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After F1000 Posters, our next best-kept secret is F1000 Reports. F1000 Section Heads select the topics, as well as authors who can summarize and put into context recent developments and emerging themes in biology and medicine. The Reports are relatively short, peer-reviewed and adapted versions are featured in The Scientist magazine—oh, and they’re available in Medicine and Biology flavours. They are also indexed in the usual places (including PubMed Central) and even have DOIs.

This month, Sam Byers and Aaron Bernstein discuss the indirect effects of climate change—curtailed access to water and food, and displacement of communities—in the context of their effects on human health. Join in the discussion at the magazine article.

Caetano Antunes, Julian Davies and Brett Finlay take a look at chemical signalling in the gut, and make the provocative claim that this could be a place to find new, pharmacologically beneficial, bioactive compounds. Again, this is accompanied by an article at The Scientist.

In Medicine, Walter Park looks at recent developments in diagnosing pancreatic cancer from analysis of pancreatic cyst fluid, and Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter ponder the pros and cons of deep brain stimulation, and whether there should be clinical trials of its use in treating addiction.

A short note about PDFs

PDFs of all Reports articles are available: but you have to go back up to the listings to see the link to the PDF (or, if you’re smart, you can append ‘pdf’ to the URL: https://f1000.com/reports/b/3/4/ becomes https://f1000.com/reports/b/3/4/pdf for example). There’s a fix for this in the works, I am reliably informed.