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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/463850a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

How Nature pick papers for their journal

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This is a brilliant idea Alicia! And thanks for posting so many nature related articles, I'm doing an Animal Science degree at Uni so they're just my kinda thing

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HellzBellz wrote:

This is a brilliant idea Alicia! And thanks for posting so many nature related articles, I'm doing an Animal Science degree at Uni so they're just my kinda thing External Media

I think I'm bombarding everyone with biology External Media I'm glad some people are appreciating it though! What year of your degree are you in? Hope you're enjoying it!

Adxx

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HellzBellz wrote:

And thanks for posting so many nature related articles, I'm doing an Animal Science degree at Uni so they're just my kinda thing External Media

Here we go http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/red-crested-rodent-reappears-a.html

Red crested tree rat reappears for the first time in 113 years!

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Alicia D'amore wrote:

I think I'm bombarding everyone with biology External Media I'm glad some people are appreciating it though! What year of your degree are you in? Hope you're enjoying it!

Adxx

Just finished my first year. I am thank u External Media

Alicia D'amore wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13424246

Very endagered (and impossibly cute) monkey successfully bred outside of Brazil for the first time.

Just found out the Black Lion Tamarin was born at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, in Jersey where I'm from External Media it's so exciting!
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Alicia D'amore wrote:

Here we go http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/red-crested-rodent-reappears-a.html

Red crested tree rat reappears for the first time in 113 years!

Thanks External Media as well as it being incredibly cute, this is amazing!

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/may/20/2?CMP=twt_fd

Heathens - beware, Christian cars may cause untold trouble tomorrow at 6pm.

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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/74653/title/Suspect_bacterium_may_trigger_Parkinson%E2%80%99s?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Is it possible that Helicobacter pylori, the stomach ulcer causing bacteria, is involved in Parkinson's Disease development? More research needed.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13441738

This makes me sad... I really want science to find the cure!!!!

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20503-zoologger-clone-army-steals-genes-from-other-species.html

Clever cloners steal genes to prevent mutations building up

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http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1W4dd24547c59a9591.cde

Science Graduate advice from New Scientist

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http://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/

Should we use scientific method to improve our political policies?

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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html

Following on from a discussion in another thread - science PhDs around the globe. Is supply higher than demand?

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028132.800-rewriting-the-textbooks-when-a-gene-isnt-a-gene.html

What is a gene? It's now more complicated than ever!

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20471-sound-test-could-identify-lockedin-patients.html

A possible new way to distinguish between "locked in" patients and patients in a vegetative or brain dead state.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028124.700-neurons-with-double-dna-implicated-in-alzheimers.html

New information on the cause of Alzheimer's...

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.500-do-early-gut-problems-set-the-brain-up-for-depression.html

Can a tummy ache really cause depression?

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028083.500-how-antidepressants-boost-growth-of-new-brain-cells.html

Antidepressents seem to work by stimulating glucocorticoid (steroid based hormones) receptors in the hippocampus and causing brain cell growth - could this new finding improve the production of antidepressents and allow more directed treatments?

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Alicia D'amore wrote:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.500-do-early-gut-problems-set-the-brain-up-for-depression.html

Can a tummy ache really cause depression?

Interesting, when I eat something wheat based its not just the pain thats an issue but the low, lethargic mood I go into. It certainly affects more than just my gut and have noticed that my mum seems to be the same when she eats something that triggers her IBS..

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/limbless-turtle-embryos-move-t.html

Turtle embryos move in their eggs despite being limbless..puzzling.