CRISPR- A review

The paper that I want to talk about today is The CRISPR Toolkit for Genome Editing and Beyond by Mazhar Adli, published in Nature Communications in 2018. My rather elementary knowledge of Biology did not make this easy, and it was fun to watch countless youtube videos to try and get to grips with thisContinue reading “CRISPR- A review”

Neuromorphic Computing

I’ve searched far and wide for an easy to understand review paper on Neuromorphic computing, and finally got lucky with Neuromorphic Computing: From Materials to Systems Architecture. This is a report from a roundtable conference organized in 2015 to discuss the future of Neuromorphic computing. The organizing committee of the conference comprised of Evan SchullerContinue reading “Neuromorphic Computing”

How, on Earth, we took a picture of a black hole

The paper that I will be writing about today is Computational Imaging for VLBI Reconstruction by Katie Bouman, et al. The image processing algorithm explained in this paper was the reason for the first photo that humanity ever took of a black hole. Introduction At the time that this paper was written, there was anContinue reading “How, on Earth, we took a picture of a black hole”