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Category: Big laminin paper

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

New Paper Published – Is exposure to ECM enough to cause epithelial transdifferentiation?

New paper from Tiago Ramos demonstrating conjunctiva and corneal plasticity when exposed to cell-derived matrix.

#laminin #ECM #cornea #conjunctiva

conjunctiva, cornea, Laminin, paper

New paper published – LaNts and laminin polymerisation review

New paper on laNts, laminin and netrins in basement membranes.

ECM, Laminin, lant, manuscript, paper, publication, research, science, splicing

New paper published – First ever LaNt in vivo studies!

New paper – studying laminin N terminus alpha31 in a transgenic mouse model. The first in vivo experiments into this protein. The results are striking!

Basement Membrane, Laminin

New Paper Published – LaNt a31 in breast cancer

Big new paper out now! “Laminin N-terminus α31 is upregulated in invasive ductal breast cancer and changes the mode of tumour invasion.”

(lay description in body)

Laminin, University of Liverpool, writing

Lessons in Grant Writing

Toon day.
Lessons in Grant Writing.
Featuring Prof Pillowtree…

Follow the link for the rest.
#grant #phdlife #miRNA

glaucoma, grant, miR, miRNA, Pillowtree

Laminin Research Highlights – Developments in Laminin Therapies

This is the first of a new series of posts where we highlight recent developments in laminin research. In the first … More

Basement Membrane, Laminin, Merosin-deficient congenital muscular atrophy, Pierson syndrome, therapy
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