Chapter 2594 Skilled Hand

The others found it even more unbelievable after hearing him say: "Are you saying Dr. Mu’s research is unrelated to heart transplants?"

Don’t assume that just because a boss performs many surgeries, they have to conduct research related to those specific surgeries. Bosses have numerous research projects; it’s never just one. They have many interests, so you can’t simply judge their preferences, focus, or expertise based on a few award notices.

Student Duan’s criticism is valid. They’ve only interacted with Dr. Mu Yongxian a few times and are not in the same department, so they have little understanding and can’t randomly speculate on a boss’s research direction.

Let’s return to the batch of mouse models Student Duan is researching. If you look at the literature, you’ll find that such model research has been overdone for ages. From the first invention to now, it’s been developed for decades, with researchers exhausting nearly all possible studies. Student Duan’s choice of a cliché topic is purely because he’s a student, who naturally starts with the simplest academic subjects, focusing on learning the complete research process. Furthermore, no matter how overdone something is, as long as experimenters have new inspiration, old models can be refreshed with new approaches. Otherwise, this old model wouldn’t still have researchers tirelessly working on it.

Student Duan has set new model parameters within this old model. This is the student’s research secret. Student Duan is a top student, and the new experimental setup is unlikely to be ordinary. Based on the hints unintentionally revealed before, the experiment faced unexpected issues and requires a plan B.

In designing the experiment process, you must set backup plans early on. If plan A fails, plans B, C, D, etc. are used until success is achieved. Success is essential; failing means you can’t graduate.

Several students thought of this and felt the considerable pressure that top students in Guodu bear.

Duan Sanbao’s round eyes gazed at his experimental animals in the cage with some parental anxiety in his eyes. When the "children" fail to deliver results, parents are eager enough to push them to grow.

Other students might avoid communication, but Duan Sanbao is willing to exchange academic thoughts with one student, unsurprisingly, Student Duan.

When other students had wandered off out of boredom to other areas, Duan Sanbao seized the opportunity to ask Student Xie for her opinion: "Do you think there’s anything that needs improvement? Where might the problem occur?"

Doctor Duan’s question was vague, treating her like an oracle who knows everything. Xie Wanying’s face showed a mix of helplessness and amusement: "Doctor Duan, I don’t know if you made any genetic preparations for the mice in advance."

Student Xie claims she’s not smart and doesn’t know, yet her guess is almost the real answer. Duan Sanbao remarked, "No wonder my cousins think you’d be brilliant in research."

From what he observes and hears, several boss cousins are keen to recruit her into research projects.

He got down to serious academic discussion with her: "To be honest, I’m using transgenic mice."

What’s the difference between mice and rats? Mice are more expensive for a reason. Mice have a clearer genetic background than rats and relatively higher homology with humans; transgenic and gene-knockout animals are mostly mice.