When
I work out the cost, if the cost is US$1,000 for using animals, which excludes
the chemicals you have to use, this assay is US$100. Cheap, cheap, cheap. And
that's complete — including the chemicals already in the assay
Comments by Jamaican
Scientist Dr Lawrence Williams on his breakthrough development of a BSA (Bovine
Serum Albumin) assay to replace Animal Testing in the Jamaica Observer, Sunday
April 14th 2013
Jamaican
Scientist Dr Lawrence Williams has now made it plain that can Jamaicans
contribute to the body of scientific work. Dr Lawrence Williams, a researcher
at the SRC (The Scientific Research Council)
has revealed the publication in the West Indian Medical Journal in 2008 of a
means of testing drugs without the need to kill animals using a BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) assay as published in
the article “Jamaican scientist has good news for
our animals”, published April 9th, 2013, The
Scientific Research Council.
Animals
worldwide, from Guinea Pigs and Rats to Monkeys can give Dr Lawrence Williams
two (2) paws up!
The Jamaica Gleaner cloned the SRC
article word for word and The Jamaica
Observer almost a week later reported the significance of this scientific
publication in the articles “Jamaican develops serum to save animals from lab
testing”, published Monday April 8, 2013 by Keisha Hill, Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica Gleaner and “Scientific breakthrough?”, published Sunday,
April 14, 2013 BY KIMONE
THOMPSON Associate Editor — Features, The Jamaica Observer respectively.
Talk
about copycats, SRC!
Regardless,
in the process, Dr Lawrence Williams may have also set himself up for the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry or possibly the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His
discoveries touches on those fields, according to his research buddy German
Professor of Chemistry Dr Wolfgang Kraus at the University of Hohenheim in
Stuttgart, who cautiously stated quote: “…..the academic community may decide some day about
international recognition”.
Interestingly he’s already been
nominated for the Nobel Prize before along with winning other prestigious
awards:
1. Nomination
for the Nobel Prize (2001)
2. The
United Cultural Convention's International Peace Prize (2003)
3. The
Jamaica's Silver Musgrave Medal (2011)
4. Nomination
for the American Biographical Institute's Man of the Year designation (2010)
BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) is a Protein derived
from the blood of slaughtered cattle, the same blood albumin that’s the active
transport mechanism for chemical compounds thought the body. Consequently, as
it’s a Protein that chemically resembles the albumin found in humans, it’s
excellent for testing the effect of new drugs on at a faction of the cost,
about US$100 per assay. In the words of
Dr Lawrence Williams, quote: “There are no justifications at the cellular level
why animals should be used to develop drugs for human beings. While this assay
is available it should be given priority as it does not involve harming living
things”.
His
BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) assay has actually been in use for the past
decade at around fourteen (14) Research institutions globally, having been
developed over a fourteen (14) year span and been actively developed as a
replacement for expensive place of animal testing., it definitely a major breakthrough,
based on frequent weekly requests for permission to use his assay technique,
quote “I never thought of it as a major breakthrough at the time. I wasn't
looking at it in that light until so many people started using it, instead of
animals. Every week, basically, for the past six months, people have been
asking if they can use it”.
That
“cheaper” is what caught my eye as I was trolling the Internet using Google
looking for a good replacement for Garlic in my diet and led me eventually to
the SRC website.
Discoveries?
There are several prior to this one, again which led me to stumbling upon this
most recent developement by Dr Lawrence Williams.
Dr
Lawrence Williams, the consummate Scientist, graduated from UWI (University of
the West Indies in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a Chemistry minor and
earned his PhD in Zoology in 1991 for his research into Breadfruit, has a
rather interesting personal history as detailed in the article “Dr Lawrence Williams has a passion for research”,
published Sunday, June 11, 2006 BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter, The Jamaica Observer.
He also received the prestigious
Alexander von Humbolt Scholarship in 2003 to do post-doctoral studies on the Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea) at the Hohenheim University in
Germany where he was aided in his research by professors Harold Rosner and
Wolfgang Kraus. He still works at the SRC as a consultant and he possibly still
lectures in Human Anatomy in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies.
Maybe he may even be lecturing over
at the newly rebranded Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies,which now has a now
decidedly Engineering-esque focus as surmised in my blog article
entitled “UWI's Faculty of Pure and Applied
Sciences is now Science and Technology as SPIE funds Optics Research - Welcome
to the Punch at a multi-billion dollar Optics Revolution”.
Since then he and fellow researcher
Dr George Levy, a Jamaican born Doctor who's practicing Medicine in the US have
made a Protein complex of the extract of the active chemical in the Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea) that fights various cancers as
reported in the article “Jamaican scientist lands
blow in cancer fight”, published Thursday December 2, 2010, The Jamaica Gleaner and the follow-up
article “Williams' cancer patent: Utmost for the
highest”, published Thursday December 16, 2010, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Dibenzyl
Trisulphide (C14H14S3 ) and Astilbin are the active ingredients that
can be extracted via seeping powdered Guinea Hen
Weed (Petiveria Alliacea)
using a fine cloth bag in Distilled Water made as described in my Geezam
blog entitled “How to Make Distilled Water
using a Solar Desalinator”.
