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...

 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...

Rubbing shoulders with a Nobel laureate once,  and I've been hooked ever since!  It was with Prof. Ada, the Nobel laureate in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the structure and function of ribosomes. 🔬 I was fresh out of my Medicinal Chemistry course, and during a conference, I got to listen to her speak. That's when it all clicked! I could clearly visualize how a drug slips into a specific pocket of a protein to disable a bacterial cell. 🦠 It made the connection between what I learned in class and its real-world application crystal clear. Prof. Ada presented it with a beautiful animation, making the complex science so tangible. I was so inspired that I went straight back to my university and bothered my professor to tell him just how mind-blowing it all was. This experience truly brought my education to life. 🤯 (P.S. I've listened to Prof. Ada speak many times since, and one thing that never changes is the age of her granddaughter—she's always ...