Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Decoding Salt Tolerance: How Sea Rice HD961 Uses Translation Control to Thrive in Saline Fields
Sea rice HD961 thrives where ordinary rice fails. To uncover its secret to salt tolerance, we combined genome sequencing and ribosome profiling, revealing how HD961 fine tunes protein synthesis to turn stress into survival.
Measuring What Truly Matters: A New Scale Blends Psychology and Spirituality to Redefine Effectiveness in Churches
Churches shape lives and communities, yet no reliable tool measures how effectively they do so. My study developed a psychologically informed scale to assess faith-based organisational effectiveness, bridging spiritual purpose with organisational performance.
Learning how to exploit bacterial competition to target harmful strains
Bacteria living in microbial communities naturally compete for resources. We show that by understanding how bacteria compete, we can repurpose natural competition and target harmful species from within a community, like the human gut microbiome.
Published in Nature Microbiology.
Behind the Paper
Pd doping offers a promising route to modulate the interfacial charge transport of graphene quantum dot–based heterostructures, enabling their integration as functional interlayers in advanced device architectures.
Behind the Paper: Intersecting Impacts of Ageing, Migration, and Socioeconomic Disparities on Health Equity – A Post-Pandemic Policy Review
Born from the COVID-19 crisis, this paper reveals how ageing, migration, and socioeconomic inequality intersect to shape health outcomes. It highlights that these forces must be studied together to address deepening health inequities and guide inclusive post-pandemic recovery policies.
