted, but it was still rejected, and it was not until the third year that the top journal finally published a paper on the extraction of stem cells from the skin.

"Footbasin Country Marie Curie", "Pride of the Nation", "National Treasure" and countless other titles were placed on her head.

Waseda University, the top university in the country of foot basins, awarded a doctorate degree to Haruko Kohokata.

While receiving countless honors, Haruko Kobo has also been questioned by countless people.

Until even Nobel scholars publicly questioned it, in the end, Haruko Kobo could only repeat the experiment in front of countless media.

But after more than 200 experiments, Haruko Kobokata still didn't succeed.

Soon after, Yoshiki Sasai committed suicide and encouraged his students to continue in a suicide note, and Waseda University announced that he would retract his thesis.

The media later dug up more news, and it was rumored that the relationship between the master and apprentice was not simple.

The tutor committed suicide and the discredited Xiaobao Haruko has died socially, and the root of all this is P-map, academic fraud!

Therefore, don't take a fluke to carry out academic fraud, even if you can hide it for a while, but it is difficult to hide it for a lifetime.

All the experiments carried out by Yang Zhou strive to be repeated in the future, and there is a clear experimental trajectory in front of the photos.

Then why others can't make the same carrots, it's none of Yang Zhou's business.

Because Yang Zhou intends to genetically lock the cultivated carrot seeds, and then whoever wants to verify it can send an email to buy the carrot seeds.

Many laboratories make money from selling experimental materials.

Yang Zhou can also set a super high price for his carrot seeds, and the top international laboratories, especially those that are conducting Cas9 research, will definitely buy them.

Two hours a day is not enough time for experiments, but every time I do an experiment, there is a group of people in the laboratory watching, and when the time is up, the administrator will come to catch people.

On the first day, Yang Zhou was too selfless because of the experiment, and in the end, he didn't have time to clean up, and he was counted out by everyone.

Now Yang Zhou has to stay for 20 minutes to tidy up, some materials have to be put into the freezer, and some have to be put into the holding room for cultivation.

The experimental instruments should also be all returned to their places.

Because it took up Peng Zhenqiang's time, Peng Zhenqiang originally had 4 hours, almost an afternoon to do experiments, but now there are only 2 hours left, so he has been watching Yang Zhou unpleasantly for the past few days.

The reason why it can't be postponed is because there was a period of time in the evening that was dedicated to professors, and in the middle of the night, others were not happy to delay, so the professor in the microbiology laboratory let Yang Zhou occupy Peng Zhenqiang's time.

Anyway, Peng Zhenqiang has 2 hours, which is completely enough.

When Yang Zhou cleaned up, Peng Zhenqiang took his experimental records and came to the laboratory.

It's someone else's territory, and it's not a dangerous microbial experiment.

There are many other experimental instruments in the entire laboratory room, and when Yang Zhou is not in use, others are also using them.

Under such circumstances, Yang Zhou's experimental progress is basically impossible to hide.

Peng Zhenqiang observed for several days and determined that Yang Zhou was just fooling around, and it was impossible to achieve scientific research results, so he finally decided to attack today.

He wants to humiliate Yang Zhou, drive Yang Zhou away, and then he can do an afternoon experiment again.

"Our provincial champion, how is the great genius today, is it effective to repeat those experiments every day?" Peng Zhenqiang hugged his arms and watched Yang Zhou sort out the experimental records.

Yang Zhou was used to this guy coming over every day to say a few cool words, he continued to concentrate on checking the experimental records written by Tang Yue, which contained all kinds of pictures, and Yang Zhou also had to take a closer look at them, so that there could be no omissions.

Seeing that Yang Zhou still ignored himself, Peng Zhenqiang smiled and said: "I don't know who it is, I posted our big genius's experimental plan on the school forum, and now it's lively, don't you go to see the big genius?" ”

Yang Zhou is really interested, is this a "well-wisher" who knows that he lacks experience and helps him reverse marketing to attract fans?

Anyway, they were all using the computer, Yang Zhou found the school forum from the address bar, entered his account password, and immediately saw that there was a post with a lot of messages on the homepage.

After looking at it roughly, he frowned slightly.

Because this person has posted a lot of photos, including him and Tang Yue, the reason why it is so lively is probably related to the fact that Tang Yue is a big beauty.

The content is not disgusting, the post mainly explains the difficulty of gene editing, how many large laboratories have not achieved any results, but Yang Zhou entered this field with 2 people.

The occupation of the microbiology laboratory was not mentioned at all, but under the rhythm of the landlord's various answers, countless students of Qingbei University had begun to doubt Yang Zhou's purpose.

Everyone thinks that Yang Zhou's laboratory is fake, and the bubble girl is real!

No one believed that Yang Zhou would be able to complete the carrot gene editing experiment, and even if it did, it would be to create a deformed radish, and it was impossible to control the size and color of the carrot.

After all, the photo is not a video, with some intimate photos, it really looks like Yang Zhou is making a girl.