Inspired by her Aunt

Posted on: September 22nd, 2023 by admin No Comments

In 2015, Dr Canan Dağdeviren (seen right) was busy with her post-doctoral fellowship at MIT in Boston when she received news that […]

Inspired by her Aunt

Posted on: September 22nd, 2023 by admin No Comments

In 2015, Dr Canan Dağdeviren (seen right) was busy with her post-doctoral fellowship at MIT in Boston when she received news that […]

Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

Posted on: September 15th, 2023 by admin No Comments

For over 30 years, editors at the Annals of Improbable Research have awarded the Ig Nobel Prizes which are parodies of the […]

Will Radiologists Become Redundant?

Posted on: September 8th, 2023 by admin No Comments

Two papers were published this week, one in Radiology that compared the performance of radiologists with an AI algorithm in reading mammograms, […]

Screening Doesn’t Save Lives?

Posted on: September 1st, 2023 by admin No Comments

Earlier this week researchers from Norway, led by Dr Michael Bretthauer (seen right), published a paper in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Estimated […]

We Want Answers!

Posted on: August 25th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

A recent paper in JAMA Network Open, entitled “Patterns in cancer incidence among people younger than 50 years in the US,” analysed […]

Find It Early Act

Posted on: August 18th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

It’s hard to believe but today marks 12 years since I started writing these Friday blogs, which means there have […]

Finally – A Well-Executed Study on AI

Posted on: August 11th, 2023 by admin

There are currently more than 20 artificial intelligence (AI) applications for breast imaging approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in […]

Student Topples Stanford’s President

Posted on: August 4th, 2023 by admin

On 9 December 2022 we reported that the president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prize-winning neuroscientist, and former biotech leader (seen […]

Neural Networks and Tumours

Posted on: July 28th, 2023 by admin

Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) invites applications from young scientists for the Wachtel Cancer Research […]

Peer Review of Grants by AI?

Posted on: July 21st, 2023 by admin 2 Comments

It was 30 years ago, when I was a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville […]