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Category Archives: Personal thoughts
Leveraging the use of population data toward improving health and care for everyone
I always find population study, a study that is conducted in representative samples from the population, to be fascinating. Especially due to its potential to process various information toward beneficial policies and actions. So, when I first learned about bioinformatics … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, bioinformatics, health research, population data
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“Fund people not project”, is the project-based funding scheme adequate?
The idea to write about project-based funding schemes for this blog piece originated from the recent French elections (yes there’s actually a link there). With these elections came a new government, with a new Minister of State for Higher Education … Continue reading
Metals for the existence and applications of oligonucleotides with metal-mediated base-pairs
For our body to function, we need to supply it with a variety of nutrients that we get from our diet. However, our bodies can not use the food as it is when it enters our digestive system. The process … Continue reading
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Tagged antisense oligonucleotides, biochemistry, chemistry
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Sugar boost for photosynthetic microorganisms to improve biotechnology applications
Today’s society is still to a great extent dependent on fossil fuels because we use them plenty to e.g. run our vehicles, heat our homes, provide us with electricity and power different industrial sectors. As is well known, fossil fuels … Continue reading
Vastaväittäjänä vieraassa maassa
Väitöstilaisuus on selkeä virstanpylväs, siirtymäriitti tieteentekijöiden yhteisön jäseneksi. Oman väitöksen lisäksi olen päässyt seuraamaan yhden ohjattavan ja monen tutkijakollegan väitöstä. Vaikka Suomen järjestelmässä väitöstilaisuus on seremoniallinen, tunnelma on usein tiivis – jännityksestä kustoksen ilmoittamasta väitöksen alusta hänen toiseen puheenvuoroonsa, joka … Continue reading
My first year as a collegium researcher in Turku is behind and now is a good time to look back how the year has gone by. Already for my undergraduate and graduate studies I have been in Turku so coming … Continue reading
Early life nutrition for lifelong benefit: An insight from gut microbiome research into my baby’s feeding journey
Over the past six years, I received various opportunities to explore a small-but-diverse universe, a collection of microorganisms that lives within us, known as the human microbiome. This fast-developing research field of human microbiome led me to venture out from … Continue reading
When do we stop being students?
I was out for a fancier-than-usual lunch with some postdoc and researcher colleagues when the waiter casually presented us with an innocent, yet loaded question, “Are you students?”. All of us were in our mid-thirties. A full decade had passed … Continue reading
Bioteknologian keinoin homemyrkkyjä vastaan
Kirjoittaja: tutkijatohtori Riikka Peltomaa, Luonnontieteiden, lääketieteen ja tekniikan tutkijakollegiumi Homemyrkyt eli mykotoksiinit ovat homesienten tuottamia yhdisteitä, jotka voivat aiheuttaa ihmisille ja eläimille vakavia terveydellisiä haittoja sekä äkillisesti että pitkäaikaisen altistumisen seurauksena. Otollisissa olosuhteissa näitä myrkkyjä tuottavat sienilajit voivat muodostaa homekasvustoja … Continue reading
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Tagged bioteknologia, homemyrkky, mykotoksiini
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A Pessimist in the Academia
I am a bit of a pessimist. It is not that I do not believe things will work out in the end, it is just that I do not think they are likely to work out for the best. Presumably, … Continue reading
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