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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

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

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

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.