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    • A very friendly introduction to Basement Membranes
    • Laminins – a friendly intro!
    • LaNts – a friendly intro
      • Taking control of a cancer-associated “splicing switch”
      • LaNt alpha31 in the ocular surface; a new player in corneal wound repair?
      • LaNt alpha31 distribution in human tissues
      • LaNt wars: the LaNt mouse saga…
      • LaNt a31 – a breast cancer marker and potential drug target
    • Developing A New Therapy for Aniridia
    • Are you really as good at applying sunscreen as you think?
      • Can you replace your sunscreen with SPF containing moisturisers?
      • UV photography; how to guide
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  • Core Cell and Molecular Biology + Genetics Quizzes
    • Guide to identifying mode of inheritance from genetic pedigrees
    • Cell Biology and Genetics Foundation MCQ – 1
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    • Genetic Pedigree Multiple Choice Quiz – 2
    • Genetic Pedigree Multiple Choice Quiz – 3
    • Genetic Pedigree – Multiple Choice Quiz – 4
    • Multiple Choice Quiz – Genetic Pedigrees – 5 – ABO and Rh blood group
    • Genetics Pedigrees MCQ 6 – Real Example – LOCS
    • Mitosis and Meiosis MCQ (genetics/cell biology)
    • Transcription, translation, protein and gene regulation MCQ
    • Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive Values MCQ
    • Mean, Median, Mode MCQ
    • Hallmarks of Cancer MCQ
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    • MCQ protein work
    • MCQ cell culture
    • MCQ RNA/DNA techniques
    • MCQ Flow cytometry and FACS
    • Science grammar quiz!
    • Lab Skill Quiz – Data interpretation I
    • Lab skills quiz – data interpretation MCQ #2
    • Lab skills MCQ – Data interpretation #3
    • Worked examples videos: basic lab calculations
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    • Choosing a graph type
    • Figure legends
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  • “Life in the Lab” book
  • Experimental Design Guide
    • Statistics test – flow chart
    • Experimental Design – Part 1 – Hypotheses
    • Experimental Design – Part 2 – Measurements
    • Experimental Design – Part 3 – Controls
    • Experimental Design – part 4 – Assigning groups
    • Experimental Design – Part 5 – Sample size determination
  • MRes BLS links
    • MRes: Introduction to Lab Skills Practical Class
    • MRes – RT-PCR (video)
    • MRes – Western Blotting
    • Worked examples videos: basic lab calculations

You can learn a lot by looking – Using the best microscope in the world – Part 2

We’re now over a week into our imaging sessions at HHMI Janelia using the iPALM microscope and it is time…

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You can see a lot by looking – Using the best microscope in the world – Part 1

Part 1 of a blog update of our trip to do microscopy at Janelia HHMI

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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…

Laminin polymerisation…with pipecleaners

Some lab meetings are more productive than others… here the “archetypal” laminin is represented by the blue green and red…

They grow up so fast – ASMB Basement Membrane workshop 2024 edition

Last week Fawziah, Bilge, Natasha, Aeshah and myself attended the Basement Membrane Workshop run by the American Society of Matrix…

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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…

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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…

Festive escape- team bonding through frustration

In what is fast becoming a lab tradition, our team took on an escape room challenge today as a final…

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Christmas Sale – “Life in the Lab” student guidebook –

Looking for a Christmas gift for a research student in your life (MRes, MSc, PhD or undergrad)? Well, perhaps they…

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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…

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