Can you beleive that? Reporter gene imaging!

I was swayed away knowing about human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) when I was in high school and I think its discovery has dramatically increased the tools available to medical scientists interested in regenerative medicine, however, as we know that things don't seem to be that easy, the direct injection of hESCs, and cells differentiated from hESCs, into living organisms has far been hampered by significant cell death, teratoma formation, and host immune rejection. Understanding the in vivo hESC behavior after transplantation requires novel imaging techniques to longitudinally monitor hESC localization, proliferation, and viability.

I found this amazing 10 minutes video clip from Stanford University School of Medicine in which they shown how in each stem cell, transcription and translation of luciferase into bioactive light-emitter was detected with sensitive, noninvasive instrumentation (CCD cameras from Caliper) directly in alive, sleeping animals.

What more? Just enjoy watching that wonderful clip!

dignity

There are few people
who are so quite
that we have to stop and dig deep
in their eyes
to hear their pain

Science goes gaming!! Well, it is a game!

I just saw a remarkable take on an age-old problem: Protein Folding.
David Baker at the University of Washington converted the problem of protein folding into an interactive game that we can play. Just imagine!! A game!! Check it out at Fold.it (currently beeing /. to death)

Smart they! They’re actually trying to train us like a neural network of sorts- first we learn to fold known protein structures, and then the group will release new “puzzles” of unknown or unreleased structures and see how the the borg collective does against other folding projects .

PhD comics

This SITE is dedicated to all those people who wana be a BOFFIN like moi

Suicidal thoughts!

Have u ever felt that you didn't fit in?! Like you are a stranger in this world? Feared death yet longed for it soo much?? IS death really the answer? Some people who commit suicide think by doing that their horrible life is over. Suicide is not the answer I know

PS: Bemused? don't be! 'Well, that was just a thought. you know...

maturity?

I've been told that I'm older than my age. Umm... may be that my experiences in life have made me more mature than most people my age. Don't know if that is a good thing. Huh? I've also been told that I could be too nice and trusting that gives out the impression that I'm "childish" or " immature"LOL. hmmm... make up your mind people?!?!

Well i know what I am. I am mature enough to sit there with a 40/50/ 60 year with no problem having a deep meaningful conversation. Childish enough to spend hours playing with kids and making all sorts of goofy noises. teehheee

What does maturity mean?
It only means that you are now acting MORE aware of how crappy life is!! After that realization of the abundance of deception, cruelty, backstabbing, selfishness, immorality, destruction, fakeness, poverty, jealousy, greed.. etc..etc. Its hard to be gullible, trusting, positive and all those braidy bunch & legally blonde feelings!

You realize how stupid you were thinking life was simple. A nice bed time story no longer makes the "monsters" go away. A chocolate bar doesn't heal or fix what the years have broken. A good friend could also end up being a GREAT enemy. Happiness is no longer based on watching cartoons like "powerpuff girls", "peter pan", " snow white", "KND" etc

Is it part of growing up that we get sick of things easily?! Why are we so hard to please now?! Why is it the older we get the more we feel the old days were much better!?!?!

I always said I would never change no matter what experiences I go through but even ROCKS are worn out by the continuous water flow. I have changed somehow.Umm.. well, we all change in the cycle of life. I hope I did to the better. But all i just hope i never forget how to have fun and appreciate the simple things in life cause that would simply be DEPRESSING! *sigh*

I am right here!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. Been kind of busy. But well, the less I blog the more things I feel I need to blog about!

I was wondering about how carried we humans are. I mean, you know how sometimes you are in a situation and someone says or does something and you say something like " i CANT BELIEVE HE/SHE DID THAT?" or " If I was in her place I would never DO THAT?"And we tend to get a bit judgmental when we compare ourselves to others and we get carried away with our judgments not realizing that they are nothing but false accusations we base on our reference to ourselves and our experiences.

We have to realize that we are all different. Not even two people in this WHOLE world are exactly the same. We might agree more with some people, disagree with others, want to avoid a few because they GET ON YOUR NERVES! LOL, technically right!

BUT we also might find a lot in common with someone and when we do meet that person we feel is our "LONG LOST TWIN". We tend to assume they are like us in every way. When in reality they are THEM and YOU are YOU.

Not ONE person is like you in EVERY single way and knowing that we should ACCEPT that different people react differently and ACCEPT people for who they are instead of trying to turn them into YOU!

And just because someone doesn't react like you doesn't mean they are wrong. Doesn't even mean you are wrong! It just means you are different. Umm, different yet normal!

And speaking of normal. Well, what is normal ? A normal reaction? I feel that there is no such thing as "normal". The definition of normal nowadays is what is COMMON and as soon as someone decides to go against the tide or be unique or original, they are seen as abnormal or weird! Oh wait, I didn't end yet! plus being NORMAL IS OVERRATED!!! Boooo!!

I'd rather be SPECIAL, not the special that is thrown in mental hospitals though LOL

Anyway, the point is. Each person is different and expresses themselves differently. A poet could write a poem, a singer could sing a song, a painter could paint you a portrait, but just because they are talented and have the gift of expressing themselves in better ways, doesn't make their love stronger or deeper or more real!!

PS: There is no correlation to be drawn between the picture and the blog. LOL! I have just kept that one 'cause I found it good to look at. :P

Am sick

Am SICK again!! Again!?!?!

Hell! Whats wrong with me?

I curse myself for this. It is really a terrible thing to fall sick, especially during vacations!

I would really appreciate a new body right now. A new nose and throat was what I thought of having once, it is better to get a whole new body once for all. Am I not gona get any discount for that? eh? This one has been worn out! Seriously! I cant hold myself sniffing and sneezing, rolling up my tongue to scratch my sorey throat and palate. Ouch! my aching soul, the feverish chills!! (And, why am I typing so many exclamations today? ergh!)

The day however started well, as I went for shopping today. Oh no! not the girly shopping phuleaaseee?!? That was supposedly a footpath book shopping. LOL! confused? Anyway, I bought bunch of 3 books. Don't ask me what books, because you surely wouldn't like it. Ah! academic books! huh!

Thanks to the books I shopped today, I'm somehow trying to subside my mind. But this isn't working after all; I can't BREATH when I sit in any position and all this while I have drenched my lovely books by spraying snot all over them!

I hate it!

Oscar Wilde said, "Each man kills the thing he loves."

And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the sufferings we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.
~Paulo Coelho

I know I have been doing this all my life so far. But now, I don't want to kill the feelings I have within, 'cause I know, if I kill them, I might kill myself thereof!