Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Impact of nutrition counseling on dietary improvements, glycemic control, and neonatal outcomes in pregnant women with pregestational diabetes mellitus
Pregestational diabetes increases risks for both mother and infant. This study analyzed medical charts to evaluate how individualized nutrition counseling improved diet quality, glycemic control, and neonatal outcomes in women with pregestational diabetes.
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.
