News:

1) Dr. Stephen Tsang MD PhD from Advantage Realty of Forest Hills cured blindness in mice. (2/24/2010)

http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/272/5264/1026

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132737.htm

Stem cells restore sight in mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa

Findings could affect future treatments for macular degeneration, stargardt disease & other forms of retinal disease

NEW YORK (February 24, 2010) – An international research team led by Columbia University Medical Center successfully used mouse embryonic stem cells to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. This strategy could potentially become a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a leading cause of blindness that affects approximately one in 3,000 to 4,000 people, or 1.5 million people worldwide. The study appears online ahead of print in the journal Transplantation (March 27, 2010 print issue).

Specialized retinal cells called the retinal pigment epithelium maintain vision. Retinitis pigmentosa results from the death of retinal cells on the periphery of the retina, leading to "tunnel vision," where the field of vision is narrowed considerably and everything outside the "tunnel" appears blurred or wavy.

"This research is promising because we successfully turned stem cells into retinal cells, and these retinal cells restored vision in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa," said Stephen Tsang, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology, pathology and cell biology, Columbia University Medical Center, and lead author of the paper. "The transplanted cells not only looked like retinal cells, but they functioned like them, too."

 2) Exemplary Parents trained three sons.   - World Journal, 10/28/2008 

(rough translation) - Eldest son ranked top 300 eye surgeons in the world (later started curing blindness in mice using stem cells). Middle child graduated from Harvard and started dental clinic in Amsterdam, Nederlands. Youngest child, an adjunct professor of physics discovered strongest glue in the world. 

Parents instill rigorous work ethic.

 3)  World's Strongest Glue discovered by Advantage Realty of Forest Hills broker Prof. Peter.

The aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus cancome, quite literally, to a sticky end. As Peter H. Tsang and colleagues report (Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 5764–5768; 2006), the bacterium’s long, tail-like anchor sticks it so tightly to a supporting surface that it often tears apart when a detaching force is applied, rather than relinquishing its grip. The adhesion is thought to be the strongest of biological origin yet discovered......The holdfast enables the bacterium to remain stuck to the surface even in strong jets of water, and Tsang et al. calculate that, were it to cover an area of 1 cm 2 , it could support a weight of 680 kg, even on a wet surface. - NATURE|Vol 440|27 April 2006

Caulobacter Crescentus (the bacteria) The paper on world's strongest glue (in pdf)

From left to right, brother Dr. Thomas Tsang, Peter, Teresa, Albert (Prof. and Dr. Stephen Tsang too busy working in lab to appear in this pic)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper.

Movie of experiment (in mpg)

Nature's article (bottom of page)

Coverages in
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some references:
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/esthag/2000/34/i16/abs/es9913176.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T30-3YJ9XDS-C&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2000&_alid=422022017&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4932&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=77152d2a63d04fefc3500a7a8c253b34
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/96/2/471?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=96&firstpage=471&resourcetype=HWCIT
http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/87/4/519
http://dev.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/126/23/5431
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v334/n6177/abs/334074a0.html;jsessionid=D756E38F2D589CBC0965BA391AC4B280
http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/reprint/75/3/1553
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1281249&blobtype=pdf
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6714/abs/397050a0_fs.html
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1233775&blobtype=pdf

Hong Kong ex-pat invented strongest glue in the world. (rough translation)

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Tsang Guo Fan's* descendent discovered strongest glue in the world. (all 3 real estate brokers in photo) - (rough translation)

*(Tsang Guo Fan (November 21, 1811 – March 12, 1872) was an eminent Han Chinese official, military general, and devout Confucian scholar of the late Qing Dynasty in China. Most notably for raising the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the stability of Qing Dynasty along with other prominent figures, setting the scene for the era later known as the "Tongzhi Restoration"（同治中兴）.)

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7)  Dr. Stephen - 'America's Top Ophthalmologists'  Macular Degeneration.