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New light shed on who benefits most from weight-loss jabs

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs to treat obesity, research suggests.

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3rd annual Fossil Day teaches P.E.I. kids how to find prehistoric treasures

Prince Edward Island is rich with fossils from the Permian period, roughly 290 million years ago. A lot of the known specimens in the province are discovered by children, making the third annual Fossil Day in Charlottetown that much more important for teaching young people how to identify them. CBC P.E.I. went to check it out.

From the CBC News-2026-4-16:20:35:2

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Microbial Predation Conference 2026
Monte VeritÃ , Switzerland   July 27-31, 2026

UPDATE: REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN (deadline June 12th)

Join us in lovely Ticino, Switzerland to discuss what microbial predation
looks like, how it originates and evolves, and how it shapes microbial
communities. Researchers studying diverse aspects of microbial predation
with different predator-prey systems will gather to promote conceptual
synthesis across systems and questions.

Conference website: https://microbialpredation.ethz.ch
Register for conference updates at
https://microbialpredation.ethz.ch/registration.html

Invited speakers include:
Lutz Becks - University of Constance, Germany
Antonis Chatzinotas - Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research,
Leipzig, Germany
Yen-Ping Hsueh - Max-Planck Institute for Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
Andrew Lovering - University of Birmingham, UK
David Queller - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Joan Strassmann - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Renske van Raaphorst - University of Groningen, The Netherlands

With the Conference on Microbial Predation 2026, we seek to bring
together microbial-predation researchers who rarely meet under a single
scientific umbrella, including molecular microbiologists, ecologists,
evolutionary biologists, theoreticians, and biocontrol researchers,
promoting integration across microbial systems and connection with
concepts largely associated with macroscopic predators. The conference
provides a forum where diverse perspectives can converge to build shared
conceptual frameworks, new interdisciplinary collaborations can be
initiated, and the global community of microbial-predation researchers
can more deeply interconnect.

We welcome researchers working with animals who want to think more about
microbial predation.

Major themes:

Molecular mechanisms
   Behavior
   Ecology
   Evolution
   Social aspects of predation
   Applications

Scientific organizers:

Marie Vasse, CNRS - University of Bordeaux, France 
marie.vasse@u-bordeaux.fr

Greg Velicer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
gregory.velicer@env.ethz.ch

For administrative questions, please contact us at
microbialpredation2026@ethz.ch

Velicer  Gregory <gregory.velicer@env.ethz.ch>

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