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Well, that is a statement..! As an MD PhD with over 60 (co-)publications including multiple in top 1% journals I can say for sure that this is untrue. Of course this may be differe…

Well, you're absolutely the target audience. As you can see my focus so far is mostly on (neuro) oncology as this is my domain of interest/work. Let me know if you have any topic r…

No problem, and thanks for the request! #insulin-resistance is now added: https://www.summarized.science/topics/insulin-resistance/ . I ran it for each month of 2025, if you want t…

As a pathologist and neuro-oncology researcher, to save myself time trying to keep up with scientific literature, I'm working on https://www.summarized.science/ . Based topics of i…

Depends on the industry/company but for me it works like this: when the holiday is on a Friday (my day off) it's bad luck and I don't get an extra day. Simultaneously though, when …

There is no way for us to know if the drug is a "revulotionary cancer drug" if we don't test it in a double blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT). Indeed it would be disappoint…

Excellent point. One thing I notice in the discussion about AZ is the fact that the risk for thrombosis is not really put into context. One very strong comparison is this: when tak…

I think the appeal to the tidyverse "universe" is the readability of the code. Especially to novel users of R (and there are a lot of people in science that have to generate a plot…

Perhaps aimed at a lower age group, but I think https://www.e-learningforkids.org/ should also be mentioned. They provide free primary school education for all kids. Currently most…

Is there any validation that the user is actually from the selected college? It seems I can write a review about a random dorm just by selecting it. What about using the student’s …

"My hunch is that Google has a oncology/immunology platform" As an MD, soon to have a PhD in oncology immunology, I always wonder what project Google could be working on in this ar…

Finally a topic on hackernews that I am getting my PhD in..! Anyway, do you have any data indicating what percentage of circRNA is "free" in the plasma versus inside of other entit…

I assume they have to pay taxes over this.

A private pilot license (PPL) does not allow for commercial flying (charging passengers). To charge passengers to pilot requires a commercial pilot license.

Very far for Dutch standards of course. Maastricht is only 2-2.5 hours away from cities like Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. For other countries this would be considered close ne…

In The Netherlands a case is usually dropped if evidence is provided that the conversation between a lawyer and his/her client was recorded and analysed.

This book covers a lot of the material: http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook/d...

Is it really needed to have a 1226 x 515 px header image for a blog? I understand that some of the readers are using the latest "retina" Macbooks or 52-inch displays, but on my cou…

Out of hospital CPR has very slim survival chances. Being on a plane will result in at least 30 minutes of CPR even before an ambulance can take over. Chances on surviving that are…

Now we only have to wait for the respons of the "attacking gunmen"... will they increase their firepower? Body armor? Hand grenades? Tanks? Fighting violence with violence will onl…

I've heard that argument about Korea ever since I started following and working in eSports (around 2004ish). Yet, I'm still waiting on that big breakthrough in the USA/Europe. I'm …

Why is there need for a plugin to do this? Why not use CSS: position: fixed?