boyzone if we try

Today listen a good music and woud like to share here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbIzgcQw1g

"If We Try"

You've been walkin around starin into space
Carryin a load like a heavy case
When it's not enough
It's not enough

And all the beautiful things that you used to love
Taking walks in the rain and all that stuff
When it was enough
It was enough

Oh hey!
Here's a little invitation
Time to have a little conversation

If we try
We might just find
We can fly
If we try

Caught you lookin in the mirror, lookin back at me
There's a truth in your eyes only I can see
When you're still in love
You're still in love

With a bottle of red, knowing me and you
We can work it out in a glass or two
Maybe there's enough
There's enough

Oh hey!
Here's a little invitation
Time to have a little conversation

If we try
We might just find
We can fly
If we try

Hey!
Here's a little invitation
Time to have a little conversation

Have a life, have a love
And I feel like I'm going home
Have a life, have a love
And I feel like I'm going home

If we try
We might just find
We can fly
If we try

If we try [x4]

UM, what the fuck?

University of Malaya, I hate you....

why you always cast a shadow in my heart?

why you dont have talented person?

why you do not have patience?


I love research ya....but you blow off all my dream...

You are my biggest mistake...

where got such a university who do not get student graduate, but only like paper and name?

I do research for human kindness, you do it for wat?????


I sure will come back to close you...you are malaysia shame....


stupid univerisyt...I hate you. 

Why you should not go to University of Malaya(UM) studying postgraduate

I am student who studying master in University of Malaya (UM) for many years, but end up without not certificate.

When you want to go UM, let me share with you some experience.
1. IN UM, there is not education at all when you study the postgraduate, what a pity, so big university, not expert you can find.

2. Only paper printer is wanted. so many research position open, but nobody guide. what if the university only treat it as a paper generator, rather than want you to be better.

3. the bureacratic system, and malfuction, ten years, my senior and then mine, we all make a wrong decision to study postgraduate in UM. THat is the worst decision i make in my life, end up i quit research. I can work in the lab more than 12hours, but if nobody appreciate it, what for?

4. nobody want to take responsibility. Irresposiiblity is the UM biggest problem, the on board always say everything can discuss, but end up nobody to execute it, then it only blank paper.

5. the most important reason why you should not go. UM do not have dream. set to go into the top 100 university ranking is a stupid idea. Research is to make world better, not to use it for personal profit and name tools. but i think UM will never realize it. This type of university, if i am examiner, i sure will ban it from participating.

If you are talented person, do not go UM.
1. UM can give you money, resources, but you never find someone are hardworking and willing to pay the effort , they just want the name

2. when the first day i enter in, my supervisor say i think you are good at research. When i cannot publish paper as they wish, everyone tell me "I think you are not suitable to be a research", that is the ultimate reason i leave UM, and swear never go UM again .

3. in UM, first class people always suffer. those who are lazy but know how to pretend, everyday lunch time eat more than 2 hours, one day works only 5 hours as research assistant, what the hell you expect good research outcome from such kind of ppl.

4. I once go to singapore NTU to visit,if you want to get the thing done, they will reply you within one day. In UM, the personnel in charge will never give you a confirmation answer, like i receive a email from a stuff, can you please be patient with us?
what the worse is my supervisor even ask me to give them some time, else they will not going to entertain you anymore.
What the hell is this kind of environment, as admin, you are expect to handle every case seriously, but see what the stuff reply?i even be forced to find another department, then department ask me to refer back to the IPS office. as IPS, you should be able to control everything, what the hell you ask me to consult other department.


5.UM is worse than the hell. here, everybody treat you like you should be able to publish as much as you can, but they do not know what you should publish.they only know how to force you to go and give you a rubbish word instead of support.

if you are someone who want to make big thing, and you are after 1990, i suggest you go other place rather than UM. I do not want your generation to suffer like me,i wish you all the best.

How to Grow New Organs

Pioneers in building living tissue report important advances over the past decade

By Ali Khademhosseini, Joseph P. Vacanti and Robert Langer   

the original website: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-grow-new-organs

Key Concepts

• Efforts to build living tissue replacements have progressed over the past decade, and some simple engineered tissues are already used in humans.
• Advances have come from a greater understanding of cell behavior and sophisticated new building materials.
• More tissue-engineered products are close to commercial readiness but must undergo the complex regulatory scrutiny given to living materials.

traveller: 

if it is  a dream,then we should work up together to realize the dream,biomedical engineer, you still have a chance to change the world 

Bone Marrow transplant,future for AIDS cure?

Bone marrow transplant muffles HIV

from nature.com

Abstract

An HIV-positive subject who received a bone marrow transplant for leukemia showed no evidence of the virus in his bloodstream after 20 months of follow-up, according to a report by Gero H|[uuml]|tter et al.. In a rare and lucky match-up, his donor was not only compatible but also homozygous for mutations in the HIV receptor CCR5 that result in resistance to HIV infection.

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traveller : THiKIng out of box ..

If Bone Marrow transplant can stop temporarily for cancer, can we use stem cell to cure AIDS ?i hope as a biomedical engineer in the future ,we can work for it.AIDS ,we swear to overcome you in the 21st century .

for our future ,also for the world's future..

Inventory of biomedical engineering

Our future job ,but dont wait,see the article and keep moving.

