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Plans use the air spaces between its cells to scatter light, modifying the path of light passing through its tissues. This creates a light gradient that helps seedlings determine where light is coming from.

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How much protein do you really need?

What the studies indicate.

nature.com/articles/d41...

Why the simplest explanation isn’t always the best

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sometimes, on simple way of describing the complexity of the data exists, at least not one that humans can readily interpret.

Then, faithfully representing the data is at odds with finding simple explanations.

“𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑟”

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A basic intro with some strategies how to avoid mistakes when using dimensionality reduction.

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youtu.be/nIB-WjWzDSc?...

Spatial sorting enables comprehensive characterization of liver zonation

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Even when the overall correlation is positive, many functional sets of proteins exhibit distinct regulation.

Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water.

Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...

Large models are difficult to evaluate.
Fundamentally difficult.

This difficulty is not well communicated in enthusiastic social media posts advertising predictive performance.

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open.substack.com/pub/gmdbioin...

For centuries, scientific research has been a global international collaboration.

It is usually disproportionately advanced by the scientists working in the wealthiest countries and benefits the world.