就施一公等的科研，还有英文报道，其中还引用因剪接体发现而获得诺贝尔奖的美国夏普博士（Dr. Phillip A Sharp）发给施一公的电子邮件而猛搞吹捧，其原文如下：

Tsinghua biologists solve genetic puzzle.
China Daily， 2015-08-24 09:37
连接：http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-08/24/content_21684652.htm
"The structure of the spliceosome represents a much greater challenge than the structure of the ribosome， for which three individuals in the past were awarded the Nobel Prize，" Phillip Sharp， a 1993 Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine， said in an e-mail to Shi， which the university released to China Daily.
"The structure of the spliceosome was solved completely by Chinese scientists using state-of-the-art technologies，" he said. "It's a milestone achievement in Chinese life sciences， and it will encourage the next generation to enter the field and target the most challenging and highest-impact projects with the knowledge that Shi Yigong's laboratory took on an impossible challenge and succeeded on a world stage." （摘录完）。

就此，我给夏普博士发函，把中英文报道发给他、并向他提了一些问题。 夏普博士给我做了答复，邮件原文如下（为防止垃圾邮件，信箱地址做了隐蔽处理）：

From: Phillip A Sharp <xxxxxxxx@mit.edu>.
Wed 9/23/2015 8:26 AM.

Dear Zhiyan，
Below is my exact statement concerning the beautiful papers by Yigong. They were sent on August 22nd and I have made no further comments since then and will have no further comments.
Phil #

Dear Yipong，
Thank you for sending copies of the two exciting papers. The models of the structure of the spliceosome and its catalytic core are very provocative and represent a breakthrough in research on RNA splicing. I was not sure that we would ever see the structure of the spliceosome in its active state given the complexity of the proteins and RNAs that form it. Cryo-EM， commitment and creative thought as demonstrated in these papers are equal to the task.
Congratulations on this amazing advance!
Phillip Sharp （夏普邮件原文完）。