Then the active compounds, which are
organic an slightly soluble in Distilled Water, can then be further purified
and crystallized via adding 100% pure Ethyl Alcohol and then using gentle heat
from a Vacuum Water Bath to drive off the excess Ethyl Alcohol and Water. The
final Green Liquor, so to speak, can be Vacuum Filtered leaving mainly Crystals
of Dibenzyl Trisulphide (C14H14S3
) and Astilbin for
personal use. Best stored in Dark bottle away from direct sunlight, by the way!
Or you can skip all of that and buy a
12-pack of Guinea Hen Weed Extract on Amazon for
US$12.95. Either way, it’s to you health’s benefit as it’s several “Ounce[s]
of Prevention”, Dr Tony Vendryes Style!
Dibenzyl
Trisulphide (C14H14S3 ) and Astilbin
was among thirty four (34) active phyto-chemical compounds single out in
research and shown to specifically attack Cancer Cells to the exclusion of
Healthy normal Cells; very rare for naturally occurring phyto-chemical
compounds as noted in the article “Guinea hen
weed: A powerful Jamaican herb”, published Tuesday October 18, 2011, by Dr Tony Vendryes at, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Dr Lawrence Williams shows no sign
of stopping there. He’s got plans to raise a further US$20 million to develop
the BSA assay and further his research into Guinea
Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea)
main active ingredient, Dibenzyl Trisulphide (C14H14S3
) as per the most recent news in the article entitled “More success for Guinea Hen Weed”, published
Sunday, April 21, 2013 BY
KIMONE THOMPSON Features Editor, The Jamaica Observer.
But a panacea for all diseases,
including Ageing? To quote Dr Lawrence Williams: “The key breakthrough is that
DTS can reprogramme the thymus. We think it is going to change the face of
medicine. It could be a broad spectrum cure for disease”
And here was I thinking that Nanoparticles of Liposomes with Bee poison Mellitin attached was the only cure all for Cancer as described in my blog article entitled “Washington University School of Medicine Researchers use Liposomes and Melittin to kill HIV - Olympus has Fallen and given us a Panacea for every disease on planet Earth”!
Ditto too for Research into
Bacterio-Phage therapy, which I believe the UWI can also undertake here in
Jamaica as per my recommendation in my blog article
entitled “Bacteriophage Therapy from former USSR
State Georgia is a potential treatment against Super-bug Bacteria - Hansel and
Gretel Witch Hunters Panacea to eradicate Bacterial infections”
By itself, the Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea) does a fantastic job of fighting
cancer, based on known folklore. This folklore the possible source of the
hypothesis and thus subsequent research by the native St. Elizabethan and
former Calabar Old Boy Dr Lawrence Williams and Dr George Levy.
The Guinea
Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea),
also referred to as Anamu in Latin American, is also called Guinea Hen Weed,
Guinea Hen Leaf, Garlic Weed or Gully Root, has several plant compounds or
phyto-chemicals, namely Dibenzyl Trisulphide
and Astilbin. Nuff name it have; no wonder it’s famous!
In addition, the Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea) also contains a grab-bag of other
active ingredients, about 20 of ‘em, mostly Favanoids, Triterpenes,
Steroids, and Sulfur compounds. These phyto-chemical compounds are chemically similar to compounds found in Garlic
(Allium sativum). Garlic (Allium sativum), like Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea)), is already know to be good for the prostate.
It has other traditional uses know
in medical folklore and have now been further validated by science :
1.
Arthritis
2.
Digestive
disorders
3.
Infections
4.
Diabetes
5.
Cancers
including Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Leukemia
6.
Pain
relief
7.
Induce
abortions
8.
Alzheimer's
Disease
9.
Parkinson's
Disease
10. Ageing (yes you read that right!)
This discovery in Cancer treatment
using Guinea Hen Weed (Petiveria Alliacea) is on the same level and of the
same pedigree in the Medicinal Sciences as Jamaican
pharmacologist, Professor Manley West and ophthalmologist, Dr. Albert Lockhart.
Both
these Scientists used Marijuana (Cannabis
Sativa) to develop Canasol as noted in “Ganja-based
eyedrops a hot sell”, published Sunday August 24, 2003 by Teino Evans,
Staff Reporter, The Jamaica Gleaner,
also based on folklore involving Rastafarians having excellent Night Vision due
to smoking Marijuana (Cannabis Sativa).
Canasol is now a now popular eye drop remedy for Glaucoma and “Doctors develop first eye medication in the Carib”,
published Sunday August 16, 2009, The
Jamaica Gleaner.
So never mind the fact that this St.
Elizabeth native still works at the same place, the SRC
(The Scientific Research Council), lives with his parents and is not
married. I like his research, especially this latest discovery and the fact he
at least enjoys Volleyball, which is a favourite sport of the community I’m
from; Milk River, Clarendon.
A lot of animals, from Guinea
Pigs and rats to monkeys can give Dr Lawrence Williams two (2) paws up! Who knows, maybe one day I too may get some
recognition for my hair-brained idea for using GSM (Global System Mobile)
Triangulation or other more advance techniques to keep track of Stray Animals
in Jamaica as suggested in my blog article
entitled “The Zoological Society of London and
their Cat Map - How UWI's Department of Biotechnology, the JSPCA and Telecom
Providers can Kick Ass 2 against Feral Cats and Dogs”.
For now, for SOS (Saving Our Skins)
both humans suffering from Cancer and Disease, the Cats and Dogs (2001) give this
US$100 discovery 2 Paws up!
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