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    • A very friendly introduction to Basement Membranes
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    • Taking control of a cancer-associated “splicing switch”
    • LaNt alpha31 in the ocular surface; a new player in corneal wound repair?
    • LaNt alpha31 distribution in human tissues
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    • Multiple Choice Quiz – Genetic Pedigrees – 5 – ABO and Rh blood group
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  • The LaNts and Laminins team
  • LaNt wars: the LaNt mouse saga…

Category: science

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

Are Scientists improvising more?

Continuing the evolution of Science writing theme, this post looks at use/utilize and its implications. #sciencewriting #utilize

paper, writing

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

They grow up so fast – BSMB 2022 edition

This week marked my return to face-to-face conferences and the realisation of just how much I’ve missed them! The British … More

Life in the laminin lab

New paper published – identifying a miRNA target for glaucoma treatment

I’m very pleased to announce that our recent work has been published in the journal Genes (click the image below … More

glaucoma, miRNA, paper

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

New Paper Published – LM511-E8 treatment of burn wounds

New paper by Jiraroch Meevassana on using a laminin fragment to improve burn wound repair

Laminin, PhD, University of Liverpool, writing

New paper published – Update on suture techniques in corneal transplantation (systematic review)

New paper comparing suture techniques for corneal transplant

New paper published – B1 repetitive sequence methylation enhances second-degree burn wound healing

Congrats to Jiraroch Meevassana on his new paper on improving burn wound repair via treatment with B1 siRNA.

paper, PhD, publication, University of Liverpool, writing

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