Tradition OR transformation?

1. Field biology needs strongger character
2. Now adays more ladies in the field of field biology. All biology teachers must study ecology or field biology.
3. What happen to male students?
4. Is it because they always sit at the back of lecture theater
5. OR they always show no interest in the class. OR because of too many lady teachers in school OR father and son relationship?

Transformmmmmm

Spirit, Attitude, Hardworking, Skills, Services, Health Care

Tun Mahathir Experience in Melbourne:

The Home Hospital has a full staff of doctors, specialists and nurses. They will carry out the full hospital treatment, periodical medical examination and treatment, intravenous drips, physiotherapy etc. They do not stay with patients but would visit at the designated time and stay as long as necessary. It is far better than house-call by doctors as they can only give limited service. You feel you are being well looked after as in the hospital, but you have the ambience of home and family.

Another service I experienced is the ambulance service. The two ambulance personnel are very highly trained to give first aid including CPR, proper handling of fractures, take blood pressure and heart rate, ECG and other signs and symptoms. They handle their patients very competently, are in continuous communication with the hospital to ensure preparation for receiving the patients.

A future jobs.

7 Cities About to Sink

1. Bangkok, Thailand.
2. New York City, New York
3. Houston, Texas
4. Shanghai, China
5. New Orleans, Louisiana
6. Venice, Italy
7. Mexico City, Mexico

Sinking because of global warming and underground water extraction. What we can learn? Bottom right is Kota Tinggi.

What Nature Can Do?

We need to learn nature because nature provide a lot of solution.

+ Foods
+ Pharmaceuticals
+ Living styles and environment (engineering/pharmacy/sociology/science)

Biologist Works to Restore Horseshoe Crab Populations

When it comes to human medicine, horseshoe crabs are lifesavers.

Their blood cells contain a clotting agent that attaches to harmful bacteria. This “miracle blood” is widely used by pharmaceutical and medical companies to ensure that their products, e.g., intravenous drugs, vaccines and medical devices, are free of contamination.

So when the horseshoe crab population became threatened in North America and Southeast Asia about a decade ago, the demand for ecological research attracts many scientists. Factors such as pollution and coastal development have threatened the prime beach areas beside over fishing for effective baits for eel and sea snails and food.

Hard numbers are not available, since it is only recently that people have conducted surveys of the horseshoe crabs in Asia, but it was clear from the 2007 conference that my Asian colleagues all felt that their populations had declined,. At that conference, habitat loss, water pollution, urbanization and land reclamation were named as factors affecting the horseshoe crab populations in parts of Taiwan, India, China and Mexico.

There is no international treaty or anything like that to protect horseshoe crabs. In a lot of these places, it’s not perceived as an important task to preserve them.

Trying to raise public awareness about the value of horseshoe crabs in Southeast Asia in understanding its ecological role or importance is among the important strategies for conservation..
Naturally the eggs of this horseshoe crabs are food for migratory shore birds. There fore if we believe in conserving and protection of migratory shore birds and its habitat, directly this fossil creature will be protected. That’s why high trophic levels animals usually suggested as a key species in a protected habitat.
Therefore an ecological survey and monitoring is very important!

Advance OR Primitif? Reseach or Ecological Survey? Can it fulfill High Impact Factor Journals>

Amazing blood-clotting design in ‘primitive’ creature used in space research!

The horseshoe crab (a living fossil) has many design features that not only help the crab itself, but are also useful for mankind. Horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus, used to develop a test for bacteria. Bacterial cell walls contain distinctive LPS molecules (lipopolysaccharides, molecules containing sugar units and a fat). These trigger a cascade of enzyme reactions in horseshoe crab blood that attack the bacterial proteins and culminate in the production of a protein called fibrin. This clots the crab’s blood and, in the wild, would effectively seal a wound.
Fifty years ago, the MBL biologists exploited these coagulation properties to develop a test for microbial toxins and impurities on instruments used by pharmaceutical companies. This is called the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test (LAL).

‘Horseshoe crab blood cells act like a primitive immune system’

if it is so ‘primitive’, then why has it survived for the alleged millions of years


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1.Simple biology research on breeding/ecology of horseshoe crab attracts NASA.
2.long time of research activities with big grants.
3.understanding basic research; biology, ecology of wild animals
4.America understand biology, ecology (including ecological survey), behaviour, habitat, blood, physiology and conservation (including public awareness)
5.Research found horshoe crabs good for human health.
6.We Asian take a short cut journey hunt and eat the animals.
7.Asian do research on cooking and ingridient to improve thev taste of cooking.
8.Even top management does not value basic sciences (they prbably listen to chef rather than scientists)
9.We only see, think and interpret what is in front of our eyes. Something behind our ears we cannot feel, see, think, evaluate and use them.
10.how we are going to think about advance research and beyond ordinary people thinking? Do we need to wait until artist (singer and jokers) and politician to advice our scientists?

Raja Nazrin reminded that the responsibility of conserving biodiversity should not remain with government agencies and NGOs

Existing policies and legislation in relation to biodiversity should be reviewed, updated or replaced to reflect contemporary realities. Need to incorporate all ecologist, biodiversity and economists together multimillion dollar services in the process of making decision.