In a paper published in National Science Review, an international team of scientists develop an activatable red/near-infrared water-soluble organic room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) probe through a synergistic strategy combining assembly-induced luminescence and tunable twisted intramolecular charge transfer. They evaluate the optical performance of activatable organic RTP probes in various bioimaging and biosensing applications.

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals.  

From food security to controlling seaweed and even making sand for beaches, reef fish are a hugely important part of marine ecosystems providing a range of benefits to humans and coral reef ecosystems.

New research from an international team of marine scientists from the UK and Australia and led by researchers at Lancaster University, published today in the journal Nature Communications, reveals significant transformations in fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef, the World’s largest coral reef ecosystem.

Scientists have struggled for decades to understand why radiation therapy kills cells from the same tumour in different ways. This is important because some forms of cell death are unnoticed by the immune system, while others trigger an immune response. Unleashing the patient’s immune system to clear tumours is a major goal of cancer treatment. This new research, published in Nature Cell Biology, reveals for the first time how DNA repair, which normally protects healthy cells, determines how cancer cells die following radiotherapy.