Jessica Shugart

Can DNA mods from toxins be passed down through generations? The "Epigenetics Heretic" says yes, but skeptics abound. http://t.co/ekyxIBJ5pO

Breast is best, but scientists hope to spread the wealth to those w/out access to marvelous milk oligosaccharides. https://t.co/PbDq8XmrBY

NIce: Growers may take "a savoir-faire attitude to terroir instead of a je ne sais quoi shrug." Microbes Add to Wines http://t.co/1pz3npoGik

I know where you can put those pink gloves...Stop Demanding Positivity From Cancer Survivors. @xwaldie http://t.co/jNlUjHm6Oi

Move over antibiotics: Probiotics protect piggies from nasty E. Coli infections. https://t.co/89ZiVxU5iX

Glimpses of the present and future look a lot like the pre-antibiotic past: “Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future” https://t.co/oMN9b3kTBj

Will fast reactors put our nuclear waste to good use one day? Our Nuclear Waste Is a Goldmine http://t.co/3M07yNdD53 via @NautilusMag

Microbes may act as partners in chemotherapy's cancer-killing crimes. @SN_Saey http://t.co/S9uR1LIHCt

"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

"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

RT @phylogenomics: Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building http://t.co/kZoImUEH9k via @TheOnion

A satisfying expose by @laurahelmuth: NIH's outrageous attempt to rewrite human genome seq. history. http://t.co/oHHgJWMkNB … via @slate

Are you paying $200/lb for coffee that comes out of a civet's butt? Please stop. Impt. reasons to avoid poop coffee. http://t.co/6Ohymy78xT

From a silk-spinning goat to spider monkeys to frog-trees, the Center for PostNatural History sounds weirdly cool. http://t.co/IT0kngg34T

Hunting lizards with fire in the Australian desert keeps the reptiles coming back for more. https://t.co/uXfchjyzGJ