{"id":704,"date":"2020-03-14T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/?p=704"},"modified":"2020-03-15T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:57:03","slug":"skin-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/skin-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, we achieved a major milestone in our research capabilties. We established a skin bank to ensure a steady supply of skin samples for our research. At present, the skin bank contains porcine and murine skin samples. We may expand this to include other skin samples in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team was understandably thrilled when we received our first skin donations to the skin bank. Hassan, Rach and Trevor all had a go at processing the skin samples for storage. These skin samples will be put to good use in the coming weeks and months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rach, the self-proclaimed pig barber at work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rachael_Dixon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rachael_Dixon<\/a> first attempt at prepping skin for our newly established skin bank went fantastically well. Very impressed! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCL_Pharmacy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCL_Pharmacy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WingManLau1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WingManLau1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYGKNiOO7x\">pic.twitter.com\/BYGKNiOO7x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Keng Wooi Ng (@ngkengwooi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ngkengwooi\/status\/1238161443037593601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we achieved a major milestone in our research capabilties. We established a skin bank to ensure a steady supply of skin samples for our research. At present, the skin bank contains porcine and murine skin samples. We may expand this to include other skin samples in the future. The team was understandably thrilled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/skin-bank\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skin bank&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}