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Monday, October 12, 2009 22:25

Probably the Nobel Laureates are to be blamed for our sufferings during our A's. Those who took A'level Bio or equivalents, or even those who are now segmenting their brains to accomodate the vast complexity of life - in short the Life Science majors - know how much it hurts the brain to keep internalizing facts, machineries, mechanisms.

It wasn't until 2001 that ribosomal structures became a known fact to man, thanks to the work of the three Laureates who received the Nobel in Chemistry just recently. Which means, it wasn't until after 2001 that knowing the machinery of telomerases and ribosomes became something that is expected of every Biology student. So it were YOU, who made my life miserable back then!

If the slight hint of sarcasm escaped from your eyes, I need to emphasize that the above is all but a joke okay. The part where they are to be blamed is, but the part where only recently that ribosomes were fully known to man isn't. And it is because of their decades of lab work in the dark that man today are able to live a more optimistic life or at least promised of a potential improvement in safeguarding the health of the entire human race.

So Laureates if you are reading this yes although you made my life miserable for two years there is still a heartfelt gratitude towards your continuous strive for the betterment of mankind. Now that the fruits of your labour open another gateway to a development of more targetted and efficient drugs, I am pretty sure the next, if not ours, generation will benefit so much from you.

I mean, traditionally un-cure-able (BAD BAD ENGLISH) heriditary diseases are now controllable with drug administration, and this doesn't happen without some people in the past who used to have a queer interest for viral DNA.

When they announced what type of research the Laureates did that fetched them this prestigeous award, I was genuinely surprised. Initially I thought for something so intellectually demanding as THE Nobel Prize, the discoveries should be earth shattering, or should have fanciful names that sound like they walked right out of The Encyclopedia of Biology of Organisms. Instead, they were two terms an A'Level Bio student would be so familiar with, you guessed it right, ribosomes and telomeres. And instead of staring in complete loss, I actually exclaimed, "Hey I know this!"

Awesome isn't it, to actually know what they are talking about IN A NOBEL PRIZE DISCUSSION. The plain awesome-ness is yet too complex to put in words. Or should I say, I have found new respect for people working dedicately for Science and Medicine - and I hate to say - I even found more respect for my often-nutcase organic chemistry professor.

So here are two videos about the works of such great people who would dedicate their lives to the lab for all of us. The first video is about the three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2009, and the second is for Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009.