The days following the publication of the Cell cover article, the world became very noisy.
Yang Ping's phone was bombarded daily with emails, texts, and calls from all over the world. There were reporters wanting interviews, journals requesting articles, universities inviting him to give lectures, foundations wanting to donate to him, patients seeking consultations, and companies wanting to discuss cooperation. Tang Shun spent two hours each day screening this information for him, picking out the truly important, filtering out the less important, and directly blocking those who were clearly scammers or lunatics.
But Yang Ping himself was quieter than ever; he was used to this. This wasn't the first time heavy-weight papers of his hadn't resulted in such a state.
Richardson personally called him, inviting him to deliver a keynote address at the society's annual meeting, which he declined.
