medical road with you

Chapter 85 New Projects
What day is it today, Lu Ping tilted his head to think again, what date is it today, June, June [-]th.

ah! 6.8!Oops!
Lu Ping immediately clasped his hands together, and bowed to Tianhai three times in a row: "My husband, my lord, the little girl Lu Ping really made a big mistake and forgot your birthday. I hope you have a lot of adults. Don't get angry with the little girl. Little girl The girl is going to help you buy a cake, or if you want any birthday presents, the little girl will buy it for you."

After speaking, Lu Ping got up and went to get the phone key.

"Come back!" Tianhai grabbed Lu Ping.

Lu Ping walked in a hurry, being pulled by Tian Hai, the whole person leaned back, Tian Hai stretched out his arm, caught Lu Ping, stared at Lu Ping's panicked eyes, Tian Hai whispered: "The birthday gift I want is as long as Same."

"what?"

"you!"

"What am I?"

"The birthday present I want is you, you silly girl!" Tian Hai held his forehead helplessly, his wife knows nothing else, and is the number one expert at destroying the atmosphere.

"oh oh!!!!"

It was only after the second one that Lu Ping really understood.

After thinking about it, Lu Ping stood up straight and cleared his throat: "In that case, I'll make a sacrifice!"

Tianhai stared at Lu Ping with a sly look in his eyes: "However, I have conditions. No matter what request I make today, you have to agree to me."

Now, the corners of Lu Ping's eyes twitched, and he finally decided to die generously: "Okay!"

As soon as the words fell, Lu Ping vacated.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Lu Ping thumped Tianhai who was holding her up a few times.

"Let's take a shower together." Tianhai spit out four words.

Um. . .All right.

. . .

"Have you seen enough?"

"no!"

. . .

"Have you touched enough?"

"no!"

. . .

"Ok?"

. . .

I don't know how long it took and how many questions he asked, Tianhai finally let her go, wrapped her in pajamas and carried her out of the bathroom!
"Honey, you're so pretty!" When putting her down, Tian Hai whispered in her ear!
"You..." Lu Ping blushed with shame, but didn't know what to say, so he pulled the quilt abruptly and covered his head.

Tianhai was also really tired, so he lay down next to Lu Ping, and patted her through the quilt: "Okay, good boy, go to sleep."

Lu Ping leaned closer to Tianhai's ear and blew softly into his ear: "Husband, happy birthday!"

After speaking, Lu Ping got up and went down.
"What are you going to do?" Tianhai asked with sleepiness.

"You go to bed first, I'll check the information later!"

Tianhai couldn't help but patted his forehead. It seemed that his wife was really passionate about scientific research.

Just after taking a shower, Lu Ping was only wearing pajamas again, and soon, he sneezed.

"No, you'll catch a cold down there, come up quickly!"

"I'll be fine soon,"

"Hey, come up quickly and use my notebook to check."

Because a large amount of data calculations are required, Tianhai's notebook is equipped with a top-level CPU and memory, and Tianhai's baby is usually amazing.Once, Lu Ping accidentally dropped a drop of water on the keyboard, and Tianhai was so nervous that he wiped it with paper and blown it with a hair dryer.

"Are you willing to let me use your precious notebook?" Lu Ping asked Tianhai with a smile blinking his eyes.

"Willing." Tianhai shook his head helplessly: "You are my biggest treasure, how could I not be willing to use it for you!"

**
When Lu Ping arrived at the laboratory the next morning, Yue Jin was already there.

As soon as he raised his head, Lu Ping was startled: "Brother Yue, did you stay up late again last night?"

The two dark circles under the eyes of Yue Jin seemed to be punched hard by someone, and then he painted thick smoky makeup.

However, after thinking about it, it's not right, only one sample was left untested yesterday, and it will only take three hours at most, and you can get off work after nine o'clock.

Yue Jin quickly explained: "Isn't this because I'm a little excited about having a new research direction? Last night, I checked the information on the Internet." Having said this, Yue Jin's face darkened: "Lu Ping, your idea is very different. Not bad, but someone has already done it."

"What information did you find?" Lu Ping asked quickly.

Last night, Lu Ping was dragged to sleep by Tian Hai after a simple search.

"Come and take a look." Yuejin opened a paper, "On Rapid PCR of Viral Genes"

Lu Ping spent half an hour reading it carefully, and then began to close his eyes and concentrate.

Yue Jin was still waiting for Lu Ping to express his opinion, but Lu Ping was meditating there, closing his eyes and repairing, Yue Jin didn't know what to do.

