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Published online 13 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1167
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Glowing with pride
Nature catches up with freshly-minted Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Without any doubt, also this Nobel Price is worthy! However, in my opinion, today's molecular biological discoveries need too sophysticated, expensive technology, on the one hand, while, on the other hand, their results are far away to be utilised in every day practice on very large scale. For instance, in a paper suggested as CME,authors underline the importance of CRPhs (a biomarker of inflammation) in recognizing the risk of FUTURE diabetes and CAD! It is sufficient to read in www.nature.com my CLINICAL comments on bedside evaluation of diabetic INHERITED Real Risk as well as INHERITED CAD Real Risk, both "conditio sine qua non" of related disorders, for realize that "There are thousands suns above the clouds awaiting us!", as sound an old Indian proverb: www.nature,com, About Biophysical Semeiotic Constitutions http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/09/acupuncture_better_than_medici_1.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/07/plos_one_take_two.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/06/menu_labeling_preaching_to_the.html#comments http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/UE19877E8/2008/02/14/in-which-i-get-roped-in-open-lab-2008 http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/02/confusion_after_diabetes_study.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/02/confusion_after_diabetes_study.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/03/gout_gene.html http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/07/hey_pharma_leave_those_kids_al.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/07/who_leaves_comments_on_scienti_1.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/09/acupuncture_better_than_medici_1.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/07/plos_one_take_two.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/06/menu_labeling_preaching_to_the.html#comments http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/UE19877E8/2008/02/14/in-which-i-get-roped-in-open-lab-2008 http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/02/confusion_after_diabetes_study.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/02/confusion_after_diabetes_study.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2008/03/gout_gene.html http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/07/hey_pharma_leave_those_kids_al.html#comments http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/07/who_leaves_comments_on_scienti_1.html#comments http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081010/full/455845a.html
Many thanks to Nobel Prize Assembly for making very good choices for this year Nobel Prize in Medicine and Chemistry. I cannot imagine what will happen if the Prize goes to iPS cell discovery (which may be counted for medicine since it claims a great value for regenerative medicine or chemistry since it claims a reprogramming of genome). But the reality is that the basic claim of iPS cells ? inducing any adult differentiated cell back to embryonic or embryonic-like stem cell ? has not been proven beyond doubts. But the harm of iPS cells to human health will be real since they are actually Incorrectly Programmed Stem (still iPS) cells that have shown consistent tumorigenicity in all studies reported so far. Shi V. Liu (SVL@logibio.com; http://im1.biz; http://blog.sina.com.cn/im1)