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  • Science Room
    • 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
    • Join the team
  • Core Cell and Molecular Biology + Genetics Quizzes
    • Guide to identifying mode of inheritance from genetic pedigrees
    • Cell Biology and Genetics Foundation MCQ – 1
    • Core Genetics Multiple Choice Quiz Q1
    • Genetic Pedigree Multiple Choice Quiz – 1
    • 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
  • Lab Skills Quizzes
    • MCQ working in the lab
    • MCQ – Lab calculations
    • MCQ Microscopy
    • 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
  • Writing Guides
    • Downloadable Manuscript Template Doc
    • Titles
    • Preparing Scientific Posters
    • Abstracts
    • Introductions
    • Materials and Methods
    • Results Figure Preparation
    • Choosing a graph type
    • Figure legends
    • Results
    • Discussions
    • Quick tips-methods
    • Quick tips-results
  • “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
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Chase the Llama + Llama Rummy

Game Rules for Danger Llama Rummy and Chase the Llama

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Danger Llama Super Snap

Game rules for Danger Llama Super Snap

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Danger llamas

Danger Llamas! The card game you’ve always wanted…

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Not happened yet…

This has never happened. One day. Maybe. But not today.

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New Paper Published – Is exposure to ECM enough to cause epithelial transdifferentiation?

New paper from Tiago Ramos demonstrating conjunctiva and corneal plasticity when exposed to cell-derived matrix.

#laminin #ECM #cornea #conjunctiva

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New paper published – LaNts and laminin polymerisation review

New paper on laNts, laminin and netrins in basement membranes.

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They grow up so fast – PhD Viva Edition

Today was another landmark day for the lab, PhD student Jiraroch Meevassana defended his doctoral thesis at viva voce. Jiraroch…

Life in the laminin lab, PhD

They grow up so fast – BSMB 2022 edition

This week marked my return to face-to-face conferences and the realisation of just how much I’ve missed them! The British…

Life in the laminin lab

New paper published – identifying a miRNA target for glaucoma treatment

I’m very pleased to announce that our recent work has been published in the journal Genes (click the image below…

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Editing for impact #6 – Dealing with the Waffle-monster [addressing common problems]

We’ve all been there – shared a first draft with supervisors or co-authors and it has come back covered in…

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