The 688th chapter accepts the challenge (1)
Facing Shen Guanglin's declaration, everyone was stunned.
For a moment, everyone held their breath, no one said anything, and they watched Shen Guanglin show off in silence.
In real history, someone actually did this.
That was Citigroup's instrument giant PE Systems. They hired biologists to form their own project team, and sure enough, they completed the sequencing work ahead of the international gene sequencing team.
Moreover, the entire project only cost 300 million U.S. dollars, which is far from the 3 billion U.S. dollars planned by international organizations.
After this battle, they became famous and gained both fame and fortune.
Not only has he successfully gained fame, but he has also reaped continuous benefits.
Seeing Watson reject his request for outsourcing, Shen Guanglin also came up with this idea.
What happened to the International Biological Organization? Now that I have money and leisure, I can definitely fight.
Shen Guanglin's brain works extremely fast, which does him no harm at all. He is stepping on the international biology team to reach the top.
Such an opportunity may not come once in ten years.
Moreover, I will not suffer any loss at all. After all, the PCR instrument, the main testing equipment, is manufactured by myself. Competing with international organizations for scientific research can also promote the sales of this instrument.
This is two times of money...
Now, Shen Guanglin proposed that he would bypass international biological organizations and conduct human gene sequencing alone. After everyone heard this, they always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell them.
Technically speaking, no one can deny that his laboratory's technical strength is not good.
After all, his laboratory has successfully researched targeted therapeutic drugs through genetic technology, which is the purpose of the Human Genome Project.
At the beginning, Dabelko relied on Shen Guanglin's example to persuade Citigroup to establish this project team, but he did not expect that Watson would become the leader after the project was established.
What Dabelko never expected was that Shen Guanglin would challenge this project alone.
This is how people have a broad mind.
Technically speaking, there is nothing wrong with Shen Guanglin's laboratory.
What about funding? Will anyone donate to him?
Is there really someone who wants to go against the world's biological community?
It’s really hard to say.
Although Shen Guanglin's laboratory has not been established for a long time, it is already a world-renowned laboratory.
In his laboratory, what is as famous as R&D efficiency is their fundraising ability.
This makes many laboratories envious. Among other things, even Watson's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory relies on government funding.
However, people all over the world have long known that all the funds for the Shen Guanglin Laboratory are obtained through donations. It has never received a penny from the government, and has never undertaken any of the government's projects. Title project.
After all, people have this hard power, and there are always some inexplicable big shots willing to donate money.
For example, what should you do if a big boss is interested in some scientific research fields and wants to make a breakthrough in some area, but cannot find a direction?
It doesn't matter, just donate money to Dongfang Shen's laboratory!
Maybe they really set up a project team in this area.
As long as the money is available, anything is possible.
An unknown source even said that someone donated money to Shen Guanglin's laboratory to develop the elixir of life.
At present, football scarcity is one of the developments.
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The study of telomeres is also one of the important developments.
In fact, they have achieved results.
The anti-aging effect of football serum is still very significant. Since using this product, many women have been able to save their aging appearance.
Now, the Football Club project has made a profit, and Takeda is very satisfied.
Therefore, it shouldn’t be a big problem to find them to continue raising some money.
Shen Guanglin has always been a quick shooter. The project development speed of Shen Guanglin's laboratory is extremely fast, sometimes even completely ignoring that his peers have been researching for three to five years.
They didn't care about their first-mover advantage at all, they intervened when they were told, and they promised fair scientific research competition. As a result, Shen Guanglin's laboratory suddenly produced results.
Moreover, everyone is busy. Seeing that Shen Guanglin's laboratory has intervened, hurry up and register the phased results to avoid losing everything.
When they actually registered, they found that Shen Guanglin Laboratory had already registered the results.
So fast!
Even if Shen Guanglin's laboratory is involved in a relatively large research project, half a year is already a long time.
If it lasts longer than this point, it's hard to say that they are ready to give up.
Feeling that it might not be too difficult for Shen Guanglin's laboratory to raise funds, some people immediately questioned the project itself: If you do this, will it be profitable in the future?
Of course it can be profitable.
Shen Guanglin talked about a common routine in later generations: as long as we have a database of human genes, we can conduct genetic testing and screening of individuals. In this way, we can predict the occurrence of diseases.
For example, a large number of genetic diseases such as breast cancer, coagulopathy, fibrous cysts, and liver diseases can be predicted through genetic testing.
Just imagine, you have a family history of hereditary disease. Don’t you want to test the genetic status in your body? Will you get sick recently? How can you prevent it? Are you really not curious at all?
Moreover, Shen Guanglin also said that the cost of testing does not need to be expensive, after all, there are follow-up treatment plans waiting.
There are so many people in the world, and there is not much pressure to make a profit.
What to do next? Everyone is a bit at a loss as to whether to continue this meeting.
"So, you can now consider outsourcing the entire project to our laboratory. I can take a step back. Maybe we can complete the entire sequencing work with only $400 million."
This is Shen Guanglin's original intention. It would be great if he could take over the work directly, thus saving manpower and material resources.
However, Shen Guanglin said these words in vain. Watson also had a hard time winning the leadership position and could not give it up.
Moreover, the Human Genome Project is an international organization, so it is naturally impossible to compromise with individuals.
At this time, some people took the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with Shen Guanglin. They even felt that the boy who was promised to slay the dragon seemed to have grown into an evil dragon.
Shen Guanglin himself also thought that being so strong might have a negative impact on his reputation.
In order to make up for the losses, he repeatedly emphasized to the media: Human genetic data is the common wealth of all mankind, and the data we measure will not be patented, but will be shared openly with the world.
That's what he said, but Watson stood on the stage and announced the task allocation plan as if he hadn't heard Shen Guanglin's declaration.
How much money does Citi pay to test how many genes? How much money does England pay to test how many genes?
This was discussed before the meeting, and this was just a matter of script.
There is no way, he can't really hand over this project plan to Shen Guanglin's laboratory for execution. What's the use of him?
Moreover, Watson himself is the person in charge of Cold Spring Harbor and is confident that the strength of his laboratory may not be worse than that of Shen Guanglin Laboratory.
We can fight!
Chapter completed!