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Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

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Kind of sad how much food-diversity is lost within a century.

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This infographic shows a reduction of produce variety in the last century as a direct result of big businesses (i.e. Monsanto) controlling the world seed supply. It's time to change our food system!!

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Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that…

Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that…

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Really useful to just have an R package containing the data of your paper so that people can play around with it without having to waste tons of time finding all the data and matching it! Great job +Jacob Degner 🙂

http://goo.gl/zp4Zd

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Bioconductor – dsQTL
dsQTL. dsQTL, data excerpt from Degner et al. 2012 Nature letter. Bioconductor version: Release (2.10). dsQTL, excerpt from Degner et al. 2012 Nature letter on DNA variants associated with DnaseI hype…


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Three papers showing the strength of stem-cells to help battle diseases and baldness…

Three papers showing the strength of stem-cells to help battle diseases and baldness…

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Three papers showing the strength of stem-cells to help battle diseases and baldness (in mice).

"Three studies published this week show that introducing new cells into mice can replace diseased cells — whether hair, eye or heart — and help to restore the normal function of those cells. These proof-of-principle studies now have researchers setting their sights on clinical trials to see if the procedures could work in humans."

http://goo.gl/j8SrD

Regenerative medicine repairs mice from top to toe
Three separate studies in mice show normal function can be restored to hair, eye and heart cells.

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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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