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Super Powers
Today, I thought about the cartoons my son watches— Paw Patrol and PJ Masks . It’s hard not to go a little crazy watching how...
Gamze Bulut
Apr 212 min read


Music to My Ears
Yesterday, I took my kids to their piano lesson at Melody Magic Studios . The teachers there are not just educators—they’re musicians in...
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Apr 112 min read


What Part of a Veggie Pizza Should You Actually Eat?
Pizza is everywhere in the U.S.—and not just on dinner tables. It’s in school cafeterias, office parties, airport terminals, and birthday...
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Apr 102 min read


🧪 Bias, Confounders, and Clinical Trial Design: A Hidden Side of Evidence
Clinical trials are often called the gold standard in medical research — and for good reason. They’re designed to test whether a...
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Apr 53 min read


Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis - Study Notes
Have you ever wondered how survival probabilities are calculated? Well, even if you haven’t, here are my study notes to spark your...
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Apr 12 min read


Clinical Trials 101: Understanding Phases 1, 2, and 3
Every treatment we use today—from common painkillers to cancer therapies—has gone through a rigorous process called clinical trials....
Gamze Bulut
Mar 312 min read


Understanding Poisson Distribution and Modeling in R
This week in my 602 course I learned about the Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution is a fundamental tool in statistics for...
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Mar 272 min read


Pregnancy & Healthy Eating
👶🥗 Pregnancy & Healthy Eating — We’ve Got Work To Do A new NIH study reveals a surprising truth: most people in the U.S. don’t follow...
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Mar 251 min read


Healthy Aging
🧠🥦 Want to age well? Your midlife diet really matters -- big time. A new long-term study in Nature Medicine followed 100,000+ people...
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Mar 252 min read


Crusty Bread and Joint Pain: Is There a Connection?
Do you suffer from joint pain? Do you love crusty, crispy breads, toasted breads, and chips? These could be linked! In Turkey, bread is a...
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Mar 202 min read


Experiments and Sanity
Sometimes our experiments get very complicated and there are some tricks that can help prepare better. Today I want to share with you...
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Mar 181 min read


Can We Prevent Cancer? 🛡️🧬
In my last post, we talked about what happens when a cell becomes a cancer cell. Today, let’s talk about environmental and preventable...
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Mar 182 min read


🍖 The Hidden Danger of AGEs in Food
We often talk about ultra-processed foods, but how they’re cooked matters too! 🍗🔥 When foods undergo high heat processing—like frying,...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 181 min read


🥐 Ultra-Processed Foods – How Much Are We Really Eating?
Did you know? A recent NIH study found that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up 70% of the American diet! 🍔🥤 🔬 This study, led by Dr....
Gamze Bulut
Mar 181 min read


What Happens When a Cell Becomes a Cancer Cell? 🧬🔬
You may recall my recent post where I talked about “What a Cell Does in a Day?” 🕰️Today, let’s talk about cancer cells. At their core,...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 182 min read


🧬 What Do Your Cells Do in a Day?
Ever wonder what your cells are up to? 🤔 The first lecture in Molecular Cell Biology always starts with just how small cells are. A...
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Mar 182 min read


How does tSNE work?
A Deep Dive into Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Introduction In high-dimensional data visualization, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor...
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Mar 172 min read


Famous Swiss Roll example
Understanding Dimension Reduction: PCA vs. t-SNE vs. UMAP with the Swiss Roll When dealing with high-dimensional data, it is often...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 173 min read


What is "Dimension Reduction"?
Today I am trying to understand the logic behind dimension reduction (DR). I wanted to read and write about some simple examples to...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 173 min read
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