Ray Wu, as remembered by a former student

This essay was wriitern by Jack Szostak. The original English version is here:

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11427-009-0023-6.pdf 

And the translation in Chinese can found here:

诺奖得主忆导师吴瑞：他从不与自己的学生竞争

http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2013/8/280867.shtm 

Some thoughts in this essay is very helpful:

"Far from feeling that everything had to be learned and completed in his lab, he immediately called his good friend and colleague Dr. Saran Narang, at the National Research Council of Canada. Ray and Saran arranged for me to travel to Ottawa, where I would spend two weeks getting intensive training. This was a wonderful thing to do, and a great and lasting lesson to me: one should never waste time by struggling endlessly at a difficult task when what you really need to do is to seek out the best expertise available and simply ask for help. The strategy worked, and on my return to Cornell I was able to compete the synthesis, and shortly thereafter John and I were able to radioactively label our synthetic piece of DNA and use it to detect the cytochrome c gene in yeast genomic DNA, as well as the corresponding mRNA in total RNA isolated from yeast.   "

"他并没有认为一切都要在他实验室学，他马上打电话给他的好朋友和同事、加拿大国家研究理事会的Saran Narang博士。吴教授和Saran 安排我去渥太华进行两周的强化训练。这简直太妙了，由此我也得到了一个伟大而持久的心得：当遇到困难的时候，不是无休止的自我挣扎，而是寻找最好的专家请求帮助。这个计划起作用了，当回到康奈尔时，我已经可以完成寡核苷酸的合成了。此后不久，我和约翰就能用放射物标记我们合成的DNA片段，用它在酵母基因组DNA检测细胞色素C基因，以及从酵母的总RNA中检测相应的mRNA。"

“Stop struggling and ask for help” would be a great suggestion to everyone.

Jack Szostak is smart, and he knows he was nobody as a young student.

                           
About: 杰克·绍斯塔克

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