Catherine Wright
@CWright_lab
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Lecturer and PI at GCU working on fibrosis and gap junctions in the skin and their involvement in wound healing
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined January 2016
It's World Diabetes Day https://t.co/IojqTqaJDw this year focussing on well-being. Proud to be a researchers and educator in diabetes with improving the well-being of people with diabetes at the heart of what I do.
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Let's talk about well-being for a better diabetes life. Diabetes and well-being is the theme for World Diabetes Day 2024-26.
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'Had she had that finger prick test she would have been alive today' John Story told #BBCBreakfast about his campaign for better awareness of the symptoms of diabetes after his two-year-old daughter Lyla died with undiagnosed type 1 diabetes, 24 hours after her mum had taken her
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Join us at GCU for full and part-time MSc Advanced Practice programmes with specialisms in MSK health, diabetes, travel medicine and expedition and wilderness medicine
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Proud to be part of the delivery of AHP post-graduate education at GCU via our MSc Advanced Practice pathways https://t.co/SJokgbd7sL
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As the country’s largest provider of Nursing and Allied Health Professions (AHP) education, Glasgow Caledonian’s students are already making an impact on the NHS — and their role will only grow.
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In a medical first, researchers report that they have implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type 1 diabetes https://t.co/JixmmcdRyN
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Nature - Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.
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Say hello to Jonathan he was born in 1832 & is 192 years old
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The world's oldest baby has been born from an embryo frozen in 1994 Thaddeus Daniel Pierce is over 30 years old despite being born July 26, 2025
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Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant mitochondria https://t.co/wwgtedKI7N
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Nature - Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant mitochondria.
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Hugely honoured that my Robin family in a farm wall has been selected to go in the Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 book which means it’s made the top 1% of entrants, a real honour. Winners announced in September. @Natures_Voice @ShropsWildlife @OMSYSTEMcameras @WildlifeMag
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Tardigrades are eight-legged, microscopic water-dwellers have survived the vacuum of space, extreme dehydration, and temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to above boiling point. https://t.co/8wXPX8Ghow
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How innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. https://t.co/ozYCyQ6udP
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One protein, two opposing roles: This ‘compelling’ study shows how the same signalling molecule can drive either protrusion or retraction in migrating cells depending on its concentration and activation dynamics. https://t.co/iz3UrpXXQf
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Lowest Supermoon of our lifetimes, captured three nights ago, rising behind this magnificent tree in the countryside, UK.
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It's Diabetes Week. Proud to be involved in diabetes research and education with many diabetes projects running at GCU and our work investigating diabetic wound repair https://t.co/jT0MSJIQy5
@GCUReach @GCU_BIO @GCUSHLS
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Diabetes Week is a week to make some noise, raise awareness and shout about the things that matter to people with diabetes, shining a light on what it’s like to live with day in, day out. And this...
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🩸 Just 2% of people donate blood. This #NationalBloodWeek, the NHS is calling for 1 million donors to help meet growing demand. Biomedical scientists rely on your donations to save lives every day. Find out how to donate: https://t.co/96Ew44xj12
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The cycle of life, every instant, in your mitochondria. The major electron carrier in mitochondria is NAD+. When it collects an electron from the food you eat, NAD+ is converted into NADH. NADH then feeds the electron to the electron transport chain so the electron can flow to
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