The Whispers of Biology

 R.I.P. Prof. David Baltimore Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine (1975) — discoverer of the enzyme Reverse Transcriptase (RT) in 1970, at just 37 years old. This enzyme has been in every high-school biology textbook, yet many of us forget how revolutionary its discovery was. It changed the way we understand life, disease, and treatment. At that time, the Central Dogma was simple: DNA → RNA → Protein. But RT overturned the dogma: RNA → DNA. A paradigm shift. Baltimore’s experiment explained how viruses could integrate their genetic material into the host DNA. Later, this became central to our understanding of HIV, cancer biology, and the development of therapies. His discovery also sparked the golden era of viral oncogenes — genes like src and myc carried by viruses that could integrate into human DNA and trigger cancer. I was fortunate to join a seminar earlier this year where Prof. Baltimore gave a keynote talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cancer Genetics: History & Co...

 💊 The Infinity Cancer Drug Factory 🏯✨   Pharmacy students don’t just learn about medicines — we also have to design factory layouts … even though most of us can’t use AutoCAD properly 😂 Designing a pharmaceutical plant layout is never simple. 🏭 For a regular drug factory , you already need a complex flow to separate cleanroom grades and prevent contamination. ⚠️ For chemotherapy drugs (cytotoxic) , the complexity increases — you must protect workers and contain hazardous substances. 🧬 For biologics , you add another layer: biosafety . It becomes so complicated that it feels like Infinity Castle from Demon Slayer — you can enter, but finding the way out is impossible 😅. 💡 Back in pharmacy school, we had to design plant layouts too: Some friends got simple factories (like paracetamol) → easy task 😌 My group drew a chemotherapy factory → endless books and regulations 📚 My close friend got a vaccine factory → even harder, with design + legal compliance ...

🐧 Penguin → the Linux mascot. Unix command line is like a rare language. I chose to learn it after Prof. Xiaole Shirley Liu taught me in STAT115, and with Tommy’s encouragement. Many said: “Just use no-coding tools, it’s easier.” Yes, that’s possible — but in the long run, harder paths build stronger skills. Today, I’m grateful I took that way. ❤️ Iron Man armor → transformation is never easy. Like Iron Man, the process is tough, but it makes you stronger — a scientist’s version of becoming a superhero. 🧪💻 Hybrid identity → test tube in one hand, laptop in the other. This penguin represents my journey as a hybrid wet–dry lab researcher. ⸻ 💡 Transformation is hard, but that’s what makes it powerful. You can do it too — keep going! 🚀 ⸻ Build a greater science together with me! 🌸 Thai language: NO CANCER FB page / Blogger https://lnkd.in/gQa3apBc 🧬 English language: The Whispers of Biology (LinkedIn / Blogger) https://lnkd.in/gRTnrpRz ⸻ #TheWhispersOfBiology #HybridResearcher #Data...

 How to remember commands/code? Easy: just type it 100 times yourself (when you actually need to use it),   INSTEAD OF copy-pasting. 😂   Old days: read docs → adapt → remember.   Now: LLMs prep everything → brain remembers nothing (not even a simple line of code 🤯) ========== Build a greater science together with me! Here is my blogs 🌸 Thai language: NO CANCER FB page/Blogger (https://lnkd.in/gQa3apBc or https://lnkd.in/gTqDK8MA) 🧬 English language: The Whispers of Biology (LinkedIn/Blogger) (https://lnkd.in/gRTnrpRz or https://lnkd.in/gRe_VtUF) #CodeLife #DevLife #ProgrammerHumor #LLM #FutureOfCoding #KeepLearning

 เราคิดถึงคุณดิกกกก (อ่านชื่อแล้วคิดดีไม่ได้เลย) We miss youuuu Dickkkk! (Okay… reading that name in English, you just can’t think innocent thoughts 😂) At first glance, I thought “wait…what??” Because in slang, Dick = little Pikachu ⚡️ But then Dr. Bunchar  Tanaboonsombat kindly explained with a photo… Ohhh right, it’s the nickname for Richard !   So who was the mysterious Richard that got such a bold love confession on top of our university library building? ❤ None other than the extraordinary Richard Feynman ❤ Nobel Prize–winning physicist, and one of the most beloved science teachers of all time. His students loved him so much that even 30 years after his passing, they hung this tribute up high on campus.  And honestly, if you’ve ever read or listened to Feynman, you’d get it—he wasn’t just brilliant, he was hilarious. You can check out Dr. Buncha’s podcast (super fun storytelling, even featuring Maxwell recently!). 💡 Now, how does a biologist like me...

From Cell Line🧫 to Command Line💻  & The Most Headachest person🤫 Me as… 🧫 Wet lab = Headache 💻 Dry lab = more Headache 🧫🧬💻 Hybrid Wet-Dry = The most Headache 🤯 Anyone else feel like a human ping-pong ball between the wet lab and dry lab? 😅 I made the leap from bench work to bioinformatics hoping to be the ultimate translator... turns out, sometimes I'm just fluent in headache (on both sides! 😂). Seriously though, open and early communication between our wet lab wizards and dry lab dynamos is KEY! Instead of waiting for the data to land, let's chat before experiments, during analysis, and really understand each other's world. It's a two-way street, folks! Bridging this gap isn't just about fewer headaches for us hybrids; it's about getting the absolute BEST out of our amazing skills and resources on both sides. Let's talk more, collaborate better, and make some awesome discoveries together! 🚀 For everyone who transform from wet to...