"It doesn't seem like a very complicated technology." Nathan is a senior researcher. If it weren't for Dalbeko's retention, he would probably have gone to a university to be a professor now.

In academic terms, Nathan has always been famous for his blunt words. Even though Dalbeco issued an order, he still said: "Replacing isotope markers with fluorescent markers sounds good and will make the experimental results more intuitive, but it is a little troublesome. It needs to be identified and monitored by a detector. Such a detector does not exist at the moment."

"We can make detectors like this," Dalbeko said.

"kindness?"

"Narson, we hope that the total funding we applied for for the Human Genome Project is $3 billion, and we will develop a detector if the fluorescent marker makes sense."

"It is certainly meaningful to let the four bases emit four colors of light, of course, and if the detector is effective, it can save a lot of manpower. The premise is that we don't have to spend too much money to develop the detector."

Dalbeco sighed and said, "Narson, you are a genius in the laboratory, but you always don't understand the overall situation of the project. In the end, we do human genetic maps to mark the positional relationship between four bases? We have to measure 3 billion bases, so as long as the fluorescence labeling method is clear and accurate, and there is no obvious conflict, we should pay a lot of money to develop detectors and adopt an automated method. Are you right?"

"Maybe, but this person... is still a Chinese. He is not sure about this technology. He is just a hypothesis..."

"That's why you asked you to verify it." Dalbeco looked helpless.

"Okay, I'll verify it." Nathan said obviously reluctantly: "Not every beautiful idea can be verified."

"Yang Rui, also the Chinese who wrote this letter, has published a paper in CELL. He also did the PCR technology you saw before." Dalbeco stared at the content of genetics all day long, so he naturally knew Yang Rui.

Nathan is a laboratory resident, but he just frowned and went back to do the experiment. He has published five papers as the first author on CNS, and has participated in more than 15 papers as the second author and is not careful about CELL.

However, a CELL can also illustrate the problem. At least, just like Dalbeco asked, this is a hypothesis worth verifying.

Dalbeco returned to his desk and wrote a text message at his desk, sending it back to Yang Rui.

In the letter, Dalbeco said that he was willing to understand the related issues of PCR, but after two or three sentences, Dalbeco focused the content on fluorescent markers.

He wanted to learn more about fluorescent labeling, rather than PCR. Scholars may be wise men who are indifferent to money, but in academic research, scholars are still full of animals of interest.

Of course, compared to the ubiquitous power of money, academic research is weaker, and the less time they spend in their interests.

At most, these advanced scholars are involved in academic interests.

The letter was sent to China as fast as possible, and Dalbeco attached the postage for the reply with the letter.

It’s not that he is too considerate, but that he is used to communicating with scholars from third world countries in this way, reducing the communication costs of the other party, and increasing his information acquisition rate. When he reaches the Dalbeco class, it is a wise investment to do so.

In the next few days, Dalbeco, in addition to daily affairs, mainly focused on Nathan's experimental verification and waiting for Yang Rui's reply.

Doing experiments is a very bitter job, especially cutting-edge research in the world. Sometimes people are busy just by looking for available reference materials or even looking for a reference system, and they feel dizzy.

Dalbeco needs such a breakthrough, but it is impossible for him to do it all.

The Human Genome Project will be an international cooperation program, which was the case at the beginning of its design. In the future, Dalbeco hopes to see thousands or tens of thousands of people participating in this program, and his own work cannot be done by himself.

He can only find answers, splice these fragmented answers, and then win the recognition of the American academic community and Congress.

The $3 billion appropriation, even if it is not a one-time or one-year grant, is a huge project.

Dalbeco doesn't need to do it 24 hours a day, so he naturally doesn't have time to care about the belonging of a technology, let alone go to court. The only reason he replied was because Yang Rui was concerned, and he just pretended to care in exchange for Yang Rui's concern for his project.

Dalbeco waited anxiously for this concern for a long time.

Just after cursing China's postal and communication system for the third or fourth time, a thick letter was finally sent to Dalbeco Laboratory.

When Dalbeco saw this thickness, he felt suddenly enlightened. He immediately asked someone to take Nathan's experimental records and prepare to read the letters sent by Yang Rui while reading Nathan's experimental records.

At noon, Nathan learned about this while having dinner and rushed over.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Nathan entered Dalbeco's lab and saw the sandwich beside his table.

"I'm not hungry." Dalbeco threw the sandwich into the garbage can.

"Has Yang Rui sent a letter?" Nathan sat opposite Dalbeco.

"Are you interested?"

"Don't say that I'm like a racial, I just don't know anything about Asian research institutions."

"Oh, how is the experimental verification?"

"The progress is good, I have some doubts." Nathan said, looking at the letter in Dalbeco's hand.

Those who do research are not fools. If there are standard answers, they will definitely take a look first.

In fact, reading literature is a process of finding answers, at least a relative process. Some simple scientific research can often guess the final result through literature, and doing an experiment is like looking at the answer and then making up numbers.

Nathan is very interested in fluorescence labeling itself and does not think it is a challenging task. However, the answer to this experiment is very useful, and Nathan wants to see it from Yang Rui's letter.

Dalbeco handed the letter to Nathan and said, "You can read it yourself, I've finished reading it."

"After reading it, you still take it, he wrote the data in it?" Nathan suddenly realized this and hurried to read it. The basic content needed most in the laboratory is data.

Dalbeko said: "I wrote the data, but I didn't write it all."

He didn't finish the experiment either?"

"No, it's done."

"Isn't that a good thing? Let him send the paper."

"He said the paper was being written, but..." Dalbeko curled his lips and said, "You can read it yourself."

Nathan was so anxious that he had to scan down with a glance.

Seeing the end, Nathan finally found the reason: "He designed a detector and applied for a patent?"

"Yes." Dalbeco said in a muffled voice.

"Did he refuse to authorize? We are doing basic academic work..."

"He agreed to authorize, and only had a nominal $1 authorization fee."

"what is the problem?"

"He wants me to be his expert witness." Dalbeco signaled Nathan to continue watching.

Nathan then finished reading the remaining little tail and indeed saw Yang Rui's tactful request.

After understanding the whole story a little, Nathan laughed and said, "Dr. Dalbeco, the rest of the work is left to you. I hope you can get all the experimental data as soon as possible. Our group will do other work for the time being."

Dalbeco could only nod, saying that it was time-consuming to testify in court, but compared with repeated experiments in the laboratory, there are patent barriers that I don’t know if I can break through, appearing in court is a time-saving thing.

"I hate smart guys." Dalbeco threw Yang Rui's letter aside, thought for a while, picked up the phone, and said, "Find me the relevant articles on PCR, and then call Benjamin Brown Mazer Law Firm to find Benjamin, saying it was a lawsuit about PCR."

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Chapter completed!