Prof Psychiatric Genetics KCL. Lead King's Genomics facility, Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) Study, and the UK Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI-UK). Gratitude to my wonderful research group, staff, and collaborators.
Gerome Breen
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Add a new drug, CETP inhibitor, to the ways beyond lifestyle that we can reduce p-tau 217, the key biomarker for risk of Alzheimer’s disease
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Stryer
#Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a #tsunami warning and advisory for the Pacific coast from #Hokkaido to #Okinawa. The estimate of maximum wave height is now expected to be 3 meter. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/gene...
Dr. Lucky Tran
'The DHSC is launching a chickenpox vaccination programme which will protect around half a million children each year. And, from January 2026, eligible children will get an MMRV vaccine to protect against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.'
Report @mirror.co.uk
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Eric Topol
<big sigh>. As a rule of thumb, if you gather more multi-modal data, you are going to need more samples (patients) rather than less to be confident of results. Importantly you need some sort of credible belief that for the measurements you propose to do you have some hope of the analysis working
Spot-on from @nixonsimon.bsky.social
Yes - I think the one exception is the first time you study a phenotype as black swans may be found. When that not found (unfortunately they are rare). So suggests standard nested - from initial small core multi-modal, then larger and lighter clinical, then online remote sampling population level.
Tim Bale
Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.
He went alone and beat the odds.
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