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Category: you can learn a lot by looking

Zooming in on laminin 332 – public seminar for ER research organisation

Recently I gave an e-seminar to the dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa research organisation – aimed a a mixed audience of patients, … More

Laminin

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

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

You can learn a lot by looking – cool pics from our recent work

As a little positive aside from all the COVID-19 related news, here is a the first of a little collection of cool science pics generated by the team over the last few months. Today’s post features a selection of immunohistochemistry images from human tissues.

histochemistry, imaging, microscopy

You can see a lot by looking – confocal microscopy imaging of laminins (etc)

Science and art meet when imaging laminins and other ecm proteins using confocal microscopy

art, Basement Membrane, ECM, imaging, Laminin

You can see a lot by looking – TIRF

Time for a new series. “You can see a lot by looking” basicaly cool images from our research + a … More

corneal, Laminin, lant, microscopy, tirf
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Recent Posts

  • Funded PhD position Available – Laminins, Superresolution microscopy and Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa
  • Zooming in on laminin 332 – public seminar for ER research organisation
  • New Paper Published – Understanding Laminin N Terminus Alpha 31’s Role in Corneal Healing
  • Outreach – Meet the Scientists at the World Museum
  • They grow up so fast – Dzhalil + Louie at ILCAMS day

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