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Conor Sugden

@conorjsugden.bsky.social
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Postdoc Research Associate in the Lennon Lab, Manchester Cell-Matrix Centre, University of Manchester Lover of extracellular matrix, basement membranes, microscopy 🔬

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Martin Humphries @martinhumphries.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
...or just get rid of journals www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind
Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our latest: Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation How does a single cell give rise to a tissue with the right cell types in the right proportions? We deconstruct and rebuild a self-organising tissue from first principles A thread🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation
The reliable generation of diverse cell types in precise proportions is essential for the formation of functional tissues during embryonic development. Three-dimensional organoid models derived from p...
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
1 week to start🔥 New @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series focused on #CellMigration, register & join us▶️, it will be fun! pls spread the word, in the next one, ECRs could apply to show their work ;) ▶️ to register: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/29/n... @dgz.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Postdoc job alert at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris! Interested in fundamental membrane trafficking? We seek a postdoc to study collagen secretion as a model for core principles of how cells and their environment build each other. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Poste de chercheur postdoctoral en trafic membranaire fondamental et sécrétion du collagène (H/F)
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ll soon share a call for a postdoc at Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on fundamental mechanisms of membrane traffic and protein/collagen secretion in health and disease. Please get in touch if interested.
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Ivaska Lab @ivaskalab.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Postdocs wanted - Please spread the word! We are looking for one bioinformatician and 1-2 cell biologists with different expertise! See the job ad below for more information and links to the job descriptions!
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Conor Sugden @conorjsugden.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New publication from the Hamill Lab! Laminin N-terminus α31 regulates corneal epithelial cell adhesion and migration through modifying the organization and proteolytic processing of laminin 332 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... If you are interested in basement membranes, this is for you...
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Laminin N-terminus α31 regulates corneal epithelial cell adhesion and migration through modifying the organization and proteolytic processing of laminin 332
Laminin N-terminus α31 (LaNt α31) is a netrin-like protein generated by alternative splicing of the laminin α3 gene. While previously shown to regulate vascular permeability in vivo, its role in epith...
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Conor Sugden @conorjsugden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
i had a great time presenting my work at the American Society for Matrix Biology 2025 Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MA! As always, great to see fantastic developments within the community and make new connections!
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The annual course “Basics in Fluorescence Microscopy”, will be organised by the van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy from January 27th - 30th, 2026. Location: University of Amsterdam (NL) For more info, preliminary program and the application form check www.microscopycourse.nl?page_id=78
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Basics in fluorescence microscopy – Microscopycourse
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 11/11/2025
Local #mRNAtranslation in polarized cells is well studied in neurons but what about #microglia? This study shows that #inflammation enhances microglial #RNA localization & translation via RNA-binding protein IMP1/ZBP1, regulating morphology, motility & phagocytosis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/486ZLMS
LPS increases Actb mRNA in PeMPs in vivo and enhances its localized translation in vitro. New synthesis of β-actin in microglial peripheral structures was assessed with a 2-min puromycin pulse in PBS- and LPS-treated cells followed by proximity ligation assay (PLA) with antibodies against puromycin and β-actin. As a negative control, cells were preincubated with the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin. Micrographs show the PLA signal in microglia labeled with phalloidin. Arrowheads indicate PeMPs depicted in insets (4 rightmost panels). Scale bars 20 µm (insets 10 µm)
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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The ECM is no longer in the back seat when it comes to development. Check out our special issue "Dynamics of the extracellular matrix in development, cell physiology and disease" with 8 selected articles to learn more: A 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Cells & Development | Dynamics of the extracellular matrix in development, cell physiology and disease. | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Extracellular matrices (ECMs) are everywhere in our body– from the sheet-like basement membranes that line epithelia and other tissues - to the loose stromal arrays of mesenchyme - to the rigid struct...
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IMAG'IC @imag-ic.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The IMAG'IC team is back to offer you the "Introduction to the Use of #ImageJ" training course. October 24, 2025: Session in French October 29, 2025: Session in English institutcochin.fr/formations/f... @institutcochin.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social @inserm.fr
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Yale Cell Biology @yalecellbiology.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We're hiring new faculty! Looking for talented scientists that are interested in pushing the boundaries of Cell Biology. Please spread the word!