Could it be that he really gave up on this subject?The more I think about it, the more I feel uncomfortable.
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"Brother Yue." Lu Ping suddenly opened his eyes: "This paper has already done what we want to do, but it doesn't mean we have nothing to do?"
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"How to say?"
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"We can do rapid PCR of RNA virus genes."
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"RNA virus?"
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"Yes, the focus of this paper is on DNA viruses, so let's change the direction and make RNA viruses."

"However, where do we get so many samples of RNA viruses?"

Having said that, Yuejin began to encounter difficulties.

In the past, Song Tianwen made money by doing PCR for others, so samples were inexhaustible, but now. . .

"Then we can only find Teacher Song and ask him to apply to the school." This is the only way Lu Ping can think of at present.

"Okay, let's go to Teacher Song tomorrow. Today, let's look up the information first. If you don't want to go in this direction, others have done it."

"it is good!"

Lu Ping and Yue Jin searched the various literature databases for a morning, and finally confirmed that no one had done the same research. Knowing that Song Tianwen never stayed in the office in the afternoon, Yue Jin didn't go to him. After discussing it, the two decided to study it first. About RT-PCR technology.

Compared with PCR, RT-PCR has one more process of reverse transcription of RNA into DNA. Although there is only one more step, the reaction process is much more complicated.

Lu Ping and Yue Jin studied for an afternoon, and finally understood the general steps.

The next day, Yue went in to find Song Tianwen to apply for a sample. Surprisingly, the process went very smoothly.

Seeing Yue Jin come in with a box of reagents, Lu Ping asked, "What are you holding?"

"Coronavirus sample."

"You got it so smoothly?" Lu Ping was surprised.

"Didn't there be an epidemic in the past few years? Our college has also carried out related research. For this purpose, we purchased a large number of coronavirus samples. These are leftovers from that year. I don't know if they are still active. We can test them later. one time."

****Virus?Lu Ping's heart suddenly tugged.

It has been so many years, and Lu Ping's medical dream is firmly in her heart, but because the time is too long, she has forgotten the origin of the dream.

"This is the **** virus?" Lu Ping asked tremblingly.

"Of course not!" Yue Jin replied with a smile: "That highly contagious virus is now kept in a special laboratory with a very high security system. What I have in my hand is an ordinary coronavirus, which is not pathogenic. It is used for comparative research."

"Oh, that's it, then what are we waiting for, let's start quickly."

At six o'clock in the evening, when Tianhai came to pick up Lu Ping, he clearly noticed that her mood was different from usual.

"What's the matter, did something unpleasant happen?" Tianhai asked.

"Tianhai, I haven't paid homage to my father for a long time, I want to visit him!"

"Okay." Tianhai didn't ask too much.

With that said, Tianhai turned the car in another direction.

Today, it is June, the days are long, and now, the sun is still high.

This is the first time Lu Ping has brought Tianhai to pay homage to Lu Jun after his marriage.

"Dad, this is Jiang Tianhai. I married him. He is the best husband in the world. Dad, you can rest assured now that Pingping is taken care of by someone!"

Tianhai didn't expect Lu Ping's first sentence to be this, he was slightly taken aback, didn't say anything, just held Lu Ping's hand tightly.

"Dad, now Pingping has been admitted to Huada Medical School, and is now a graduate student studying viruses, the culprit who killed you back then."

"Of course, I'm not skilled enough to come into contact with the virus that killed you back then, but I met its relative today, the common coronavirus. It's really small, and it's still small when you magnify it a thousand times. A little bit, but, they are really stubborn. Frozen for several years and still alive. Dad, don’t worry, one day, I will find the ultimate weapon against this kind of thing.”

Tianhai stood aside and looked at Lu Ping silently, his eyes became deeper and more complicated.

Viruses have been studied by humans for almost 100 years, but to this day, they are still the most troublesome pathogens for humans.

Does the ultimate weapon against it exist? I don't know. Even if it exists, is it really possible for Lu Ping to find it?

Tianhai didn't know, but he knew what he should do, which was to stay by her side silently, take care of her, and support her.

**
Recently, no matter whether it is Lu Ping or Yue Jin, both of them are full of energy as if they have been beaten with chicken blood.

Design primers, extract RNA, adjust reagent concentration, test reaction temperature, observe and record data.

Over and over again, the two experimented repeatedly.

In fact, scientific research is sometimes really boring. It just keeps testing over and over again. Sometimes just to verify whether it is necessary to fine-tune the reaction temperature, you have to redo the entire experiment from beginning to end, and the whole process takes about two hours. more than an hour.

