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Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees? [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ep]
David Baracchi, Mark J. F. Brown, Lars Chittka

Bumblebees infected with a parasite have a preference for sucrose laced with nicotine, suggesting they self-medicate. This article was featured on IFLScience .

 

Articles that recently passed peer review

Sepsis breakthroughs in 2014 [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ft]
James A. Russell, Keith R. Walley

This article is part of the new F1000 Faculty Reviews channel, which replaces the F1000Prime Reports journal. Read more on our blog.

Epidemiology and patterns of musculoskeletal motorcycle injuries in the USA [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/444]
Sean T. Burns, Zbigniew Gugala, Carlos J. Jimenez, William J. Mileski, Ronald W. Lindsey

Design and conduct of Xtreme Everest 2: An observational cohort study of Sherpa and lowlander responses to graduated hypobaric hypoxia [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/57m]
Edward Gilbert-Kawai, Adam Sheperdigian, Thomas Adams, Kay Mitchell … Rajendra Kumar, Michael Mythen, Michael Grocott, Daniel Martin

Dynamics of Ebola epidemics in West Africa 2014 [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5fh]
Robin J. Evans, Musa Mammadov