Apparently it was a Swedish team who first discovered Hamlet in 1995. A Catharina Svanborg, Swedish microbiologist best known for her work on proteins in breast milk, sought out Professor Gerhard Grueber (Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, 1995) for his expertise in structural biology. Latter, currently an associate professor, had joined NTU in August 2005. The collaboration with the local university which started 3 years ago in 2010 was led by Prof Svanborg and Dr Manoj Puthia from Lund University of Sweden, and Prof Guber from NTU's School of Biological Sciences. Maybe if Guber had spear headed the team, the name would be more Aryan sounding, say ADOLF (Alpha-lactabumin Destroy Only Lethal Foreign cells).
Of course, if the foreigners take up citizenship in 5 to 10 years' time, the time frame within which the team hopes to develop a commercially available product, Singapore can take more credit for the fight against cancer.
Based on our past experience with ping pong paddlers, future developments can be hard to predict. In one notable instance, a PRC import took the Olympics medal and prize money and headed straight home for the Motherland. Including her kid, before he comes of age to warrant posting a financial bond to ensure he has to return to fulfill his National Service obligation.
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This is sad news. Again, Singapore caught red handed taking shortcuts and trying very hard to hao lian on things that never originate from it. A big failure and wastage on taxpayers money.
ReplyDeleteHah! Maybe there is not talent TO groom!
DeleteNUS and NTU have always taken this strategy - they rather 'buy' talents than groom their own.
ReplyDeleteLike the PAP, they also favour quick fix solutions including using FTs if necessary.
When will they ever learn that "there are things that money can't buy".
ReplyDeletePerhaps, they didn't pay attention during their Mandarin lessons. And now it's too late to swing out of their 6.9-Million-Target and there is no recourse to [吃里爬外].
One way to remove the People's (human) Alpha-lactabumin Parasite tumour, before too many foreign cells invade our body politic, is to surgically cut it out in 2016 - it will be too late if we wait till stage 4 or a wonder cure, when it will have metastasized to all the vital organs.
ReplyDeleteThen... "Singapore can take more credit for the fight against cancer."
DeleteGood one.
DeleteI think radical surgery is needed very soon.
so this is how singapore takes credit & blows its own trumpet. On the backs of work already done by foreigners. Real sad, isnt it!?
Deletebut the best medication is the newater ....
ReplyDeletestudies show is harmless to human beings ...
But daft people continues to vote for a party that created a lot of harmful policies.
ReplyDeleteThe regime badly wants to be accepted, recognised as a successful example of a place to do business,no crime, no terrorists, and no political issues, no racial issues.
ReplyDeleteTheir idea of 'nation' or 'country' is not the same as conventional ideas. They dare present a 'place to do business'. Not a nation or country.
In time to come, the political process of voting will come to pass.The electorate is irrelevant for it will not exist. In its place will be just like contractors, vendors providing contracts for service. No entitlements,benefits or even obligations from the buyer of the service.
Nation? perhaps only in form... not in substance.
Country? perhaps for maps
People? no!.. contractors
Its a new world
Based on our past experience,there is always a CBF,
ReplyDeletecheaper, better and faster ways to exploit.......
Dumberer and Dumberest
If you're not familiar with it, the Prussian system was a teaching methodology
designed to stamp out good little worker bees assembly-line fashion, trained to
be complacent with their station in life and compliant with every demand of the
State. An elite of those better educated but still proven unquestioningly loyal
to the State were promoted to lead the proletariat, rewarded with elevated
status and material success commensurate with their skills and the zeal they
demonstrate in supporting the system. It specifically avoided developing
creativity and independent thought, reasoning these were skills the worker
classes didn't need in their roles as mass produced labor. .........
It's an intricate but fascinating story in a grim Machiavellian way,...............
We have a country full of people who while reasonably capable of performing their jobs, have never learned the basics of creative or
independent thought. They can play the most intricate of video games, but lack
the skills needed to think their way out of a paper bag in far too many instances. Worse, since the State has indoctrinated them so well with its peculiar brand of non-logic, any trouble or obstacles they encounter in life
caused by the State itself are often simply overlooked by these folks as if they
didn't exist, blinded as they are by State worship. This hearkens back to
Dunning and Kruger's observation that people deficient in reasoning skills don't
learn from their mistakes and will repeat them without ever realizing the fundamental problems at the root of their failures.
They can't spell, punctuate or compose a paragraph competently, skills that were
considered essential for children growing up a century ago. As Orwell's Newspeak
in 1984 removed the ability to commit thoughtcrime by destroying language, so
too have the public incrementally lost the ability to communicate effectively...without even realizing it. As the situation deteriorates, so-called educators excuse the education system's failure by promoting the idea that the proper use of language constitutes 'elitism,' one of the worst
pejoratives in their arsenal of epithets flung at enemies to silence them whenever they cross its will.
(source)
Dumberer and Dumberest
http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/glenn-horowitz/item/dumberer-and-dumberest-3?category_id=194
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The $158 billion Singapore Budget Accounting Fraud: Part I | Balding's World
http://www.baldingsworld.com/2012/07/12/the-158-billion-singapore-budget-accounting-fraud-part-i/
Epic fraud: How to succeed in science (without doing any) | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/epic-fraud-how-to-succeed-in-science-without-doing-any/
How To Deceive, Lie And Spread Disinformation A Guide To The Most Effective Disinformation Tactics
http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-deceive-lie-and-spread-disinformation-a-guide/
Foreign talent who used to work in NUS is a fraud
http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/12/20/foreign-talent-who-used-to-work-in-nus-is-a-fraud/
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/12/immunologist-accused-of-misconduct-in-21-papers.html
Joshua Chiang
By the way it's haNtam not haMtam
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