En medicinsk blog om sundhed, sygdom og kroppens biologi.
Læs om hverdags fysiologi og hvordan den fungere.
Bloggen skrives af Mike Barnkob der læser medicin på Syddansk Universitet og har en sær fetch for underlige medicinske sager.
Argumenter for en Corona exit-strategi der benytter sig af kontaktopsporing og isolering Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:33:05 +0000 Jeg tillod at kloge mig omkring hvilken Corona-strategi vi skulle sigte efter i Danmark på P1 Orientering den 11. april 2020. Her er mine noter. Jeg vil forsøge opdaterer dem med referencer løbende. 1. Hvilken exit strategi skal vi sigte efter? Baggrund Regeringens nedlukning var helt rigtig og fornuftig, men når vi diskuterer exit-strategier tegner […]
At vaske hænder beskytter mod virus men hvorfor? Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:48:49 +0000 ”Vask dine hænder tit” lyder rådet fra myndighederne i kampen mod coronavirus. Men hvorfor egentlig? Her kommer lidt om den nye coronavirus livscyklus og hvorfor håndvask med sæbe kan redde liv. Coronavirus – som egentlig hedder SARS-CoV-2 – består groft sagt af to dele: en konvolut og et brev. Uden begge disse dele tilstede kan […]
26 books in 2018 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:59:16 +0000 I wanted to read more in 2018, and set myself the goal of reading 26 books during the year – one every second week, which seemed reasonable to me. To document the project, and also dwell and develop my thoughts on each book a bit more, I decided to start a book-blog over at 26books.mikebarnkob.dk. […]
Aiming for Adaption – an essay on germline gene-editing Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:57:00 +0000 Every year the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics has an essay competition for students. I submitted the essay below, which didn’t get selected, but having spent some time on it, I am sharing it here, in the hopes that somebody will find it interesting. — Aiming for Adaption Abstract In an increasingly interconnected and […]
Forest plot showing survival ratio’s in ggplot2 by emulating Fivethirtyeight’s theme Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:15:01 +0000 I am interested in what a certain gene’s overexpression means in terms of cancer patient survival. A standard way of visualizing this sort of data is using Kaplan-Meier curves, as shown below. But I really wanted an overview of many cancers, not just one, to be able to quickly see what effects the expression has […]
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