When epigenetic clocks cross populations
A model can measure biology precisely and still fail the population where it is used. What we owe people a method was never calibrated for.
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Field Notes is where I write through the questions that follow me across clinics, laboratories, organisations and ordinary life — before they become polished certainty.
A model can measure biology precisely and still fail the population where it is used. What we owe people a method was never calibrated for.
Read the note →Diagnostic pipelines carry assumptions about reference genomes, ancestry and infrastructure. Importing them wholesale imports their blind spots too.
The value of an opportunity is the responsibility it creates, and what becomes possible for others because of it.
named by fate, born early, still becoming. my first signpost.
Three threads I keep returning to: the science, the systems, and the people inside both. More to come.