ScienceSeeker Editors' Selections: October 20-26

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors' Selections for the past week:

• Behind the scenes: plastic-eating barnacles in the North Pacific Gyre at Deep Sea News by Miriam Goldstein


• Legendary stag Pokémon Xerneas has a prehistoric doppelgänger at Running Ponies by Becky Crew


• Down syndrome suppresed in patient-derived stem cells at Stem Cells Freak by Filotheos Xoleras


• Cancer-Killing Capsule at Inside Science

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