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    • A very friendly introduction to Basement Membranes
    • Laminins – a friendly intro!
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    • Taking control of a cancer-associated “splicing switch”
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    • LaNt alpha31 distribution in human tissues
    • Are you really as good at applying sunscreen as you think?
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    • UV photography; how to guide
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    • Genetic Pedigree – Multiple Choice Quiz – 4
    • Multiple Choice Quiz – Genetic Pedigrees – 5 – ABO and Rh blood group
    • Genetics Pedigrees MCQ 6 – Real Example – LOCS
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    • MCQ Microscopy
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    • Science grammar quiz!
    • Lab Skill Quiz – Data interpretation I
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    • Lab skills MCQ – Data interpretation #3
    • Worked examples videos: basic lab calculations
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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
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  • The LaNts and Laminins team
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Tag: Writing tips

cartoon discussing bloated paragraphs

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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Matt Hancock cartoon making a speech where he overuses significant

Does “significant” mean small? [Editing for impact #2]

Should significant only be used for small differences.

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cartoon about adding emphasis through sentence structure

Editing for impact #1 – Using sentence structure to increase emphasis

This post unpacks how sentence structure influences the emphasis on different parts of your message (and how you can use … More

Writing tips

A Significant Message

Significance: a danger word.
When should you say a “significant difference”? Probably not as often as you were taught in school.

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