Chapter 1204 Going home and dreaming
12 noon.
Yang Rui pinched his watch and announced: "Today's working time is up. Everyone should go home to rest. There is Zhang and Chi, the way of civil and military affairs, right?"
"Really rest?" Professor Manhai looked at Yang Rui with a strange tone.
Yang Rui frowned and said, "Of course it's really a rest. Didn't I say it yesterday? Everyone rested for a long time and had a good rest. It's not just a joke to die of overwork."
If there was any problem in the scientific community in the 1980s that it was more serious than that of "the missile-making people are not as good as those who sell tea eggs", it was the problem of death from overwork. In the academic institutions in Beijing, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, many middle-aged scholars died suddenly every year. In this era, there was actually no concept of death from overwork, but those who died were all researchers in their prime, which was very telling.
When the Ion Channel Laboratory just started research on "G protein-coupled receptors", Yang Rui didn't care much about this issue. The 110-hour working system sounds a bit inhumane, but in the 1980s, it was really nothing.
Elementary school students in the 1980s had to attend six days of classes a week. A little better middle school, even students in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school, started making up for classes, started morning self-study at 7 in the morning, and there were also many schools that went to study at 10 in the evening. All the scientific research dogs in college were learned all the way, and they were even more tired and ordinary.
However, as the production of bovine rhodopsin protein continued to rise, Yang Rui's sense of crisis was reduced a lot, and the requirements for project continuity and safety were clearly increased.
It's like in the F1 race, when the number one vehicle is already far ahead of the second, it can reduce the speed slightly, and even if it enters the station and refuels and changes tires, it is an option to consider.
From Yang Rui's perspective, when he used the "Sleepwalking Method", the difficulty of the first phase of the task had been reduced a lot.
"The conformation of G protein-coupled receptor" is naturally difficult to do from the front to the back, but it is nothing more than trial and error.
Trial and error naturally has costs and requirements, but the most important cost and requirements are actually the astonishing and easy-to-use "G protein-coupled receptor". For ion channel laboratories, the "bovine rhodopsin protein" they use is both easy to use and sufficient.
Therefore, Yang Rui felt that the speed of the car slowed down slightly, and he could even make an entry into the station once.
Unfortunately, his thoughts at this time have never been recognized by everyone.
A group of researchers had a much heavier sense of crisis than him. Even though Yang Rui seriously announced the rest, several people were reluctant to leave.
"I'll finish it with one more thing."
"I'll see if there's anything pulled down."
"My wife is not at home in the afternoon, so I'm so idle when I go back alone."
Everyone has their own reasons, but they just don't want to move anyway.
However, a group of scientific research dogs do the heaviest work on weekdays. Now they all stick their tongues out, and they want to leave but are embarrassed to leave.
"I'm going to lock the laboratory door. You have to rest if you don't have to rest today. Let's go back, ah, go back." Yang Rui felt like a perverted boss, kicking people out of the laboratory one by one.
Several people stood at the door and were still unwilling to leave. Manhai said seriously: "Director Yang, we follow you to study just to achieve results. Rest is really not important. The current research progress is improving. I think we should seize the opportunity and not delay it for an afternoon rest."
His words were very agreed by others, and several people nodded.
Indeed, the newly added professors, whether Manhai, Feng Junming or Tao Xuelin, are all here for the success of G protein coupling receptors. There are many things to give up. At least, they have put aside their temporary facial problems.
However, giving up face temporarily does not mean that you really don’t care about face anymore, but a temporary compromise made in order to strive for greater face in the future.
Ultimately, they are optimistic about the ion channel laboratory and can achieve certain success in G protein coupling receptors before they voluntarily join the ion channel laboratory. For this goal, they can give up temporary face and of course give up temporary rest.
The so-called "being harder in the endurance of hardships can lead to the best of others. This was a thought that was deeply rooted in people's hearts in the 1980s.
Yang Rui grabbed his head and didn't know what to say. To be honest, he couldn't say whether it would be effective if it was forced to rest for a long time, let alone scientific basis. But he was clearer that if he kept doing it all the time, there would be no problem today and tomorrow, and this month and next month, but there would be problems.
Thinking of this, Yang Rui said: "I think what you think is the result of results, but the result of what I think is probably a bit different."
"How to say it?" A group of researchers stood firm in the position of debating with Yang Rui.
"You are probably thinking about continuing to work hard to make the conformation of the transmembrane region of the G-protein-coupled receptor, even if it is a result, right?" Yang Rui asked.
Manhai was pushed by someone beside him and stood up for no reason. He couldn't figure out Yang Rui's ideas, so he had no choice but to speak helplessly: "Director Yang, I have this idea. Of course, if you want to continue doing it, I agree..."
The director of the laboratory is the head of the laboratory and the largest boss in the laboratory. Everyone understands the principle of not offending him at will. Even though Manhai is a professor at Peking University, he still has a style of being a human with his tail between his tail after entering the ion channel laboratory.
After all, Yang Rui's reputation has accumulated to the level of today, and he has steadily sat under his hips, which is difficult to challenge.
Yang Rui was also used to top-down speeches. He looked at the dozens of people around him, coughed gently, and said, "When I started to do G protein-coupled receptors, we said that our goal is to create the three-dimensional structure of G protein-coupled receptors... Today, I would like to emphasize again that our goal is to create the three-dimensional structure of G protein-coupled receptors. The conformation is just the first step."
The heavy breathing sound and the suppressed voice in the throat well interpret everyone's mood at this moment.
"Of course, I know that it is difficult to produce the three-dimensional structure of G protein-coupled receptors. There is a high possibility that it cannot be done. However, the time to judge whether it can be done is not now, but one year or two years later, or even three or four years later, right?" Yang Rui was not planning to spend several years on the research of G protein-coupled receptors, but taking several years is the norm in the scientific research community.
Even if it takes decades, it is extremely normal in basic scientific research.
When Yang Rui said this, he paused again and said, "Actually, the three-dimensional structure of G-protein coupled receptor is difficult to do. Is it easy to do a transmembrane conformation? Can anyone guarantee that a transmembrane conformation will be made in a few months, six months, or one year?"
Everyone lowered their heads and quietly.
Who dares to make this guarantee? If anyone can make half a Nobel Prize achievement worth half a year, then there must be a problem with intelligence - the possibility of being too strong exists, and more likely to be too stupid.
"So, let's take a break today, and the same goes for the future. Let's take a break for at least two or three days a month. Is it good to ensure a sustainable research state?" Yang Rui asked as if coaxing the child.
Several researchers looked at each other and finally nodded.
Yang Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself that political work is really difficult.
He turned around and was about to lock the door, but when Manhai was pushed out again, he asked, "Director Yang, didn't you say a few days ago that the conformation was about to be made? He also said that there was a perfect plan..."
"I have a relatively complete theory, but I need your experiment support." Yang Rui laughed twice, threw everyone out like a chicken, and said, "Everyone goes back to take a bath, and they will smell bad. Well, I can come to the laboratory later tomorrow, all of them are suffocated, and the experiment cannot be completed..."
Yang Rui showed his attitude as a tutor and sent the researchers out one by one.
The moment she left the door, Yang Rui relaxed and looked up at the sky, feeling that the sky was getting bluer.
"I'm going back to sleep." Yang Rui patted Gu Qiang's shoulder, and his whole body exuded the breath of my dream.
Chapter completed!