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Chapter 468 Dispute In The Editorial Department Of The Top Magazine!

After reading the paper, many team members looked shocked and raised their heads to look at the boss in disbelief.

The content of the paper is indeed so subversive, it has reached the level of subverting textbooks!

The previous academic understanding of the brain was that signals are transmitted along the synapses connecting brain cells, which is equivalent to wired communication, similar to the wired telephones on the battlefield of World War II. If you want to make a call, you must send a communications soldier to pull a wire, and the wire breaks. The call was disconnected.

But this paper points out a different way the brain works... Neuropeptides can be transported over long distances!

It seems like every brain cell can turn on Bluetooth or Star Flash to wirelessly transmit signals over long distances, and this signal is neuropeptides!

In addition, the paper even draws out the range of long-distance transmission of neuropeptides by different cells. A large number of detailed neuropeptide maps have been drawn for Caenorhabditis elegans, worms, mouse brain areas and cynomolgus monkey brain areas. Build an accurate mathematical model!

It can be said that the gold content of this paper can be divided into two or three top journal papers!

Song He smiled and said, "The result is quite scary, right? After I calculated it, I also thought it was quite scary!"

"It's scary! Our paper has a chance to be on the cover of the top issue! If such an important paper can't be on the cover, "Cell" should lose its reputation!"

"Boss, are you sure this paper is correct?" Someone raised his hand weakly, "It's so subversive!"

"Yes, boss, once this result is announced, all textbooks will have to be revised!" someone agreed.

The team members had mixed expressions, both excited and worried. Of course, there were many people who looked like idiots and had not recovered from the huge shock.

At this moment, it seemed that what everyone was holding was not a paper, but a flashbang shock bomb, which exploded and made everyone smoke.

In particular, many team members do fool's work, such as cleaning or feeding mice. It's hard not to have a psychological impact if they unknowingly produce a subversive scientific research result!

"I understand how you feel. You feel uneasy, right?" Song He laughed, "Subversive results mean that if you succeed, you will be famous all over the world. If you fail, you will become an international laughing stock. Are you worried about becoming a laughing stock?"

The team members nodded repeatedly.

"Don't worry, I'm the first author. It's really a mistake. I'll stop you from scolding!" Song He said, "This paper is just the first step. We will continue to study neuropeptides in depth. Everyone should read the paper thoroughly and prepare to start work! "

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"Cell" Editorial Department.

There are mountains of materials and books in the office, and a group of editors are sitting in front of the computer, each with thicker glasses.

The outside world speculates that the editorial staff of the top journal will be a group of old men. In fact, most of them are relatively young and middle-aged people with relatively deep professional knowledge and can handle most simple submissions.

What should you do if you encounter a very small number of extremely difficult manuscripts?

It's simple. Editors will use their personal connections and invite experienced experts in the industry over the phone to help with their work.

The editor with the thickest glasses is sitting in the corner with a majestic aura!

The wrinkles on the old lady's face are not kind, and she is even a little world-weary and irritable!

Laura Kitson, senior editor, is a former editor of The Lancet. After joining Cell for more than 20 years, she will soon be the head of this office!

There is a reason for her unkind appearance. Most of the manuscripts she reviews are junk manuscripts submitted by some ambitious scholars to try their luck. The lines are full of anti-science, plagiarism, conjecture and deception. Of course, they are clumsy fabrications. It is even more common.

It’s hard to look kind when faced with piles of academic garbage every day! Most of the articles made her want to eat people! Follow the Internet cable and eat the pheasant scholars who submitted their articles alive!

Laura took a sip of water, opened her work email, and flipped through the new manuscripts.

In just half a day, there were more than a hundred new manuscripts, which made her head feel heavy and her face became even more world-weary.

She scrolled the mouse and looked at the names of the contributors first, giving priority to the familiar academic experts, followed by newcomers, and so on.

"Song He has submitted another article!" Laura's expression suddenly changed, from cloudy to sunny.

She had an impression of Song He. He was still a young man just starting out a few months ago, but his articles were of excellent quality, and his submissions were always published and received rave reviews. What editor wouldn't like such a high-quality author?

"Prolific young man! What research are you doing this time?" A colleague from a distance raised his head and spoke with joy.

"It's... neuropeptides!" Laura's expression changed again, "No! It crashed! It crashed with yesterday's article by Jin Shunlu's team!"

The entire editorial department was immediately alarmed, and colleagues stood up one after another and came to Laura’s computer curiously.

After a brief look, everyone's faces were shocked, as if they had witnessed something terrible, and Jesus' voice kept coming and going.

“Let’s go through the process!” Laura made a decisive decision.

The editors immediately dispersed, went to the next room, and sat down at a long datewood table.

Everyone took out a small card from their pocket, with a green front and a red back, which was used to determine the feasibility of publishing the paper.

Soon, Laura appeared with a stack of printed paper papers, and each person was given two copies.

There are two papers, one is the submission of Jin Shunlu’s team yesterday, and the other is the submission of Song He’s team just now.

The editors opened the pages in unison, looked left and right with serious expressions, and compared the two papers.

"It was really a serious collision! Both copies are neuropeptide conduction routes!"

"The conclusion is the same. Neuropeptides can skip adjacent brain cells like Bluetooth and be directly transmitted to distant brain cells! The two teams came to the same research conclusion. It's not even a rear-end collision, it's a head-on collision. ah!"

“If both teams hadn’t had their own well-known achievements, people who didn’t know would have thought that one team had plagiarized the other team’s work!”

"Wait a minute, look at the mathematical modeling part!"

"Hey, both sides used Caenorhabditis elegans, but how come the modeling is different?"

"Looking back, there is a big difference! Both teams have indeed found new conduction methods of neuropeptides, but the specific mathematical explanations are completely different. One party must be wrong, or both parties are wrong!"

After a heated discussion, the editors took out their pens and wrote their opinions on the cards.

Some people write on the green side of the card, and others write on the red side of the card.

Editors who write on the green side tend to believe in the results of Song He's team.

Editors who write in red tend to believe in the results of Kim Soon-rok's team.

After all the cards were written, they were put into Laura's hands at the end of the long table.

Counting, there are five red cards and five green cards, it's a tie!

All the editors’ eyes were fixed on Laura, who still lacked her final vote.

"Laura, what do you think?"

Laura frowned in confusion and shook her head for a long time, "I can't decide. Let's each contact the neuropeptide experts we know and collect their opinions before we have a meeting to discuss!"

The editors took out their mobile phones one after another, stood up and left the conference room.

Soon, there was a lot of noisy phone calls in the newsroom.

The news spread to biologists around the world, and many brain science leaders were alarmed!

There is a small earthquake in the world of brain science!