In the previous copy of 1665, the fifth-generation imidacloprid formula obtained by Xu Yun had a very conspicuous reminder:
[This is a good thing, but it is not that easy to master it].
Therefore, the entire formula is not a fool-like one-click operation guide. It just gives some directions and structural expression graphics. There are many links that Xu Yun needs to use his own hands and brain to crack - such as the previous pheromones, and the fourth to fifth generations.
Targeted binding formula between.
To put it simply...
You can't get something for nothing.
However, compared with the circular breakthrough from the third to the fourth generation, the difficulty from the fourth to the fifth generation is undoubtedly much smaller, that is, the span is relatively not that big.
The fourth generation determines the structure, and the fifth generation supplements the functions. The former is the key link in qualitative change.
Therefore, after establishing the direction that the fifth generation needed to optimize, Xu Yun assigned the next phase of tasks:
"Lao Qiu, next you will take Xiao Tang and Xiao Li to be responsible for the research and development of the same-sex attractant. Leave the derivation of the binding formula of the sodium ion channel receptor to me. We can keep in touch at any time.
There are many existing examples of homotropes in the biosphere. The key lies in blocking conformational changes in the sensing domain. The operation is not particularly difficult, so let's set a time.
There are still nine days left for the laboratory to be used, so let’s strive for six days...break through the trap within six days!"
Hearing this, Qiu Sheng looked at each other and Li Yan and others, and nodded heavily:
"Lao Xu, don't worry, just leave it to me."
After handing over the tasks in the laboratory to Qiu Sheng, Xu Yun simply packed up some materials, put on his regular clothes and left the laboratory.
All students who haven’t been mad at the biology teacher should know this.
There is a channel on the membrane of all animals that allows a small amount of Na ions to enter the cell along its electrochemical gradient, which is a sodium ion channel.
It was discovered by British scientists Hodgkin and Huxley and can be divided into two types: voltage-gated type and ligand-gated type.
Sodium ion channels are the main initiator of electrical signals in all animals, and electrical signals are the basis for the control of a series of physiological processes such as neural activity and muscle contraction.
Therefore, if we can regulate the inactivation and deactivation of insect sodium ion channels, prolong the time of transmembrane sodium ion flow, and cause nerve excitability conduction disorders, this can also accelerate the killing of insects.
According to the task assignment just now, the task of deriving the binding formula of the sodium ion channel receptor will be left to Xu Yun alone. This is not an easy task, so he plans to go to the West District Library to check some information first.
However, as soon as he left the medical center, his cell phone vibrated in his pocket.
"If I can make it before dark, I will dig out your eyes~~~"
Xu Yun took out his cell phone and looked at it. There was a number written on the caller number:
Pan Shuai.
Xu Yun was shocked when he saw this, and quickly pressed the call button:
"Director Pan, are you looking for me?"
A few seconds later, a strong male voice came from the other side of the microphone:
"Well, it's me, Xiao Xu, where are you?"
"I'm in the Central District, at the Medical Center, and I plan to go to the West District Library to check something out."
"That's a coincidence. I just came out of the Radiation Laboratory. Let's meet at the door of the library?"
"Okay, just wait a moment, I'll be there soon!"
After hanging up the phone, Xu Yun did not dare to neglect and quickly took a taxi to the West District.
More than ten minutes later, Xu Yun prepared a small bag and rushed to the door of the West District AED alone.
At this moment, a very familiar figure of Xu Yun was standing at the door of the library.
This man looked to be in his early fifties, with a kind face and bright eyes. He had a bunch of bangs slanting across his forehead from left to right, and had brown-framed eyes.
He is not tall in stature, but his back is extremely majestic.
This person is another mentor of Xu Yun, Academician Pan Shuai, the first person in quantum communication in China.
Xu Yun walked quickly to this person and said hello:
"Teacher, are you looking for me?"
"Oh, Xiao Xu is here."
Pan Shuai turned around and nodded to Xu Yun, patted his shoulder casually, stretched out his hand and pointed to the side:
"Come on, let's talk while walking."
Xu Yun followed obediently.
Perhaps because the School of Life Sciences is located here, the greening measures in the Western District of HKUST are quite complete, and you can see tree-lined paths everywhere.
Not long ago, West Lake, one of the scenic spots in the West District, introduced six black swans from the breeding base in Ludong. The natural environment is more harmonious than the other two campuses.
Xu Yun and Academician Pan just walked casually on a green path. After a while, Academician Pan started the conversation first:
"Xiao Xu, your doctoral defense should be coming soon, right?"
Xu Yun picked a dead leaf from his shoulder and replied:
"It's coming soon. It was originally scheduled for May next year, but Director Tian helped me mention March next year. Specifically, it should be mid-March."
Upon hearing this, Academician Pan nodded thoughtfully.
The defense time for domestic postgraduate students is usually December, and for full-time graduate students, it is usually in May and June. However, direct graduate students can occasionally make special exceptions and hold the defense in advance in March. He then continued to ask:
"Xiao Xu, I remember that your academic paper on biology has been published?"
Xu Yun hummed and said with a smile:
"That's right, five SCI articles were published last year, but only two were truly valuable, and one barely made it to the second area."
"That's pretty good too."
Academician Pan praised, stopped, and looked at Xu Yun seriously:
"So Xiao Xu, are you interested in helping me here in the next half year?"
"ah?"
Xu Yun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but after a long time and two lifetimes of accumulated rich scientific research experience, he instantly understood the meaning of Academician Pan's words:
"Director Pan, is the school going to do something big?"
As a graduate student in physics, it is very common for Xu Yun to be called upon by Pan Shuai or other big bosses to attack him. If it was just a simple and ordinary research topic, there was no need for Pan Shuai to ask the above questions.
Therefore, it is obvious that Pan Shuai hopes that the research project he embarks on must be a major project with astonishingly high specifications, and may even be so strict that Pan Shuai needs to come for an 'interview' in person!
Faced with Xu Yun's doubts, Pan Shuai nodded lightly:
"Yes, recently we have made some technological breakthroughs in a... well, a field, so we are ready to launch a new project."
Xu Yun glanced at him curiously:
"Director Pan, can you tell me what the project is? Of course, if even the name has to be kept secret, just pretend I didn't ask."
"It's not that serious. You can still talk about the name. After all, technology is the core."
Pan Shuai smiled and waved his hand, looking confident:
"If nothing else happens, we will conduct a fifteen-photon entanglement experiment!"
