Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Comparing the Toxicity of Conventional Drinking Waters and Municipal Wastewaters Purified as Drinking Water Supplies
While utilities in arid regions are increasingly purifying municipal wastewater as a sustainable water supply, lingering concerns about health risks have hindered implementation. Our recent study indicates that the toxicity of potable reuse waters is equal or lower than conventional drinking waters.
Do dirty viruses make you sicker?
Recent paper we contributed to looked at the role of defective viral genomes in the disease after influenza virus infection.
BID-seq: A quantitative method mapping pseudouridine (Ψ) sites at base resolution
Functional studies of RNA pseudouridine (Ψ) modification have been limited by lacking quantitatively map individual Ψ sites transcriptome-wide. To address this challenge, Dai et al. developed BID-seq, a method for quantitative mapping of Ψ at single-nucleotide resolution.
How genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement together
It’s widely known that children's achievement is shaped by a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors, but robust examples of gene-environment interactions have been elusive. A population-wide, multigenerational study sheds new light on this.
The lightest neutron star?
The mass of the central compact object in supernova remnant HESS J1731-347 estimated using modelling of its X-ray spectrum turns out to be almost too low
