What's behind Alzheimer's? What controls appetite? Find out in our September 25-October 1 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

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• New Alzheimer’s Study Sheds Light on the Mysterious Tau Protein by Maya Gosztyla at AlzScience
• The Frenemy Inside You: tales of bacterial cooperation and collusion by Maya Emmons-Bell at Equilibria
• In The Future, The Best Solution To Cavities Might Be A Vaccine by Mohendra Shiwnarain at Science Trends
• Researchers Identify Brain Cells that Control Our Appetite at Sci-News.com
• The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
• A Journey With Jellyfish: Understanding Sleep In Brainless Animals by Michael Abrams at Science Trends
• The chemistry of poisonous frogs, and how they avoid poisoning themselves by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Logging Industry Needs to Face the Facts on Boreal Caribou by Anthony Swift and Jen Skene at NRDC Expert Blog
• Birds of a Feather Hunt Better Together by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth’s plate tectonics by Michael Marshall at New Scientist
• Recovery: A tale of three hurricanes by William Hooke at Living on the Real World
• Five questions you were too embarrassed to ask about the expanding universe and The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, After All by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• The Last Woman to Win a Physics Nobel by Elizabeth Landau at Scientific American
• The Real Problem With Voice Assistants Like Siri Is Your Brain by Robbie Gondalez at Wired
• Who cares that we no longer have privacy? by Ransom Stephens at The Measure of Things
• Researchers Learn How Ketamine Acts on the Brain by Rick Nauert at PsychCentral
• The Psychology of Taking a Knee by Jeremy Adam Smith and Dacher Keltner at Scientific American
• Suicidal tendencies hard to spot in some people with autism by Katherine Gotham at Spectrum
• What Germany’s election results mean for science by Quirin Schiermeier and Alison Abbott at Nature

Check back next week for more great picks!