New research has found that social interactions among meerkats may be crucial to their health and survival – thanks to the sharing of beneficial gut bacteria.

A new study has identified over 240 scientific publications on animal models of hemorrhagic stroke that contain potentially problematic images, thereby raising concerns about the trustworthiness of the body of literature this field. The findings come from a team led by René Aquarius and Kim Wever at Radboud university medical center in the Netherlands, and are published October 30^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.