Jessica Shugart

Science writer at Alzforum. Tweets are my own.

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Microglia may pick off anti-social neurons early in development: Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections http://t.co/JjbnD3EeAM

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Science can only go so far in est. "safe" pesticide levels. So why not feed kids organic when you can?@lssciencenews. http://t.co/FhDXqoYMvV

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Syn bio companies cannot live on biofuels alone—synthetic food additives sweeten the deal. @Erika_Check http://t.co/u3AJtdlksi

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

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@DrGhaheri Thank you! It was a pleasure to write.

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

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@MeghanDRosen This Onion story http://t.co/n2Xh10hzLo reminds me of your "obesity microbes" story http://t.co/y2Hrw67bqp. Obese microbes!

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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 http://t.co/1pz3npoGik

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

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

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

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

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

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@mbloudoff Yes, will do! Great to meet you.

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"Collections of molecules that are not alive, are alive." -George Whitesides #sciwri13 We don't know how that happens...

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"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

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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 http://t.co/kZoImUEH9k via @TheOnion

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