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      • Taking control of a cancer-associated “splicing switch”
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      • LaNt alpha31 distribution in human tissues
      • LaNt wars: the LaNt mouse saga…
      • LaNt a31 – a breast cancer marker and potential drug target
    • Developing A New Therapy for Aniridia
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      • Can you replace your sunscreen with SPF containing moisturisers?
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Funded PhD position Available – Laminins, Superresolution microscopy and Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa

From Gene Editing to Therapeutics: Building Human Corneal Models of Inherited Fragility Disorder Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa

Basement Membrane, biology, cancer, genetics, health, PhD, science

New Paper Published – Understanding Laminin N Terminus Alpha 31’s Role in Corneal Healing

New paper published on LaNts impact on laminins.

Basement Membrane, biology, cornea, food, health, imaging, Laminin, microscopy, migration, paper, science, wound healing

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

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