Peiqing Sun, Ph.D., (right) is an associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute. Hui Zheng, Ph.D. (left), research associate in the Sun lab, was first author of the Molecular Cell study.

Think again! Zheng Yi Sao - a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century - blows them both out of the water. Script by Emma Nagouse, University of ...