After six years of intensive research and testing, the Rhisotope Project has officially reached operational status – where rhinos will effectively be protected through nuclear technology.

The project aims to disrupt the illegal rhino horn trade by embedding low-level radioactive isotopes into the horn. These radioisotopes can be detected by radiation detection equipment at countries borders around the world, allowing for the effective interception of trafficked horns.

We developed THER, a web tool integrating 63 hypoxia-related tumor transcriptomic datasets, enabling differential expression, expression profiling, correlation, enrichment, and drug sensitivity analyses. It helps identify valuable biomarkers, further reveal the molecular mechanisms of tumor hypoxia, and identify effective drugs, thus providing a scientific basis for tumor diagnosis and treatment. Experimental verification showed hypoxia reduces tumor cell sensitivity to chemotherapy drugs. Accessible at https://smuonco.shinyapps.io/THER/.

Western University researchers have developed an innovative way to reconstruct how crickets sing, based on the physical formation of the chirping insects’ wings, using measurements from preserved samples and computational modelling.

Evolutionary plant biologists at the University of Toronto have identified a protein that evolved approximately 500 million years ago, enabling plants to convert light into energy through photosynthesis as they moved from aquatic environments to land. The discovery provides a target for sustainable herbicides against parasitic plants and other weeds and may help boost food security by increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis in crops.