New publication from the mCRC study in mid-Norway: "Serum small RNAs in metastatic colorectal cancer predict response to chemotherapy and characterize high-risk patients" rdcu.be/dMKZN
The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body: ~2 trillion cells collectively weighting ~1.2 kg (40% are lymphocytes, 10% macrophages) pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…
“Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology”
Another example of natural language pretraining leading to improvements in a seemingly unrelated task, this time generative modeling of gene expression profiles
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