just want to share these information with you guys. credit to Nasa because he was the person who found these info.

See Through Frog

Glofish

Land Mines Detecting Plants

Vacanti Mouse

Ruppy

For more pictures ,details and information, you guys can check this website. click here.

Visitors and Friends

Dear academic staff and students, Assalamualaikum w.b.t.

Please take note of the important dates for the online Student Feedback Survey (SFS) for Semester 1 Session 2010-2011 as shown below:

Initial run: 16 - 29 August 2010 (Week 6 - Week 7)

Second run: 6 - 26 October 2010 (Week 12 - Week 14)

NOTES:

1. The results of the initial run will be made available in Week� 8 (30^th Aug - 5^th Sept). However, these results will not be considered as the official SFS score.

2. The results of the second run are the official SFS scores and will be made available after the last day to submit student grades through the online CAM/Results Entry System.

3. In the initial run, students complete Part A (Lecturer) only. In the second run, students complete Part A (Lecturer) and Part B (Course).

The online SFS can be accessed at http://elearn.iiu.edu.my/sfs. To login use your matric number as userid and pin number as password. Please complete the SFS honestly. The SFS can be used to improve the teaching and learning in IIUM. For enquiries, please e-mail Br. Azlan Mohamed Zain at azlanmz@iium.edu.my or Br. Azlan Abdul Aziz at azlanaziz@iium.edu.my.

QUIZES
Medical biotech : 20 August 2010 (4 lecture a.k.a all)
Instrumentation in Biotech : 24 August 2010 (HPLC & GC)
Natural Product : 30 August 2010



MIDTERM EXAM

Medical Biotech : 26 August 2010 (all chapter)

Research Methodology : 30 August 2010
                           venue: exam hall 1 & 2
                            time : 2.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.

Bioinformatics : 1 September 2010

Instrumentation in niotech : 23 September 2010

Natural Product : 2 weeks after holiday (the date will be determined later)

Design and Optimization : 1 week after holiday (the date will be determined later)

mis hasnah is searching debators for First National Intervarsity Biotechnology Debate Competition. For those who are interested can give name your name to Hasna Humaid Ahmad (through Facebook). for more information, u olls can visit this website.

Natural Product Lab will start on 1 p.m.

For Instrument Midterm, it will be held on 23 september night. venue will be determined later. Selamat Study!!!

ANNOUNCEMENT!! ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Jumaat ini bersamaan 13 ogos 2010 akan diadakan bacaan Yassin untuk keluarga rakan kita, Mohd Ruzaini @ Abe dimana pada minggu lepas beliau telah kehilangan ayahanda tercinta.

Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat dari Nya dan di tempatkan di kalangan orang-orang yang beriman. Amin.

today we will learn about "Bubble Boy" disease. (tiba-tiba buka kelas Medical Biotech pula! hehe~)

"Bubble Boy" disease, known as X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1), occurs in at least one in every 50,000 to 100,000 newborns, according to the National Institutes of Health.

It's caused by mutations in the IL2RG gene, which interferes with the normal production of immune system cells known as lymphocytes.

Boys with the condition (only boys inherit the gene ) have no T-cells and so are unable to fight off infections.

The first treatment of choice for these patients is a bone marrow or cord blood transplant, but that requires a matched donor and can involve serious complications. The nine boys in study (who had a median age of 7 months at the time they received the corrected gene) were not eligible for transplants because no good matches were available.

Researchers removed CD34+ cells, a type of stem cell found in the bone marrow, added a corrected gene, then reinserted them into the respective patients, all of whom were placed in isolation.

The patients were able to leave the isolation unit 45 to 90 days after the procedure, and none developed any severe infections, although all did get Varicella zoster virus (which causes chicken pox). The infection wasn't severe enough to require hospitalization. Some of the patients also had chronic rhinitis (runny nose) and two patients developed warts, though these subsequently went away.

The most serious side effect was the development of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in three patients, one of whom died. The other three successfully underwent chemotherapy.

Participants all had healthy T-cells up to 11 years after the initial therapy.

The study appears in the July 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

p/s: taking from news.yahoo.com