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No joke: today may be April Fool’s Day, but the ӳ����ýMinded Blog crew isn’t fooling around. We’ve gathered some of our favorite strange but true facts about chemical biology, population genetics, and the twists and turns of the genome. A special thanks to Alice McCarthy and Leah Eisenstadt for helping gather these.

Chemical reactions are constantly happening in the body as molecules are assembled or broken down. These internal molecules are called metabolites, and more than 6,000 can be found in humans. Metabolites include amino acids, vitamins, hormones, and just about any other naturally occurring molecule that is not DNA, RNA, or protein. Metabolite profiling, or metabolomics, is the study of the levels of all of the body's naturally occurring small molecules.

Authorship on a scholarly paper is coin of the realm in science. For the first time at the ӳ����ý, two young men earned that honor for work they performed as freshly minted summer interns in a program for high-school students.