Sunday night, you are lying in bed. You feel like your heart is aching. Is it a mini-heart attack, or a heart break ☹? You wonder how real heart attack would feel like. You start searching the symptoms and it is not long until the results come up; Google thinks there are few options; you […]
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Welcome back to my blog! As we are approaching Christmas, I thought it might be a good idea to spice up this third post with a few festive metaphors, so hopefully explaining Mendelian Randomization (or MR, for short) using festive cheer and productivity won’t be too jarring for you. So, if you remember from my […]
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When I was first told I had to write a blog, two thoughts shot through my head in quick succession. Relief at not having to write an essay, then oh no I can’t write an essay. After 3 years of essay training, suddenly being told “write whatever you want” is a daunting prospect to anyone. […]
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My name is Simi and I love immunology. Why Immunology? This is a question I ask myself every day… and admittedly even now as I write this blog. What if I told you that we encounter billions of weird, gross and potentially harmful foreign substances, better known as antigens, that want to start a war inside […]
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Firstly, if you haven’t read my previous blog post, it’d probably be a good idea if you did that before continuing. Otherwise, none of what’s written here will make much sense and you would have also missed the most important(?) part; the bit about my cats. On a serious note, the purpose of these blog […]
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Here we are back at it again. It feels nice to write after a long, tiring week 🙂 There is a part of me that craves writing quite often, but not that articulate, boring (no offense to the lecturers) academic writing but writing as I wish from my heart. Today’s topic is to explain why […]
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