A machine-learning algorithm has been used to optimise the allocation of COVID tests at the Greek border. Read more in this excellent N&V by Ziad Obermeyer Ziad Obermeyer go.nature.com/3u3II8N

New study on role of primary school children in transmission⬇️ ▪️Genetic sequencing done on all positive cases ▪️Most household transmission "originated from within the school" ▪️"Children may play a larger role in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 than previously assumed" [1/3]

Excellent talk by Heikki Kuusanmäki on predicting response to venetoclax+azacitidine in AML using ex vivo drug screening #ASH21

Ex vivo drug sensitivity testing predicts venetoclax+azacitidine treatment responses in AML. VenEx trial interim results presented at #ASH21

Άρθρο μας με Sotirios Tsiodras στο SJPH για θνητότητα 🇬🇷 διασωληνωμένων #COVID19 ασθενών σε σχέση με το φόρτο του συστήματος υγείας, ως αρχές Μαϊου 2020. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Αναδεικνύει τις χαμηλές "αντοχές" του ΕΣΥ, που δεν αφορούν μόνο τη διαθεσιμότητα ΜΕΘ. *Thread*

"Omicron's milder so why get vaccinated now?" Omicron:

Hello world! I’m happy to present you the Hematoscope Lab oscarbruck.fi/hematoscope

Welcome to join our team! We value also applications from researchers not pursuing master's or PhD degrees. Feel free to share. #ComputerVision #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #leusm #BigData

The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis

Are physicians ready to adopt clinical decision support tools to interpret molecular profiling data? 2 months since publication (bit.ly/3aNEU64), the IPSS-M calculator (mds-risk-model.com) has computed risk for 17,640K MDS patient profiles from >60 countries.

New pre-clinical study uncovers a therapeutically actionable molecular mechanism of #azacitidine mediated thrombocytopenia in #MDS #AML by Okoye-Okafor et al. Britta Will Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official EinsteinSCI: bit.ly/3AM69Hq Duke Sallos Amit Verma Aditi Shastri, MD #Leukemia

Very excited to see this online! Many thanks to project lead, Dr. Cynthia Okoye-Okafor, our fantastic collaborators, and Journal of Experimental Medicine for a smooth publishing process.

Great session at #FunctionalPrecisionMedicine for blood cancer workshop showing a lot about ex vivo assays and clinical trials. Very clear benefit using the assays on VenEx trial, great work by Kontro Lab

Great to be at the Functional #PrecisionMedicine for #BloodCancer Workshop and Symposium. Exciting yesterday on FPM and drug screening to stratify patients to therapy. Now Day2 and Anthony Letai MD PhD speaking on what we have to do to prime cancer cells to therapy! The Society for Functional Precision Medicine Kimmo Porkka

Great start of the second day at #FunctionalPrecisionMedicine for blood cancer symposium with focus on immunotherapy. Nice to see so much great work produced in transatlantic collaborations. The Society for Functional Precision Medicine

Next time you hear someone say "tHe sHoTs r KiLliNg peOpLe!" remind them which group is actually dying covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

when you’re in the middle of an experiment and halfway you realize you’re out of a reagent

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal. It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability. It did not.

"We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence" - Melanie Mitchell

Good data analysis is tricky. It requires knowledge, training, & thought. That's not gatekeeping, it's a fact for most scientific tasks! Machine learning tools may be tempting, but naive data-driven analyses can be dangerously misleading. We need more thought not less.