Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Visualizing phenotypic heterogeneity in C. difficile gene expression in situ during infection
What happens when you can see bacterial gene expression in situ inside an infected host? By developing fluorescent reporters, we visualized Clostridioides difficile toxin gene expression, revealing unexpected biology that only emerges in the bacterium’s native context of infection.
When Missing Data Can Change the Story
This paper was born from a simple question that kept coming back during our own work on ionospheric trends: how much do data gaps really matter?
Scaffolding the Scaffolder: How Artificial inteligence Can Support Parents Without Replacing Them
When people hear about AIs and children, they imagine robots teaching, chatbots tutoring, or systems that try to replace human instruction. Our research began in a much more ordinary place, yet extraordinary for early development: a caregiver sitting with a child, reading a picture book together.
A New WiMAX/Wi-Fi Interoperability Model and Its Performance Evaluation
Published in Wireless Personal Communications, 3 March 2013
Tiny bubbles that can swim, be seen, and help drugs go deeper
Imagine a drug carrier you can watch as it moves, guide to a target, and then switch on at the right moment
From Refusal to Recovery: What One Family Taught Us About Health Literacy in TB
One patient’s refusal to take TB medicine despite counselling exposed a deeper issue: a gap in health literacy. Our study investigates how this gap impacts patients especially those with comorbidities and what it means for TB elimination in India.
When an archive becomes an instrument: reading solar history in tree rings
Blog behind the paper "Patterns in solar activity over the first millennium CE", written by Ronny Friedrich and Michael See, edited by Jian Wang
An evolving landscape for development and studies of antibodies in allergy at the molecular level
The vast diversity of antibodies poses challenges for their characterisation. Allergy-causing IgE poses particular challenges in this respect. We propose integration of a diversity of high-throughput technologies to capture IgE as found in allergic subjects, to promote research of allergic disease.
