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What is your research on?, What is your PhD in and what's it about?
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Critical_Fallacy
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Mar 19 2013, 12:15 PM
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QUOTE(PF T.J. @ Mar 18 2013, 08:30 PM) Still, my phD field involves Seaweed Biotechnology And I work on the taxonomy and phylogenetics of commercially important seaweeds (Kappaphycus and Eucheuma Sea Bird's Nests), and also on ways to increase overall production yields, whether directly or indirectly  Hello Tanji, Can I buy Eucheuma Cottonii Sea Bird's Nests at Carrefour, JUSCO, & TESCO? I want to make soup in a slow cooker for my loved ones.  By the way, do you have Soup Recipes?
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Mar 20 2013, 01:51 PM
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QUOTE(PF T.J. @ Mar 20 2013, 12:41 PM) The seaweeds are only added as extras in soups/drinks because of the good texture for "chewing"; and the main trick is to not cook them until they dissolve and become gel (much like Cincao)  Thanks for the tips and recipes! I used to cook Shark’s Fin Melon Soup 鱼翅瓜汤.
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Mar 20 2013, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE(Farmer_C @ Mar 20 2013, 03:35 PM) This reminds me of pain research where researchers inject carrageenan into the paws of mice to induce inflammation and swelling.  Gosh!  What can you tell me about food-grade carrageenan? Is Carrageenan SAFE? Can you recommend Anti-Inflammatory Diet source? According to the reports below, scientists have raised serious concerns about the safety of carrageenan in food, based on laboratory animal studies showing gastrointestinal inflammation, ulcerations and colitis-like disease in animals given food-grade carrageenan in their drinking water or diet.[1] [2] [3] [1] Tobacman JK (2001) Review of Harmful Gastrointestinal Effects of Carrageenan in Animal Experiments. Environmental Health Perspectives 109(10): 983-994 [2] Watt J and Marcus R (1981) Danger of carrageenan in foods and slimming recipes. The Lancet 317(8215): 338 [3] Watt J and Marcus R (1981) Harmful effects of carrageenan fed to animals. Cancer Detection and Prevention 4(1-4): 129-34
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Mar 21 2013, 01:47 AM
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QUOTE(Farmer_C @ Mar 20 2013, 04:02 PM) There seems to be conflicting evidence in the net. Maybe [PF] T.J. can help answer? QUOTE(PF T.J. @ Mar 20 2013, 04:03 PM) The causative compound is actually poligeenan, a breakdown product of carrageenan Thanks for clearing that up for me! And the success of medical advances depends on the frontiers of Farmer's research in the activation of adenosine receptors. By the way, have you ever heard of Exon Skipping? It is a method being heavily researched for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Recently, Lowyat Kopitiam got 1 user passed away because of DMD.
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Jul 18 2013, 04:22 PM
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QUOTE(Farmer_C @ Mar 21 2013, 01:25 PM) Congrats. So what was your research about? Could you tell me, what are the similarities between Medical Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences?
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Jul 19 2013, 02:46 PM
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QUOTE(Farmer_C @ Jul 18 2013, 07:15 PM) » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « Hmm this one's hard to answer. First, what is pharmaceutical science? It's a very broad field encompassing many disciplines... basically anything to do with drugs. Pharmaceutical scientists are people who are experts in the sciences necessary for drug discovery/development.
There are people finding new ways to synthesise drugs/enhance drug potency/reduce drug side effects via chemistry - these are your medicinal chemists.
There are people finding new ways to deliver drugs to site of interests (like cancer cells but not normal cells), new ways to improve absorption, increase brain penetration, reduce drug elimination from the kidneys - these guys are involved in formulation science, biopharmaceutics, nanotechnology, powder technology etc.
Then we have people who investigate cell signalling that may be involved in disease that can be targeted by drugs, study effects of drugs in animals/isolated organs/tissues/cells, study differential gene/protein expression before/during disease and after drug treatment, study how receptors interact with drugs - these people are involved in pharmacology, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology etc. There are people who classify themselves according to the medical field they're in eg. neuropharmacologist, neuroscientist, cardiovascular pharmacologist, immunologist and they can be involved at every level of science - from molecular biology to animal pharmacology.
In truth, scientists in academia are flexible to some extent - they use whatever techniques necessary (from mutating proteins to cannulating rat carotid arteries) to answer the questions in their research.
Biochemistry, like the name suggests, studies chemistry in the biological setting. It's somewhat related to molecular biology. Biochemistry deals with the finer details as opposed to say tissue/animal/behavioural pharmacology which studies (for example) physiological/behavioural changes after drug administration. Biochemists work with proteins, peptides, genes, metabolic substrates etc. If biochemists work in the context of drug discovery, then I don't see why they can't be called pharmaceutical scientists as well. E.g. if they are studying receptor (protein) structure-function (amino acids) relationships in the context of drug binding or maybe studying how a certain enzyme interacts with a certain substrate in a certain pathway and how to get a drug to interfere. Your deep explanation is satisfying and opens up my eyes to lots of potentials in this field.
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Feb 19 2014, 09:56 AM
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QUOTE(WK123 @ Feb 18 2014, 09:20 PM) I'm working on tsunami. Is there anyone in the similar field? Interesting! Can you post a picture of your Synthetic Tsunami?
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