Happy to announce the publication of some of my PhD research in JCI Insight! insight.jci.org/articles/vie… At a time of growing anxiety surrounding artificial intelligence, I view this sort of experimental work as something deeply human. We meandered, we ran into dead ends – again and again – and dealt with frustration and disappointment. But we persevered, and the work is a testament to how science can yield interesting and unexpected results to those patient enough to unravel its mysteries. I hope you enjoy reading the paper and building on our findings. I also hope to be fortunate enough to contribute more to the scientific literature in the years to come. Many thanks to the people who contributed to this story and stuck with me and with the science all the way to this culmination.