@RCOptimalHealth

Twitter account for the Research Centre for Optimal Health, based at the University of Westminster.

 London, England
westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/research-centre-for-optimal-health
Joined July 2017
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MRI has revealed that shape changes in the buttocks may be an indicator of type 2 diabetes #radiology #MRI #diabetes @RCOptimalHealth buff.ly/KKlSXYd
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Very honoured to be invited to give a lecture at the 60th Anniversary of The British Herbal Medicine Association at Chelsea Physic Garden @RCOptimalHealth @LifeSciWestmin
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📢Check Out Our New OA🔓 Paper Deep learning predicts onset acceleration of 38 age-associated diseases from blood and body composition biomarkers in the UK Biobank by Mica Xu Ji & Jimmy D. Bell et al. rdcu.be/evYEO #Multimorbidity #deeplearning #HealthyAging #UKBiobank
Metabolic Imaging@ImagingFat11 Jul 2025
Our new publication: Deep learning predicts onset acceleration of 38 age-associated diseases from blood and body composition biomarkers in the UK Biobank led by our brilliant Mica Xu Ji @GeroScienceAGE @uk_biobank @LifeSciWestmin @RCOptimalHealth link.springer.com/article/10…

Deep learning predicts onset acceleration of 38 age-associated diseases from blood and body...

GeroScience - A major challenge in multimorbid aging is understanding how diseases co-occur and identifying high-risk groups for accelerated disease development, but to date associations in the...

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Very pleased to be appointed to the Advisory Board of The American Botanical Council herbalgram.org/about-us/ @RCOptimalHealth @LifeSciWestmin
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Great to host Dr Wu-Chang Chuang, President of Sun Ten Pharmaceutical Company and discuss student placements and collaborations @RCOptimalHealth @LifeSciWestmin
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Huge congratulations to Dr Steve Woodley and Dr Hana Sediva from the research group for optimal health for graduating today at the Royal Festival Hall @LifeSciWestmin @RCOptimalHealth @Pukkaherbs @rch
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Very grateful to The British Herbal Medicine Association and The European Herbal and Traditional Practitioners Association for donating another £5,000 to the Phytolab for student bursaries @LifeSciWestmin @RCOptimalHealth
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Great to be able to celebrate some outstanding student achievement yesterday @RCOptimalHealth @li
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🌟 Exciting Opportunity! 🌟 We’re hiring a full-time Research Assistant for a Quantum Biology project at @LifeSciWestmin @UniWestminster. Join our dynamic team and gain novel skills in the field. Apply now! vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/…📚🔬 #Research #ScienceJobs #QuantumBiology
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Schools Science Conference at University of Westminster @RCHMnew
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And last but by no means our @RCOptimalHealth team who can show you how to use deep learning for medical image analysis and will also predict how much visceral fat you have.
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Very pleased to have a paper published with one of our MSc Biomedical Sciences students Bushra Hadj-Cherif mdpi.com/2079-6382/13/4/364 @LifeSciWestmin @RCOptimalHealth

Echinacea Reduces Antibiotics by Preventing Respiratory Infections: A Meta-Analysis (ERA-PRIMA)

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are the leading cause of antibiotic prescriptions, primarily due to the risk for secondary bacterial infections. In this study, we examined whether Echinacea could...

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.@turinginst Deeply honored to join the ranks of fellows at the Turing Institute, a beacon of innovation in data science and AI. This recognition not only celebrates our journey in bridging genomics and personalised medicine but also reinforces our commitment to open science and the mentorship of future leaders in bioinformatics. #TuringFellow #Genomics #OpenScience #Bioinformatics @LifeSciWestmin thanks for making it possible for me to reach this milestone and for all your support turing.ac.uk/news/alan-turin…
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I'm very honored to have been invited to speak to undergraduate students at the 'Being a Scientist' event organized by @lewis_dartnell and present my work and my life as a scientist! 👩‍🔬👩‍💻
Lewis Dartnell@lewis_dartnell21 Feb 2024
Ifi @mitogenia talking about her research in quantum biology and her life in science for @UniWestminster @LifeSciWestmin Being A Scientist event
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New Research: Ultra weak photon emission—a brief review frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #Physiology
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Many congratulations to @MThanaj for her new paper" Precision MRI phenotyping of muscle volume and quality at a population scale" published in @FrontiersIn today with Nic Basty, @whitcher and Jimmy Bell from @LifeSciWestmin @madcule @ElenaSorokin frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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BSc Pharmacology and Physiology students and visiting lecturers from Kazakhstan teaming up for projects in Phytolab 2024 @RCOptimalHealth @LifeSciWes
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Great to see the recent publication from @rhyssearch Prof Jimmy Bell and the @RCOptimalHealth team featured by the @UniWestminster press team. westminster.ac.uk/news/new-l…
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We were delighted to host the grand opening of our new Photonic Detector system, part of The Guy Foundation Quantum Biology Laboratory at @LifeSciWestmin last night. It was an honour to welcome Professor Geoffrey and Kate Guy and the Guy Foundation Trustees @UniWestminster
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🎉 Delighted to share our work published in @BioMedCentral Medical Imaging, using statistical parametric mapping to explore the relationship between 3D liver shape phenotypes, anthropometric, and disease factors in the UK Biobank. @RCOptimalHealth bmcmedimaging.biomedcentral.…

Liver shape analysis using statistical parametric maps at population scale

BMC Medical Imaging - Morphometric image analysis enables the quantification of differences in the shape and size of organs between individuals. Here we have applied morphometric methods to the...

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