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HDSAI - Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen
6 days ago
Pandemic Preparedness requires deep and comprehensive understanding. If you agree and want to know more, sign up to Mark Khurana's Phd defense on 21 November at MƦrsk Tower at University of Copenhagen Details š
healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar...
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PhD defence: Mark Poulsen Khurana
Large-scale phylogenetic inference and pathogen genomics in the era of SARS-CoV-2 and beyond
https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar/q4---2025/phd-defence-mark-poulsen-khurana/
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Tamar Haspel
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Terrific
@scientificdiscovery.dev
post on randomized controlled trials in
@ourworldindata.org
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ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
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Moving to a walkable city adds 1,100 steps a day š¶āāļø AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly š ļø Engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive š All in this week's edition of HealthByte!
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HealthByte 038
This week: Moving to a walkable city adds 1,100 steps a day, AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly, and engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive.
https://open.substack.com/pub/byteofhealth/p/healthbyte-038?r=ye3vg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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This week in HealthByte 037: The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimerās trigger š¤ Link to the newsletter here:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
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HealthByte 037
This week: The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimerās trigger.
https://byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte-037
3 months ago
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This week in HealthByte 035: Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
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HealthByte 035
This week: Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
https://open.substack.com/pub/byteofhealth/p/healthbyte-035?r=ye3vg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Carl T. Bergstrom
5 months ago
Remember when MDPI used questionable practices to siphon traffic from big five publishersā journals? Never thought Iād see the shoe on the other foot.
add a skeleton here at some point
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reposted by
HDSAI - Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen
6 months ago
Did you remember to subscribe to A Byte of Health?
#Science
#substack
@ucph.bsky.social
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Amazing essay on how technological change is forcing us into an evolutionary bottleneck: "a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction." Highly recommend reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Hereās How to Survive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/extinction-technology-culture.html
6 months ago
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MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research
6 months ago
š NEW | Genetic Study shows that Wildlife Trade sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@davidlrobertson.bsky.social
@spyroslytras.bsky.social
@bljog.bsky.social
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The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...
https://cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00353-8
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A whole year of newsletter'ing! One year ago, we launched A Byte of Health! Since then, our team has published 27 newsletters with over 3,400 reads š„³ If youāre interested in concise summaries of the latest breakthroughs in health and medicine, check out the newsletter:
byteofhealth.substack.com
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A Byte of Health | Mark Khurana | Substack
A biweekly newsletter exploring the latest breakthroughs in science and medicine. Click to read A Byte of Health, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
https://byteofhealth.substack.com/
8 months ago
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Jonas L Juul
8 months ago
I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness. Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community. Read more..:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Ph.D. and postdoc positions in Data Science for epidemic preparedness at the NERDS research group
The NERDS (NEtwoRks, Data, and Society) team at the IT University of Copenhagen welcomes applications from aspiring PhD students and postdocs in the areas of Da
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181783&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=1282
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This week in A Byte of Health š¬ 1. Western diets during pregnancy linked to ADHD & autism 2. Engineered therapeutic mitochondria may aid organ repair 3. Annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise š Read the full HealthByte 027 newsletter here:
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HealthByte 027
This week: A Western diet during pregnancy is linked to ADHD and autism in children, engineered mitochondria may support organ repair, and annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise.
https://open.substack.com/pub/byteofhealth/p/healthbyte-027?r=ye3vg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
8 months ago
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Kyle Griffin
8 months ago
DespiteĀ Elon Musk'sĀ claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary. In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isnāt True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the worldās richest men slash aid for the worldās poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html
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Mathilde MB Sloth
8 months ago
We have raised concerns about the study methodology in a Danish study about hormonal IUDs and the risk of breast cancer in a Letter to the Editor in
@jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Breast Cancer and Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Systems
To the Editor We are concerned that some of the methodological approaches in a recent study1 linking use of LNG-IUSs to increased risk of breast cancer may lead to spurious associations and limit the ...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2831023
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This week in our (free!) research newsletter š°š 1. Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging 2. Neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs 3. Aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
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HealthByte 026
This week: Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging, neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs, and aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis.
https://byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte-026
8 months ago
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Need a quick overview of breakthroughs in medical research over the last couple of weeks? We've got you covered in our HealthBytes newsletter! Link to this week's edition:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
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HealthByte 025
This week: Vitamin D, omega-3, and exercise slow aging, reduced yellow fever vaccine doses show promise, and less frequent mammograms are as effective as annual screenings for breast cancer.
https://byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte-025
9 months ago
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reposted by
Eric Topol
9 months ago
New
@nature.com
How
#AI
can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats
nature.com/articles/s41...
a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
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reposted by
Moritz Kraemer
9 months ago
AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy. Paper free to read:
rdcu.be/eaxEw
Summary here:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
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Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics
Nature - This Perspective considers the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.
https://rdcu.be/eaxEw
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reposted by
Ryan Hisner
9 months ago
Looking forward to digging into this. Co-authors include
@mghafari.bsky.social
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@mugkraemer.bsky.social
. "Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections"
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.10.25321987v1
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