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Majlinda Lako is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a specific focus on molecular biology and ophthalmology.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including molecular biology, ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Majlinda Lako's main research topics include:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Corneal Surgery and Treatments
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to journals with a strong focus on eye-related biomedical topics. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Ocular Surface
  • Stem Cells
  • Stem Cells Translational Medicine
  • Ophthalmology and Therapy

Co-authorship is an important aspect of Majlinda Lako's research. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Lyle Armstrong
  • Joseph Collin
  • Birthe Dorgau
  • Rachel Queen
  • Francisco C. Figueiredo

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Majlinda Lako include:

  • A single cell atlas of human cornea that defines its development, limbal progenitor cells and their interactions with the immune cells, 2021, The Ocular Surface
  • Co-expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the superficial adult human conjunctival, limbal and corneal epithelium suggests an additional route of entry via the ocular surface, 2020, The Ocular Surface
  • Germline TET2 loss of function causes childhood immunodeficiency and lymphoma, 2020, Blood
  • Transplanted Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Photoreceptor Precursors Elicit Conventional and Unusual Light Responses in Mice With Advanced Retinal Degeneration, 2021, Stem Cells
  • Pathophysiology of aniridia-associated keratopathy: Developmental aspects and unanswered questions, 2021, The Ocular Surface

Best Publications

  • Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative

    Oluseun Adewumi;Behrouz Aflatoonian;Lars Ahrlund-Richter;Michal Amit

  • A gene related to Caenorhabditis elegans spermatogenesis factor fer-1 is mutated in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B

    R Bashir;S Britton;T Strachan;S Keers

  • Ethical and Safety Issues of Stem Cell-Based Therapy.

    Volarevic;BS Markovic;M Gazdic;A Volarevic

  • The role of PI3K/AKT, MAPK/ERK and NFκβ signalling in the maintenance of human embryonic stem cell pluripotency and viability highlighted by transcriptional profiling and functional analysis

    Lyle Armstrong;Owen Hughes;Sun Yung;Louise Hyslop

  • Screening ethnically diverse human embryonic stem cells identifies a chromosome 20 minimal amplicon conferring growth advantage

    Katherine Amps;Peter W. Andrews;George Anyfantis;Lyle Armstrong

  • Downregulation of NANOG induces differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to extraembryonic lineages.

    Louise Hyslop;Miodrag Stojkovic;Lyle Armstrong;Theresia Walter

  • Efficient Hematopoietic Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells on Stromal Cells Derived from Hematopoietic Niches

    Maria H. Ledran;Anna Krassowska;Lyle Armstrong;Ian Dimmick

  • Human induced pluripotent stem cell lines show stress defense mechanisms and mitochondrial regulation similar to those of human embryonic stem cells.

    Lyle Armstrong;Katarzyna Tilgner;Gabriele Saretzki;Stuart P. Atkinson

  • An Autogeneic Feeder Cell System That Efficiently Supports Growth of Undifferentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Petra Stojkovic;Majlinda Lako;Rebecca Stewart;Stefan Przyborski

  • Stress defense in murine embryonic stem cells is superior to that of various differentiated murine cells.

    Gabriele Saretzki;Lyle Armstrong;Alan Leake;Majlinda Lako

  • Phenotypic characterization of murine primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells isolated on basis of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity

    Lyle Armstrong;Miodrag Stojkovic;Ian Dimmick;Sajjad Ahmad

  • Downregulation of multiple stress defense mechanisms during differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.

    Gabriele Saretzki;Gabriele Saretzki;Theresia Walter;Stuart Atkinson;Jõao F. Passos

  • Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells from Developing and Arrested Embryos

    Xin Zhang;Petra Stojkovic;Stefan Przyborski;Michael Cooke

  • Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Corneal Epithelial‐Like Cells by In Vitro Replication of the Corneal Epithelial Stem Cell Niche

    Sajjad Ahmad;Rebecca Stewart;Sun Yung;Sai Kolli;Sai Kolli

  • Derivation of human embryonic stem cells from day-8 blastocysts recovered after three-step in vitro culture.

    Miodrag Stojkovic;Majlinda Lako;Petra Stojkovic;Rebecca Stewart

  • 13 years of cultured limbal epithelial cell therapy: a review of the outcomes

    Oliver Baylis;Francisco Figueiredo;Francisco Figueiredo;Christin Henein;Majlinda Lako

  • Derivation of a human blastocyst after heterologous nuclear transfer to donated oocytes.

    Miodrag Stojkovic;Petra Stojkovic;Christine Leary;Vanessa Jane Hall

  • Isolation of primordial germ cells from differentiating human embryonic stem cells.

    Katarzyna Tilgner;Stuart P. Atkinson;Anna Golebiewska;Miodrag Stojković

  • Hair follicle dermal cells repopulate the mouse haematopoietic system

    Majlinda Lako;Lyle Armstrong;Paul M. Cairns;Sue Harris

  • A role for NANOG in G1 to S transition in human embryonic stem cells through direct binding of CDK6 and CDC25A

    Xin Zhang;Irina Neganova;Stefan Przyborski;Chunbo Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyle Armstrong
Lyle Armstrong Newcastle University
Miodrag Stojkovic
Miodrag Stojkovic University of Kragujevac
Stefan Przyborski
Stefan Przyborski Durham University
Evelyne Sernagor
Evelyne Sernagor Newcastle University
Gabriele Saretzki
Gabriele Saretzki Newcastle University
Susan Lindsay
Susan Lindsay Newcastle University
Tom Strachan
Tom Strachan Newcastle University
Alan O Trounson
Alan O Trounson Monash University
David J. Elliott
David J. Elliott Newcastle University
Natalio Krasnogor
Natalio Krasnogor Newcastle University

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