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One of the hallowed traditions at Faculty of 1000 is the Friday Cake Club, a treasured institution at our London office that provides that sugary rush necessary to make it to the weekend. Today, however, Eva Amsen (Outreach Director) came up with something pretty special — a DNA-themed cake with the bases TGCGCGAAAGAA, which would code for Cysteine – Alanine – Lysine – Glutamic acid. Or in other words C-A-K-E.

We can vouch for the fact it was pretty tasty too…

Have a great weekend everyone!

100 years barking up the wrong tree? A new F1000Report asks whether we’ve got multiple sclerosis backwards: ow.ly/lGufJ

— F1000Prime (@F1000) June 4, 2013

Evolutionary tit-for-tat: anti-CRISPR, the new player in the arms race between phages and bacteria. – ow.ly/lAxWD

— F1000Prime (@F1000) June 4, 2013

Could a maternal high-fat diet affect next generation mental health? It’s linked to anxiety in rat offspring. – ow.ly/lAxWR

— F1000Prime (@F1000) June 5, 2013

And elsewhere on Twitter…

This week, @carlzimmer writes on the sex lives of birds, AKA the case of the disappearing duck penis: nytimes.com/2013/06/06/sci…

— NYT Science (@nytimesscience) June 6, 2013

wonderful developmental biology sculptures in London @streetanatomy @the_node @pangolinlondon twitter.com/RGDownes/statu…

— Richard Downes (@RGDownes) June 3, 2013

“Yes, this is good. But you know what? A face transplant would be better.” vrge.co/15xO0au

— Katie Drummond (@katiedrumm) June 4, 2013