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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.”

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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

New paper out – Laminin polymerization and inherited disease: lessons from genetics

New mini-review about laminin mutations and their effect on basement membrane assembly and tissue function.

Basement Membrane, Laminin

2 New papers out – Comprehensive reviews of conjunctival ECM and replacement strategies

“The conjunctival extracellular matrix, related disorders and development of substrates for conjunctival restoration” and “Biological tissues and components, and synthetic substrates for conjunctival cell transplantation” published in The Ocular Surface – links to download.

Basement Membrane, conjunctiva, disease, ECM, publication

You can see a lot by looking – fluorescence microscopy to brighten your day

Back in the lab post COVID and Dr Lee Troughton has been on the confocal microscope grabbing some cool pics … More

confocal, hemidesmosome, integrin, Laminin, microscopy

New paper out – the road to conjunctival happiness

Overview of our paper:

Mass Spectrometry Reveals α-2-HS-Glycoprotein as a Key Early Extracellular Matrix Protein for Conjunctival Cells

conjunctiva, ECM, IOVS, laminins, manuscript, Mass spectrometry, paper

New paper out – CRISPRing laminins

Attempts at genome editing laminin beta 1 with Dendra2 photoconvertible tag

Department of Eye and Vision Science, Laminin, paper
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