Monday, August 14, 2023

Worm's Genome in My Brain

It is interesting to note a surgeon has removed several worms from an Australian woman recently.
Detected through a MRI shadow.
The worms were not visible and was an accidental finding.

By the way, there is another worm called Taenia solium, a tiny tape worm resident in pork.
I think Jews ans Muslim do not eat pork due to this worm infection.

Pigs also carry an encephalitis virus that is transmitted by the common mosquitoes, Culex fatigans.

JEN-V or Japanese Encephalitis virus.

I was part of the team of the IIMI where we developed the vaccine with Japanese AIDS.

This not an educational piece but a satire piece and copyright protected.

My proteome is 20,000 and assuming 80% homology I have 16,000 proteins in my brain almost exactly similar to a tiny worm Ceanorhabditis elegans who is only 1mm in length.This guy has 302 neurons and 7000 connections and my brain cannot see any of these without a microscope.

Thankfully my childhood craze was a microscope  (not the telescope).

I have a standard digital microscope at home and a children's Telescope and Microscope Kit, I bought for 150 Singapore dollars many moons ago.

Problem is my brain has billions of connections and I think I probably have not used 80% of those connections for nearly 35 years (for clinical and academic work).

The corollary is if evey being uses little bit of his or her brain daily, this world would be a nicer place than it is today.

Nearly 80 millions connections of my connections are available for sale to the chatGPT for resale.

This blog site is not getting Big Hits and it will be closed soon and the Google search engine should not try to activate it.

Thankfully, my gmail client will be erased by default,  in two years from now.

Thank you Google and YouTube.


Formulary Notes and Ceylon Medical Journal

This is about Medical Faculty of Peradeniya.

We did not have a journal then all our publications were condensed in Formulary Notes.
Professor Senaka Bible initiated these little publications similar to Bhody Leaves of BPS.

Rest of the publications had to be presented to CMJ.

There was a book on liver of pathology published by a lady in UK who was an examiner.

To me, most  mentioned in the book were artifactorial.

One day, I asked my Professor of Pathology, it is time we should dispute them.

He said this is what you should do.

Professor of Paediatrics was very helpful and we decided to write 10 articles (not research) based on liver pathology in children.

Infectious hepatitis was common then.

The so called textbook was removed within 3 months of our publications in CMJ.

I decided to pen this since doctoring publications was an age old tradition.

There is a YouTube presentation highlighting these episodes.

The Coranavirus Saga is the latest manifestation.