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

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

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

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

They grow up so fast- Pupdate III

Pupdate part 3

Guest Post – Welcome Week: First impressions

A post Dr Anna Stickland and I wrote for the Faculty of Academic and Clinical Educators publication about the activities we put on to welcome students to the School of Medicine.

Are Scientists improvising more?

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

Is Science becoming more novel?

Scientific papers describe new research findings. Yet, it seems that a greater proportion of papers feel it is necessary to point that out. Why is that?