Scientific research consumes people's patience, perseverance, and carefulness.

"Hey, senior brother, look what this is," Lu Ping asked, pointing to a faint fluorescent light in a very remote position of the spectrum viewer.

Yue Jin took a look: "This is not the normal position, maybe the specimen is contaminated, let's do it again."

Yue Jin didn't take it seriously, and started preparing for the next round of experiments.

After thinking about it, Lu Ping put away the remaining samples and recorded a piece of data.

In this experiment, they fine-tuned the RNA reverse transcriptase. As a result, instead of getting the expected amplified fragment, they got a piece of something unknown.

If you have time, you can test the base sequence of these products, Lu Ping thought of looking at the remaining samples, and sent this experiment record.

Unexpectedly, this incident was put on hold for several months, and Lu Ping didn't think about it until Lu Ping and Yue Jin's experiment was completely successful.

From July to December, Lu Ping and Yue Jin were busy for almost half a year, and finally made some progress.

The current popular RT-PCR generally takes two hours, but the process designed by Lu Ping and the others takes one and a half hours, which is shortened by half an hour, which is a great improvement for a commonly used technology.

On the same day, Yue Jin and Lu Ping went to Song Tianwen with the experimental results.

"Okay, very good!" Song Tianwen was also very satisfied with the result: "You can start writing your thesis!"

Now, Yuejin is already in the third year of research. He couldn't wait to publish his thesis, so he quickly threw himself into the writing process of the thesis.

After writing down the big title, Yue Jin asked Lu Ping excitedly: "Junior Sister, this is your first time writing a thesis. How is it? Are you excited?"

Lu Ping seemed very calm: "Fortunately, I have published papers before."

"Have you published papers before? Which journal?" Yue Jin was a little surprised.

"cell."

"Sage?" Yue Jin thought about it carefully: "It seems that there is no such magazine in China."

"It's the Cell magazine under Elsevier USA." Lu Ping was still very calm.

"What?" Yuejin stood up in surprise, "Could you be talking about the cell with the same name as "Nature" and "Science?"

"Yes!"

Yue Jin slumped on the chair directly: "Junior Sister, you said that if you had saved that thesis until your graduate student published it, you would have been able to apply for early graduation!"

Graduating from graduate school has become Yuejin's biggest goal at present.

Lu Ping smiled and said, "No, my article was about thyroid tumors, and my current major is viruses."

"Junior Sister, you are so stupid!" Yue Jin was a bit annoyed: "You have such a good article, you can change your professional direction!"

This time, Lu Ping became serious instead: "No, my favorite research direction is only viruses."

Yue Jin felt that Lu Ping was still too naive: "Junior Sister, why do you think that everyone is going to graduate school now, in order to have a better education and find a job. As for the research direction, who cares about you, the job you find after graduation is the same as the research direction. How many more are there?"

"No, I will always study viruses."

Yue Jin shook his head: "Then have you ever thought about where you continue to study viruses? Are you at Huada University? Do you continue to follow Song Tianwen? Do you think you can achieve any good results by following Song Tianwen?"

This time, Lu Ping didn't know how to answer.

Yue Jin is a very practical person, and he thought of another thing: "By the way, junior sister, you have passed the medical examination."

After the first year of research, he can pass the exam for a practicing doctor. Doesn't his silly younger sister think that if she doesn't become a clinician in the future, she won't go for the exam.

"Oh, I passed the exam."

Every year, the exams for licensed doctors are held in August, and that time was the busiest time for Yue Jin and Lu Ping. ah."

If you are not prepared to go directly to the exam, even if you pass, you probably just barely pass the line.

"513." Lu Ping reported a number.

"What!" If Yue Jin was wearing glasses at this time, his eyes must have fallen to the ground at this time.

The full score of the medical practitioner examination is 600, and generally 360 points are enough to pass. Lu Ping is 150 points more than the passing line.

"Junior Sister, you are really an out-and-out academic master!"

"Senior brother, you've won the prize!" Lu Ping finally felt a little embarrassed.

"I can't compare, I can't compare, junior sister, look at you, you have already settled the major events in your life, and you are so outstanding in your studies. Comparing with you, I will be pissed to death. Forget it, don't compare, I'd better concentrate Go write a thesis!"

Koshishin sat down and began to write his thesis again.

Lu Ping originally wanted to discuss with Yue Jin the issue of author ranking, but after thinking about it, forget it.

She has already checked, and it seems that it is possible to be the first author. In this way, both Yuejin and she have completed their graduate thesis.

(End of this chapter)