🚀 Warp-speed summary (in 3 sentences) 📡 Discovery 👨‍🚀 Impressions Hyperion is an abandoned poem by John Keats about the fall of the Titans following their losing war with the Olympians from 1820. Why am I telling you this? Because …
Review of Atlas (movie)
Sci-fi review: This is a fast-paced, action-packed movie, which pits AI-hating Atlas Shepherd against her robot-brother Harlan, who has gone amok.
Alvorlig sygdom ved coronavirus: en gennemgang af virus patologi og effekter ved infektion
Ét år efter SARS-CoV-2, eller coronavirus, første gang ramte Danmark, har vi nu et mere klart billede af hvilke kliniske og biologiske karakteristika en infektion med corona føre med sig. Her er en gennemgang af forskellige scenarier.
At vaske hænder beskytter mod virus men hvorfor?
”Vask dine hænder tit” lyder rĂĄdet fra myndighederne i kampen mod coronavirus. Men hvorfor egentlig? Her kommer lidt om den nye coronavirus livscyklus og hvorfor hĂĄndvask med sæbe kan redde liv. Coronavirus – som egentlig hedder SARS-CoV-2 – bestĂĄr groft …
Aiming for Adaption – an essay on germline gene-editing
Every year the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics has an essay competition for students. I submitted the essay below, which didn’t get selected, but having spent some time on it, I am sharing it here, in the hopes that …
Forest plot showing survival ratio’s in ggplot2 by emulating Fivethirtyeight’s theme
I am interested in what a certain gene’s overexpression means in terms of cancer patient survival. A standard way of visualizing this sort of data is using Kaplan-Meier curves, as shown below. But I really wanted an overview of many …
If a PhD is like a marathon…
I sometime hear that doing a PhD is like doing a marathon. If thats so what tricks from running applies to your PhD? Here’s my attempt at stretching the analogy as thin as possible: It’s your run The most important …
Generating an article network using rentrez and igraph in R
One thing I often find myself trying to do is to read up on relevant literature within a new field. Often it’s difficult to identify seminal papers as a new-comer, so I’ve often wondered if there would be a way …
Om myrer og DTU-studerende
Et sjovt studie fra forskere pĂĄ University of Lausanne i Schweiz er netop blevet offentliggjort. Her markerede man hver enkel myre i en koloni med smĂĄ ’trackerer’, sĂĄ man pĂĄ den mĂĄde kunne opsamle detaljeret data om deres myrer-hverdag og …
Er KBU lodtrækningen tilfældig?
Den halvĂĄrlige lodtrækning om turnus-pladserne er netop overstĂĄet. Som altid er der nok at sludre om – hvem har fĂĄet gode og dĂĄrlige numre? Kan man fĂĄ et ”godt” turnus forløb? Og er lodtrækningen nu ogsĂĄ foregĂĄet tilfældigt? Det sidste …