Jackpot

甄試委員會：「這位同學請大概說明如果進入本所碩士班，你會想做些什麼？」
回答：「在大學三年間我在博士班學長的指導下，我參與了一些研究計畫，其中我們有發現了一個基因在很多物種之間的相似度幾乎百分之百，我想那一定是非常重要的基因，接下來我想繼續完成這樣的研究。」
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It turns out that I wasn't kidding them. I lost the chance to continue to be involved in this project and for some reason we failed to publish what we found before others did. The gene was really close to the holy grail. The protein, a ribosomal protein, was found to play an important role recruiting mRNA into ribosome. I was so close to a gold mine.