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You are what you eat. Or maybe, the way you behave depends on what’s happening in your gut. These goes beyond chocolate, or bananas, making you feel happy: chronic gastric inflammation makes mice anxious, through measurable biochemical changes. An interesting implication is that clinical treatment of intestinal disorders could improve behavioural abnormalities (Bercik et al. 2010).

One of the great things about F1000 is seeing papers (such as the above) that I would never have noticed while working in a lab, and that maybe are not earth-shattering but fall squarely into the ‘huh. Fancy that’ category. The Royal Society’s Proceedings is rapidly becoming a good source of such beasts.

Did you know, for example, that between 10 and 20 percent of flowering plant species are missing? No, me neither. And sadly, it is these plants we don’t know about that are most likely to be at risk of extinction (Joppa et al. 2010, full free text).

The new Poster Bank leaps buildings in a single bound–or at least goes from strength to strength:

Due to the volume of new posters being deposited, we have changed the navigation of this site to Topics and Sections for easier browsing. View our latest submissions from the recent Physiology 2010, 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) 2010, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2010, and Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2010 meetings, and the ISMB