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Welcome to @lancasteruni’s Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences | Content by our Students and Staff | Research news |
Lancaster, England
Joined December 2018
RT @LancasterPress: Professor Sarah Allinson from @BLSLancasterUni is quoted by the Independent on skin cancer and the HPV virus. https://t.….
independent.co.uk
The type of human papillomavirus (HPV), which infects the skin, had not previously been linked to cancer
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RT @LancasterPress: Professor Sarah Allinson from @BLSLancasterUni writes in the Conversation about “Skin cancer: is HPV also a potential c….
theconversation.com
A recent case study has raised questions about whether HPV-driven skin cancer could be a wider, previously unrecognised problem.
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BLS Lecturer Dr. Derek Gatherer has written a popular science book 'BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past: Escaping Evolution' which is available now from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
cambridgescholars.com
BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past: Escaping Evolution - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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RT @HICLancaster: It’s a pleasure to see our researchers, Professor Hedley Emsley and Dr @SanaHannan_ , co-lead on the CLOVER (Collaboratio….
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Asmaa Nasr and Vidya Manju from Prof Munir’s Lab (@VirologistMunir) recently participated in the International Pandemic Sciences Conferece 2025 at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford. They presented their PhD research on viruses with pandemic potential. #PandemicSciences25
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Congratulations also to other BLS technicians who were nominated: Adam Johnson (Category - Team player) Chloe Baldwin and Lydia Ireland (Category - Newcomer) David Andrews (Category - Contribution to research or research support).
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Many congratulations to Dr Jessica Hammond for winning an award at the Lancaster University Technician Commitment Awards 2025! Jess won in the category “Contribution to teaching or teaching support".
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RT @FedMRojas: 🚨 That’s a wrap on the UK Kinetoplastid Consortium Meeting 2025! 🚨.Huge thanks to all speakers, attendees, and organisers wh….
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RT @LancasterPress: The Wall Street Journal @WSJ quotes Dr Steven Hall from @BLSLancasterUni on a potential universal anti snakebite venom….
wsj.com
A new cocktail described in the journal Cell fully protected mice against a lethal dose of venom from 13 deadly snake species and offered some protection for venom from six other species.
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RT @LancasterUni: Lancaster is one of the N8 northern research universities delivering an £18.8b boost to the UK economy! 🎉. A new report b….
lancaster.ac.uk
A new report has found that the eight Northern research-intensive universities that comprise the N8 Research Partnership generated £18.8 billion in economic impact for the UK in the 2021-22 academic...
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Professor Roger Pickup @PickupRoger appeared on BBC Inside Science on @BBCRadio4 talking about the current bathing season and water quality. You can listen here, ~9min20
bbc.co.uk
40 years since we discovered a hole in the Ozone layer, we ask what threatens it today
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RT @MenziesLab: Another paper hot off the press! Dual proteomics strategies to characterise and compare the venom composition of nine Afric….
mdpi.com
Snakebite envenoming constitutes a significant global health issue, particularly in Africa, where venomous species such as Echis vipers and Dendroaspis mambas pose substantial risks to human health....
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Our team had a great time at Windermere Science Festival! Thank you to everyone who visited our activity 🍓🧬
We're very excited to be bringing our Strawberry #DNA #Lab to #Windermere #Science Festival tomorrow, Saturday 10th May! We will be joined by lots of other exciting activites from the wider university. For more information, please visit
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RT @CambridgeRNA: 📣 Don’t miss our next RNA Club session on May 22nd 17h at @CamBiochem with Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou (@LancasterUni @BLSLan….
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Today starting at 6.30pm, Dr Steven Hall @srhall106 from @BLSLancasterUni is giving a public lecture that sheds light on a little-known, yet deadly, global health emergency: snakebite envenoming. Further details here
lancaster.ac.uk
Lancaster University is hosting a thought-provoking lecture that sheds light on a little-known, yet deadly, global health emergency: snakebite envenoming.
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RT @LancasterPress: Dr Steven Hall from @BLSLancasterUni was interviewed by CNN about snake venom after a man injected himself with venom t….
amp.cnn.com
A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes. Researchers hope for human clinical trials one day.
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New paper alert! 'Interphase cell morphology defines the mode, symmetry, and outcome of mitosis' co-authored by Dr. Richard Mort @lab_mort was recently published in Science. Available at:
science.org
During tissue formation, dynamic cell shape changes drive morphogenesis while asymmetric divisions create cellular diversity. We found that the shifts in cell morphology that shape tissues could...
Over the moon to finally be able to share our work in @ScienceMagazine 🙌🏻🔬 So proud to be co-first author and couldn’t have done it without my amazing colleagues and our fantastic collaborators
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We're very excited to be bringing our Strawberry #DNA #Lab to #Windermere #Science Festival tomorrow, Saturday 10th May! We will be joined by lots of other exciting activites from the wider university. For more information, please visit
windermeresciencefestival.org
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Professor Roger Pickup @PickupRoger is an invited guest at today's opening of the new Sunway University Medical School. @SunwayU @SMLS_SunU
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This morning Prof Roger Pickup @PickupRoger gave a presentation on #Crohn’s Disease and related issues for Malaysia to Sunway University @SunwayU @SMLS_SunU.
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