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Al Jord Lab @aljordlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🔴✨ Exciting opportunity : we're hiring a PhD student! ✨🔴 👉 Don't hesitate to apply or spread the word! ⏰ Deadline 30th November 2025 ℹ️ More information and application : www.crg.eu/en/content/t... @crg.eu @prbb.org
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Centre for Genomic Regulation Website
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 09/09/2025
[Commentary] Distal enhancers loop to proximal enhancers, not to promoters by the one and only Kevin Struhl in #genesky @natrevmcb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Distal enhancers loop to proximal enhancers, not to promoters - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
This Comment posits that enhancers stimulate the transcription machinery only through short-range interactions and, therefore, that enhancer activity at a distance is mediated by chromatin loops betwe...
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Super-Resolution Imaging Reveals Stretch-Induced Architectural Rearrangement of Desmoplakin in Desmosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our protocol for gene editing is online and all plasmids are on @addgene.bsky.social! CRISPR away everybody and get in touch if you need anything 🤩
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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Lentiviral vectors have stably integrated themselves as a favorite in the viral vector toolbox. In our recently refreshed lentiviral guide, we cover the basics of lentiviral vectors including generations, production, common uses, and safety. Check it out! twp.ai/4ipGPa
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Addgene: Lentiviral Vector Guide
Read our lentiviral guide to learn about lentiviral components, generations, lentiviral production, and common uses.
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Rachel Lennon @rachellennon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Wonderful to be at the 15th International Podocyte Conference in Hamburg! Exciting science & fabulous networking ❤️ Huge 🙏 to @tobias-b-huber.bsky.social & @isgd.bsky.social teams 🙏
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🖱️ Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button, thanks to Cellpose3: www.janelia.org/news/newest-...
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Newest version of Cellpose can spot cell boundaries even in cloudy conditions
Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button. A new version of Cellpose – the popular tool that maps the boundaries of diverse cells in microscopy
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Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Amazing postdoctoral position at Pernaute’s lab Fully funded for 3 year by European Research Council (#ERC) grant EARLYFATE #ERCCoG At the #CABD a research center recognized with a national excellence award ‘María de Maeztu’ located in Seville, Spain Share or apply #JobOffer #Postdoctoraljob
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
For clear thinking, cultivate passionate indifference. Buddhists call it non-attachment. We all have hopes, desires and ambitions. Non-attachment means acknowledging them, accepting them, and then not inserting them into a process that has nothing to do with you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Here we share our opinions on "Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Joanna, Hanna and I worked quite a bit on this piece and I hope you find it useful Many thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for publishing it
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Practical considerations for data exploration in quantitative cell biology
Summary: We present practical guidelines for data exploration in quantitative cell biology that are designed to help yield reliable conclusions and promote a collaborative, transparent approach to dat...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Josiah Passmore @jpassmore.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Join the biocontrol seminar tomorrow to hear about the fun things we are doing with controlling cells!
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This will never stop blowing my mind.
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Looking for #MaterialStiffness of #BasementMembrane across tissues? Excellent literature resource here😆👇 The basement membrane as a structured surface – role in vascular health and disease @claireleclech.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social 2020 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A terrific perspective from Vivek Malhotra @naturecomms.bsky.social on the fundamental importance of pathways and mechanisms by which cells secrete proteins, ensuring their delivery in the correct quantities and at the appropriate times. Interesting section on unanswered questions. rdcu.be/ecb2B
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The pathways of secretory cargo export at the endoplasmic reticulum
Nature Communications - The author presents an overview of the complex challenge of protein export from the Endoplasmic Reticulum, and discusses how cells may deploy novel pathways utilizing...
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Rhobo6👹 An omnipotent cell-impermeable dye labels diol/glycan of #ExtraCellularMatrix ✅collagen/fibron, BM, proteoglycan Retro-orbital injection to label the ECM throughout WHOLE mouse body▶️intravital 2P Also work on🪰🪱🐟🌱 @naturemethods.bsky.social 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Alport UK @alportuk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🔬✨ SCIENCE THAT GLOWS💡🔴 Conor Sugden, Shota Kaseda, Sherwood Lab & UoM’s Genome Editing Unit made basement membranes glow red with mScarlet. This helps scientists see damage & repair in real-time—leading to better treatments! 🏥💙 @conorjsugden.bsky.social @rachellennon.bsky.social
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🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🔔🧪Let’s support our colleagues: 👉“The upcoming weeks will challenge the US #scientific #community, emphasizing the need for #unity and #support among its members. Upholding principles of #independence, #peer evaluation, and #inclusion is vital for future #success.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Exiting the microscopy room
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#CellMigration happens all the time in our bodies. This may (or not) rely on adhesion molecules #Cancer cells switch strategies during metastasis to invade other tissues Naomi Wee (naomiwee.com) did this neat movie to explain it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9aD... #SciSky 🧪🔬 @cellcommlab.bsky.social
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Joanna Pylvänäinen @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I put together a small guide on how to get started with Fiji. Please distribute to anyone who might benefit form this! zenodo.org/records/1477... #imageanalysis #fiji #imagej #training
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Image handling using Fiji - training materials
Description:This training package provides a guide to image processing and analysis using ImageJ/Fiji, an open-source software widely used in biological and medical imaging. The manual includes step-b...
