@JessicaShugart

Science writer at Alzforum. Tweets are my own.

 Chico, CA
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Joined October 2011
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Microglia may pick off anti-social neurons early in development: Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections bit.ly/1bVVu9k
Science can only go so far in est. "safe" pesticide levels. So why not feed kids organic when you can?@lssciencenews. bit.ly/1fy94En

Should your kid eat organic? The answer is complicated | Science News

The science behind kids’ pesticide exposure is complicated and patchy.

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Syn bio companies cannot live on biofuels alone—synthetic food additives sweeten the deal. @Erika_Check bit.ly/1e7UxjY
Can DNA mods from toxins be passed down through generations? The "Epigenetics Heretic" says yes, but skeptics abound. bit.ly/1esv9QF
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Breast is best, but scientists hope to spread the wealth to those w/out access to marvelous milk oligosaccharides. sciencenews.org/article/moth…

Mother lode

Certain sugar molecules in human breast milk do more to foster beneficial microbes, and banish harmful ones, than they do to nourish newborns.

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NIce: Growers may take "a savoir-faire attitude to terroir instead of a je ne sais quoi shrug." Microbes Add to Wines nyti.ms/1euQYBC
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I know where you can put those pink gloves...Stop Demanding Positivity From Cancer Survivors. @xwaldie slate.me/1935eNn
Move over antibiotics: Probiotics protect piggies from nasty E. Coli infections. sciencenews.org/article/prob…

Probiotics may protect piglets from E. coli infection

Beneficial bacteria could replace antibiotics in pig feed.

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Glimpses of the present and future look a lot like the pre-antibiotic past: “Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future” medium.com/p/892b57499e77
Will fast reactors put our nuclear waste to good use one day? Our Nuclear Waste Is a Goldmine bit.ly/18qwyZq via @NautilusMag
Microbes may act as partners in chemotherapy's cancer-killing crimes. @SN_Saey bit.ly/1iyJxMn
"Collections of molecules that are not alive, are alive." -George Whitesides #sciwri13 We don't know how that happens...
"I'd like to thank our funding agency, and the huge amount of people that have collected lice all over the world." -David Reed #sciwri13
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"Getting pubic lice off of a gorilla is really hard." -David Reed #sciwri13
Humans and lice: "riding through evolutionary time as partners."-David Reed #sciwri13
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Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building onion.com/deCRw7 via @TheOnion
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A satisfying expose by @laurahelmuth: NIH's outrageous attempt to rewrite human genome seq. history. slate.com/articles/health_an… … via @slate

Francis Collins and the NIH’s Scandalous Attempt to Claim Full Credit for Sequencing the Human...

One of the juiciest, most heated, and ultimately most productive rivalries in the recent history of science was the race to sequence the human genome....

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Are you paying $200/lb for coffee that comes out of a civet's butt? Please stop. Impt. reasons to avoid poop coffee. bit.ly/19zLBPx
From a silk-spinning goat to spider monkeys to frog-trees, the Center for PostNatural History sounds weirdly cool. bit.ly/Hb3hrd
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Hunting lizards with fire in the Australian desert keeps the reptiles coming back for more. sciencenews.org/article/hunt…

Hunting boosts lizard numbers in Australian desert

Reptiles prefer to live in places aboriginal people have burned.

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