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Category Archives: Research
Breast Milk is Best but…does it also contain Virtues / Vices?
Hello everyone, my current MSCA COFUND TIAS TIES project is about decolonising ‘scientific’ motherhood titled ‘Mothers, Mothercraft & Materialities: Urban India and Transnational Histories of ‘Scientific’ Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’. I am trained in the field of … Continue reading
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Made In The Shade
So, I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Made in Scotland and I co-edited it with my good friends and colleagues Simon Frith and John Williamson. You can get it on Amazon and other places. But why, dear reader, … Continue reading
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Pandemic Screenings: The Covid-19 pandemic and the digital screen
The Covid-19 pandemic elevated digital screens to the core of everyday life. Screens can be found everywhere, including museums and galleries, stock exchanges, train stations, aeroplane seats, banks, food courts, record stores, gas stations, office desks and in the palm … Continue reading
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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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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
Saako evoluutionäkökulman yhdistää kielenmuutokseen?
Halusin nuorna tyttönä elää keskiajalla. Hoitaa eläimiä ja elää metsästä. Sittemmin tajusin, että mielikuva ihmisen ja luonnon harmonisesta suhteesta oli vahvasti liioiteltu ja että ihmisillä oli tapana kuolla nuorena ja sairaina. Päädyin vain tutkimaan menneisyyttä. Otin akateemista vauhtia ekologisesta lajiutumisesta, … Continue reading
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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
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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