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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/product/978-1-…
Dr Karen Wright @iamkarenwright from @BLSLancasterUni writes in the Conversation about how "IBS and SIBO have overlapping symptoms – here's what you need to know about these different digestive conditions" theconversation.com/ibs-and-sibo-h…
It’s a pleasure to see our researchers, Professor Hedley Emsley and Dr @SanaHannan_ , co-lead on the CLOVER (Collaboration for Late‑Onset and Vascular Epilepsy Research) initiative, in collaboration with academics at @Uni_Lancashire and @ucl.
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
🚨 That’s a wrap on the UK Kinetoplastid Consortium Meeting 2025! 🚨 Huge thanks to all speakers, attendees, and organisers who made it a fantastic two days in Lancaster. See you in York in 2027! #Kinetoplastids #KUKC2025 #TrypTalks
The Wall Street Journal @WSJ quotes Dr Steven Hall from @BLSLancasterUni on a potential universal anti snakebite venom being tested in the US wsj.com/science/biolog…
Lancaster is one of the N8 northern research universities delivering an £18.8b boost to the UK economy! 🎉 A new report by @LondonEconomics shows N8 universities generated £18.8b and supported almost 100,000 jobs in 1 academic year 💪 Find out more 👇 lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster…
A new report published today by @LondonEconomics shows the N8 Research Partnership generated a massive £18.8 billion economic impact in 2021–22. n8research.org.uk/new-report-rev…
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/sounds/play/m0…
Another paper hot off the press! Dual proteomics strategies to characterise and compare the venom composition of nine African #snake #venoms . A wonderful collaboration with @LoicQuinton as part of the @ADDovenom project. @nickcasewell @BLSLancasterUni 🐍 mdpi.com/2072-6651/17/5…
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 windermeresciencefestival.org
📣 Don’t miss our next RNA Club session on May 22nd 17h at @CamBiochem with Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou (@LancasterUni @BLSLancasterUni )! She’ll reveal how RNA editing shapes immune regulation in health and disease! Don't miss a session full of science and pizza 🤓🍕
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/news/public-le…
Dr Steven Hall from @BLSLancasterUni was interviewed by CNN about snake venom after a man injected himself with venom to create antibodies against certain snake venom toxins amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/02…
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/doi/10.1126/sc…
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 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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
Professor Roger Pickup @PickupRoger is an invited guest at today's opening of the new Sunway University Medical School. @SunwayU @SMLS_SunU
This morning Prof Roger Pickup @PickupRoger gave a presentation on #Crohn’s Disease and related issues for Malaysia to Sunway University @SunwayU @SMLS_SunU
It was a pleasure to host Dr Anna Zampetaki from @KingsCollegeLon at our #Biomedical and Life Sciences seminar series. Anna gave a fascinating talk on "Human blood vessel #organoids as a model of the #microvasculature"
