Dan Jacobson

1 week ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange |Dan Jacobson

An at-home spit test to identify patients at risk of prostate cancer, using a polygenic risk score, has been shown to outperform current testing methods. The initial results of the BARCODE1 study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that for men with the highest risk of prostate cancer, this new test based on risk-associated genetic variants was more accurate than the standard NHS-applied blood test, which detects the enzyme protein-specific antigen (PSA).

1 month ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange |Dan Jacobson

A child who was treated in utero for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is showing no signs of the condition over two years later. The child was treated as a fetus with risdiplam, an orally administered drug consumed by her mother during the weeks prior to her birth, at St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. While some abnormalities were seen, specific evidence of SMA such as muscle weakness and decreased motor function have not been observed.

2 months ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange |Dan Jacobson

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical MysteryBy Lawrence IngrassiaPublished by Henry Holt and CompanyISBN-10: 1250837227, ISBN-13: 978-1250837226Buy this book from Amazon UKLawrence Ingrassia, former deputy managing editor at the New York Times, lies at the centre of the Ingrassia-Iacono family tree, surrounded by his ancestors, children, siblings, and nephews.

2 months ago | gis.stackexchange.com | Dan Jacobson

My first step in understanding ogrlineref is to understand the beginning of the man page,DESCRIPTIONThe ogrlineref program can be used to: o create a linear reference file from input dataHere is my road.csv file,WKT"LINESTRING(0 0,1 0,1 1)"Can ogrlineref do anything with it at this point? Probably not. I am guessing I probably need a file of milestones to do anything interesting.

Nov 30, 2024 | gis.stackexchange.com | Dan Jacobson

Alas,https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/vector/geojson.htmldoesn't say what to do. Yes one surely could do it in one step, but howto has never been documented. Howeverhttps://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/vector/csv.html#reading-csv-containing-spatial-informationcertainly does say what to do. Therefore consider converting your GeoJSON into CSV first.