From The Weekly Show with Darius Balčiūnas: How bad has the obesity epidemic become in the US? So bad that even rats need gastric bypasses!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/406
Quite interesting findings though

A different kind of genetic testing:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/full/499383b.html

Cool stuff in a moldy way:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/full/499382c.html

If you wish to complain that zebrafish breeding and regeneration take a long time, how about this project:
http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418

Check out the rosy outlook for life sciences PhDs in the end of paragraph one:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_07_24/caredit.a1300150

Another bit of information can be extracted from their data :
-14,500 PhDs are awarded in life/med sciences annually
- there are 10,500 postdocs in a given year (I guess this number is an underestimate)
- average postdoc length is 5 years (my conservative guess, really 6-7) = only 1 in 7 new PhDs can get a postdoc position?!

Now that I got all of you feeling sad and down, how about some fun:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_07_26/caredit.a1300151

Not a lot this week:

For those of you who think that everything cool has already been discovered:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/281.full

Here is a example of "over promising". Think about it: how would you practically insert XIST into chromosome 23 (and only 23) of many Down patient's cells? Oh, and even if you could- it would be too late because by the time you see the baby, many abnormalies have already manifested to the point of obviously visible. Good basic science otherwise, but the "translational" angle is ridiculous.
http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-turn-off-down-s-syndrome-genes-1.13406

I suppose I should look at this through a glass-half-full lens:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7458/full/nj7458-371a.html