Thanks to Fan Lei joining the lab on a 'part-time contract' basis, Liu Chengjie was also more involved in the lab work. Of course, most of his time was spent 'guiding' Fan Lei, who had just entered the lab and only had a general understanding of the work and needed much more learning and adaptation.
With everyone's effort in the lab, the project was progressing very swiftly.
By the beginning of April, the hijacking mechanism of the Vif toxic gene had a rough outline, but some detailed aspects still needed careful study.
Ai Lixin suggested creating a computer model to elaborate the whole process, and the project had moved to the stage where existing results were to be validated using a large amount of data.
They had carried out no less than thirteen validation samples to check for changes in the data.