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Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis - Study Notes
Have you ever wondered how survival probabilities are calculated? Well, even if you havenât, here are my study notes to spark your...
Gamze Bulut
Apr 1, 20252 min read
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Clinical Trials 101: Understanding Phases 1, 2, and 3
Every treatment we use todayâfrom common painkillers to cancer therapiesâhas gone through a rigorous process called clinical trials....
Gamze Bulut
Mar 31, 20252 min read
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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...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 27, 20252 min read
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Pregnancy & Healthy Eating
đ¶đ„ Pregnancy & Healthy Eating â Weâve Got Work To Do A new NIH study reveals a surprising truth: most people in the U.S. donât follow...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 25, 20251 min read
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Healthy Aging
đ§ đ„Š Want to age well? Your midlife diet really matters -- big time. A new long-term study in Nature Medicine followed 100,000+ people...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 25, 20252 min read
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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...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 20, 20252 min read
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Navigating Change: A Personal Reflection
What Does It Mean to Change? I was born naked, like all of you. I went to school as normal. đ When I started college, I began wearing a...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 19, 20253 min read
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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...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20251 min read
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Can We Prevent Cancer? đĄïžđ§Ź
In my last post, we talked about what happens when a cell becomes a cancer cell. Today, letâs talk about environmental and preventable...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20252 min read
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đ The Hidden Danger of AGEs in Food
We often talk about ultra-processed foods, but how theyâre cooked matters too! đđ„ When foods undergo high heat processingâlike frying,...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20251 min read
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đ„ Ultra-Processed Foods â 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! đđ„€ đŹ This study, led by Dr....
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20251 min read
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What Happens When a Cell Becomes a Cancer Cell? đ§ŹđŹ
You may recall my recent post where I talked about âWhat a Cell Does in a Day?â đ°ïžToday, letâs talk about cancer cells. At their core,...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20252 min read
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đ§Ź What Do Your Cells Do in a Day?
Ever wonder what your cells are up to? đ€ The first lecture in Molecular Cell Biology always starts with just how small cells are. A...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20252 min read
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Hitch hiking Through the Subconscious: A Journey with t-SNE and Logistic Regression
Yesterday in My Dream⊠I told the driver of a car that I hitchhiked that I was doing a PhD in Computer Science. (What kind of...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 18, 20252 min read
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How does tSNE work?
A Deep Dive into Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Introduction In high-dimensional data visualization, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 17, 20252 min read
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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 17, 20253 min read
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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 17, 20253 min read
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Joy of Life
Trying to beautify the place you are in, shows your joy of life. Joy of life does not pour as rain. You have to cultivate it in...
Gamze Bulut
Mar 17, 20251 min read
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