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Growing a community: building the Plant Cell Atlas

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In addition to academia, plant scientists are sought by agricultural organisations, the food industry, pharmaceutical developers, government labs, and environmental management institutions. On occasion, I do some research by helping people in the lab with data curation and data analysis and, on rare occasions, experiments!

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Can artificial intelligence detect hidden heart attacks?

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Pathway from school to machine learning in medicine • At school and post-16 years, study mathematics and computing to learn about statistics, data analysis and computer programming. This highlights the important role of future practitioners who will help to usher in this new age of medicine.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Computational tools are used throughout the pharmaceutical industry. Alistair develops super-resolution microscopes and new data analysis techniques which he uses to collaborate on experiments with other biologists and medics. The models that Sarah creates help to solve this problem.