Rare immune cells drive gut repair, but can tip toward cancer or fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease
LCN researchers at King’s College London have discovered an unexpected tissue reparative role for a rare immune cell type in the gut that could tip toward fibrosis or cancer if dysregulated. The breakthrough will have important implications for treating patients who...
LCN announces two collaborative PhD studentships
The LCN has announced two studentships to support new collaborations across the network. The announcement follows an internal call that was circulated to the LCN PI network at King’s College London, Imperial College London and UCL. The projects selected for the...
Nobel laureate tells how to beat his own award-winning imaging technique
In the 1990s an optical imaging technique emerged that overturned the “diffraction limit”, which for over a century had defined the maximum achievable resolution an optical microscope could achieve at around half the wavelength of the illuminating light. At King’s...