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David W. Sanders! @davidwsanders.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Light-activated binding of a protein to tubular lysosomes:
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Chloé Yeung @ccstorytime.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 Brand new website for Matrix Biology Italy #MBIta (formerly know as Italian Society for the Study of Connective Tissue) www.matrixbiology.it @valerioizzi.bsky.social @themeshwork.bsky.social @nabalabuic.bsky.social @tomvanagtmael.bsky.social @amrohussien.bsky.social @tcox.bsky.social
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Failure is always in the background of any creative project; when the experiments are not working or the results don’t seem to make sense. But for discovery, you can’t deny yourself the permission to fail, and we should better teach failure in all its glory.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Accessible and accurate cytometry analysis using fluorescence microscopes by Bo Huang and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Trypsin treatment improves Cellpose segmentation of brightfield images for adherent cells
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Atacama Clear Optical clearing 🐭👤tissues Better quenching of autofluorescence vs CUBIC, EZ Clear, iDISCO+, ScaleS, Clarity Lower Antibody concentrations needed Preservation of Fluorescent reporter proteins & infused tracers #SciArt bioRxiv 2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
#SmoothMuscleCell Mechanobiology Effects of Pulsatile (not Cyclic) Stretch (9% physiological strain, heart pressure waveform, 1 Hz, FlexCell) on 10 select genes human aortic SMC for 4/24/72 h COL1A1 MMP2 LAMA5 FBN1 TGFBR1/2 MLCK PRKG1 TAGLN TNFRSF11B #SciRep 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ashley Kalinski @kalinskilab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Gave our first state of the lab address this week. I broke down the cost of science, from people to stuff. Dove into spending compared to budgets. Spent time on grant submissions and manuscript/project expectations for the year. I want to be as transparent as possible & this was a great start! 🧪🧠👩‍🔬
Opening slide for state of the lab PowerPoint presentation.
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Is endothelium a type of epithelium? I am @icfortunato.bsky.social & I would like to discuss this with a short🧵 focused on cell-cell junctions, specifically adherens junctions.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Genetically Encoded Fluorogenic DNA Aptamers for Imaging Metabolite in Living Cells pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Genetically Encoded Fluorogenic DNA Aptamers for Imaging Metabolite in Living Cells
Genetically encoded fluorescent protein and fluorogenic RNA sensors are indispensable tools for imaging biomolecules in cells. To expand the toolboxes and improve the generalizability and stability of...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Top 4 things to know about doing science: 1. You need to have someone you can talk to 2. One-on-one discussions are the best 3. Think about discussions as improvisations and use the ‘yes, and’ rule 4. Create a safe space so both of you feel open to saying seemingly silly things
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's still true that no philosopher has had a bigger impact on science than Popper, who argued that we should make risky and bold predictions to test our ideas. Do the killer experiment, he would say; the one that has a chance to kill your hypothesis.
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Doug Dyer @douglaspdyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Please spread the word and sign up for our exciting spring meeting in Nottingham with amazing speakers on the topic of ECM, immunity and infection. An exciting and developing field! paacr4.wixsite.com/bsmb-spring2...
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Home | BSMBSpring2025
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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
!!!!!! Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once observed in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces c...
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Jon Humphries @jdhl18.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#PLOSONE: THUMPD3 regulates alternative splicing of ECM transcripts in human lung cancer cells and promotes p ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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THUMPD3 regulates alternative splicing of ECM transcripts in human lung cancer cells and promotes proliferation and migration
RNA-modifying enzymes have recently garnered considerable attention due to their relevance in cancer biology, identifying them as potential targets for novel therapeutic intervention. THUMPD3 was rece...
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Johanna Englund @johannaienglund.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Finishing the year with 1st preprint from the lab! Together with @katajistolab.bsky.social and @valerioizzi.bsky.social we investigated the role of basement membrane protein Lama5 and found it is critical for luminal breast cancer initiation and growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tumour-derived LAMA5 is critical for tumour initiation and controls progression and phenotype in luminal breast cancer
Basement membrane (BM) supports and regulates the structural integrity, function and differentiation of epithelial tissues and protects against stromal invasion of breast cancer cells. Here we show th...
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