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You can see a lot by looking – Using the best microscope in the world – Part 1

Part 1 of a blog update of our trip to do microscopy at Janelia HHMI

microscopy, science, technology

New paper published – protocol to automate skin nerve fibre density analyses

Just a quick post to promote the work of Jamie Burgess under the primary supervision of Dr Uazman Alam. In … More

Laminin polymerisation…with pipecleaners

Some lab meetings are more productive than others… here the “archetypal” laminin is represented by the blue green and red … More

They grow up so fast – ASMB Basement Membrane workshop 2024 edition

Last week Fawziah, Bilge, Natasha, Aeshah and myself attended the Basement Membrane Workshop run by the American Society of Matrix … More

Basement Membrane, conference, Laminin, They grow up so fast

New Paper Published – Will people notice differences in eyelid symmetry?

Congratulations to Frank Preston for the publication of his Masters work on the perception of eyelid asymmetry in the journal … More

asymmetry, beauty, blepharoplasty, health, lens-artists, MRes, paper

Is it time to fix the Strictly Come Dancing scoring system?

Is there a difference between judges’ scores of 7-7-7-8 compared with 6-7-7-9 or 8-7-7-7? According to the scoring system used … More

Festive escape- team bonding through frustration

In what is fast becoming a lab tradition, our team took on an escape room challenge today as a final … More

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Christmas Sale – “Life in the Lab” student guidebook –

Looking for a Christmas gift for a research student in your life (MRes, MSc, PhD or undergrad)? Well, perhaps they … More

books, christmas, Life in the laminin lab, MRes, MSc, PhD, research book

Milestone reached – 100K views this year

Just a quick post to acknowledge the lab blog reaching a milestone. Last week the view count for 2023 ticked … More

New paper published – Laminin expression signature predicts patient outcomes in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Last week PhD student Bilge Sari published her first paper in Frontiers in Cell and Molecular Biology! It’s a really … More

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