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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.

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New Paper Published – Deidentification / informed consent

Congratulations to Frank Preston on publishing his paper on informed consent in publishing and deidentification methods, out today in the … More

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Traditions

Happy Holidays from the LaNts and laminin team (l-r Jiraroch, Kevin, JohnJohn, Conro, Fawziah, Liam, Bilge and Natasha). Previous Christmas … More

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New Paper Out – Risk factors for corneal epithelial wound healing: Can sex play a role?

Nice little collaborative paper out in the European Journal of Ophthalmology, authored by Giulia Coco – Risk factors for corneal … More

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Editing for impact #4 – Get Rhythm – Paragraph length and flow.

Good writing is effective writing. In science writing, efficacy comes from your readers being able to absorb the information you … More

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A case for the passive voice -editing for impact #3

Passive voice: good or bad? It depends on context. This post examines when you should or shouldn’t use it.

They grow up so fast – Introducing Dr JohnJohn!

Thursday was another landmark day for the lab; John “John” Knox defended his doctoral thesis at his viva voce. We … More

Jobs! Short-term PDRA in small nucleotide-based therapies for ocular disease

We have at least one, likely two, postdoctoral researcher posts available to work on projects relating to use of short … More

50 mile charity bike ride complete

Today, myself, a team from St Paul’s Eye Unit of the Dept of Eye and Vision Science + several thousand … More

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