"Bionic" eye restores vision after three decades of darkness(from scienceAmerican.com)

When vision fails, it's often the result of damage to the eye caused by an injury or degenerative disease. In an attempt to restore such vision loss, researchers for more than a decade have been working to develop an optical prosthetic that can restore sight by delivering images directly to the brain. And it appears they succeeded. The BBC reports that a 73-year-old man identified only as Ron, who received an optical implant at Moorefields Eye Center in London last summer, can see again for the first time in 30 years.

The BBC hails the Argus II prosthetic—made by Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., in Sylmar, Calif.—as a "bionic eye," although it's actually a wireless communication system implanted in the damaged eye that captures images and relays them to the brain.

The system works with the aid of eyeglasses, which hold a camera mounted on one of the lenses that captures images and sends the information to a video processor, also located on the glasses, according to the description of the technology on Second Sight's Web site. After the video processor converts the images to an electronic signal, a transmitter on the glasses sends that information wirelessly to a receiver attached to the surface of the eye. From there, the information is sent through a tiny cable to an electrode array implanted in the retina, stimulating it to emit electrical pulses. These pulses trigger signals in the retina that travel through the optic nerve to the brain, which perceives patterns of light and dark spots that correspond to the electrodes stimulated.

In addition to Ron, 17 other patients in the U.S., Europe and Mexico are trying out the Argus II system to see if it's safe and effective in restoring at least partial vision to people suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a genetic eye disease that causes blindness. Preliminary results indicate that there were no device failures and few "serious adverse events," the most serious of which resulted in the removal of an implant without difficulty or harm to the individual, the company reported in November. Eleven of the study participants reported that they could locate a door up to 20 feet (six meters) away and see and walk to the end of a 20 -foot line drawn on the floor with the aid of the implant.

Other researchers are also working on prostheses designed to help the blind see again. John Pezaris, a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School, is developing one that would use electrical microstimulation in the thalamus (a dual lobed mass of grey matter cells at the top of the brainstem that receives visual sensory images) to at least partially restore vision. (Scientific American.com covered Pezaris's work in March 2008.)

The prosthesis is worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras covering the eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain. This doesn't promise to restore normal vision, but Pezaris is hoping the ability to convey enough information to the brain will enable a person with complete vision loss to be able to identify simple objects and even recognize faces.

"The retinal implant technology is advancing at an impressive rate, but the most interesting thing will be to see how the volunteer subjects who have received the initial Argus II implants will fare as time goes on," Pezaris says. "The brain is highly adaptable and, while some of the initial reports in the scientific literature suggest that retinal implants may have serious problems with poor resolution, it may be that with time, the visual system of implanted patients will adapt to the
new signals, the new form of sight, with slowly improving functionality." This has been the case with cochlear implants, he adds, where the brain needs some months to adapt to the new sensory patterns.

VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., in Saratoga, Calif., is testing visual prosthetic devices designed for individuals with age-related macular degeneration, a disorder of the central retina, or macula, that causes the afflicted person to see a dark spot in the center of his or her field of vision, impairing the ability to read, recognize faces and watch TV. (Scientific American.com first wrote about this technology in August 2007.) VisionCare's Miniature Telescope prostheses are mini telescope-like devices that work with the eye's cornea (the transparent, dome-shaped window covering the front of the eye) like a telephoto system, rendering an enlarged retinal image that reduces the area of diminished vision.

Once implanted, the device protrudes only 0.1 to 0.5 millimeter beyond the surface of the pupil but does not touch the corneal endothelium, a layer of cells lining the back of the cornea. The Miniature Telescope has received CE Mark [[http://www.cemarking.net/ ]] approval (a mandatory European certification indicating conformity with certain health and safety requirements) and is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company reports on its Web site.

biomedical engineer need open source?

Answer is yes,we need it.

Good news from Star.com

More doors open for graduates

By STEFAN NAIDU

KUALA LUMPUR: The demand for open-source software in the ­country and the expertise required in this area is rising, according to the Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC) which spearheads the MSC Malaysia initiative.

Open-source software, said networking systems giant Sun Microsystems, is gaining popularity mainly because the advantages of user malleable programs are becoming more apparent.

Since the source code is ­accessible to users, a company could tweak open-source software to better meet its needs, compared to proprietary software which arguably has to be used as is.

In view of this increasing ­interest in open-source ­applications, MDeC and Sun have banded together to offer local university graduates the ­opportunity to master open-source skills.

Under the partnership, Sun will provide the graduates with industry-recognised technology training and certification tools, through MDeC’s network of institutions of higher learning.

The training will include ­teaching the students to master Java, a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems that has been in use since 1995.

In addition to that, they will learn about OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source operating system, around which the vendor has built developer and user ­communities.

Also on the cards is to make the graduates experts in MySQL, a relational database management system that ­reportedly has more than 11 million installations worldwide.

“The students will gain ­relevant IT skills which will improve their employability, and the initiative will also help meet the local industry’s demand for competent IT professionals,” said MDeC chief executive Datuk Badlisham Ghazali.

He was speaking at a press conference in the capital last week to announce the ­partnership.

C.P. Loo, managing director of Sun Microsystems Malaysia, emphasised the importance of obtaining certification in open-source software.

“Our programmes are designed to enable IT ­professionals to better harness Sun’s leading open-source ­technologies,” he said, “as well as improve their communication and interaction skills.

The graduates will also be more productive once their ­technical and problem-solving skills are honed, Loo added.

Candidates who complete the course may be awarded a three-month apprenticeship at an MSC Malaysia-status company.

The MSC Malaysia initiative is aimed at developing the ­country’s knowledge-based economy, as well as boosting its information and communications technology industry