Our paper Markar et.al: "Assessment of a Noninvasive Exhaled Breath Test for the Diagnosis of Oesophagogastric Cancer" published in JAMA Oncology 2018 (IF=20.9).

Max Delbruck’s 1949 paper on lack of “absolute phenomena” in biology. 1: The theory (of evolution) states that evolution has progressed through natural selection of the fittest … the theory is tautological, since the organisms best fitted are defined as those which are selected

Insight 2: “…every biological phenomenon is essentially an historical one, one unique situation in the infinite total complex of life.” – no wonder that results in bio-papers frequently show wide spread, even contrarian results, with questionable reproducibility.

“ … (cells) do not rise every day by spontaneous generation from the nonliving matter - if they did, they would really be reproducible and timeless phenomena, comparable to the crystalization of a solution, and would belong to subject matter of physics proper.”

FT, Fashion, 25/Aug: "Western civilisation's slide into decadence, degradation and self-distruction ... The process is not, however, even or continuous. ... sometimes so gradual as to be imperceptible. Only rarely do moments of irretrievable change announce themselves"😂

“Thanks European Research Council (ERC) for awarding us an ERC PoC grant “DNASensPROT”: led by Christofer Toumazou. In collaboration with DnaNudge.”Khalid Mirza,Jesus Rodriguez Manzano, Sara de Mateo López and Konstantin Nikolic . More details: erc.europa.eu/news/erc-proof…

Would be nice if sport’s commentators stop using the word ‘academic’ to describe unimportant and inconsequential efforts, as in: “They scored a goal in the last minutes of the game but that was only academic”.

Neuro-epistemology 😊

PhD Scholarships at University of West London. The project areas are not fixed, but I prefer Learning and Intelligence in biological systems and machines (Spiking NNs, Neuromorphic etc), computational biology/neurosci and neuromodulation devices. jobs.ac.uk/job/CCB695/phd…

A new MSc course in Biomedical Engineering at UWL, start Sep 22. Mostly about introducing fundamental concepts on Biosignals, Healthcare Technologies (mostly around digital health) and some Maths&Stats (@thomas_b_madsen) to understand what it all means. Course leader Konstantin Nikolic