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"People in my life just play different roles": A retrospective qualitative study of friendships among young adults who self-harmed during adolescence (2025)
Journal Article
Bilello, D., Townsend, E., Broome, M. R., & Burnett Heyes, S. (2025). "People in my life just play different roles": A retrospective qualitative study of friendships among young adults who self-harmed during adolescence. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0320206. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320206

Self-harm is a global public health concern presenting increasing rates in recent years, especially among young people. This population seldom access formal help, and typically rely on informal sources of support, mainly friends. The role, importance... Read More about "People in my life just play different roles": A retrospective qualitative study of friendships among young adults who self-harmed during adolescence.

Workforce career development in public health, health education, and the health services: insights from 30 years of cross-disciplinary national and international mentoring (2025)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (in press). Workforce career development in public health, health education, and the health services: insights from 30 years of cross-disciplinary national and international mentoring. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,

This paper presents my personal experience of cross-disciplinary national and international academic mentoring over 30 years in a higher education setting, supporting 605 mentees in public health, health education, and the health services. I supporte... Read More about Workforce career development in public health, health education, and the health services: insights from 30 years of cross-disciplinary national and international mentoring.

Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli (2025)
Journal Article
Twycross, J., & Pearcy, N. (in press). Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli. Metabolites, Advances in Metabolomics(Comprehensive Insights into Metabolic Pathways: Genome-Scale Modeling Techniques),

Microbes as chemical factories provide an alternative sustainable approach for producing platform chemicals. Until recently, most efforts have involved engineering heterologous pathways into a single microbial chassis to maximise its production of a... Read More about Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli.

myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research (2025)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Emery, J., McDaid, L., Naughton, F., Clark, M., Dickinson, A., Cooper, S., & Coleman, T. (2025). myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research. BMC Research Notes, 18, Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-025-07195-2

Objective
Smoking during pregnancy poses significant health risks, necessitating accurate continuous monitoring of pregnant women’s smoking behaviours. Existing methods relying on self-reporting lack objectivity, while biochemical measures like exha... Read More about myCOtrak: an app which records smoking, nicotine use and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations concurrently for use in smoking research.

Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase (2025)
Journal Article
Shahid, T., Danazumi, A. U., Tehseen, M., Alhudhali, L., Clark, A. R., Savva, C. G., Hamdan, S. M., & De Biasio, A. (2025). Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08766-w

Hexameric helicases are nucleotide-driven molecular machines that unwind DNA to initiate replication across all domains of life. Despite decades of intensive study, several critical aspects of their function remain unresolved1: the site and mechanism... Read More about Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase.