Similar to the meme… godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to… SOME standard naming.
Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She’d come home being like “you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the ‘sonic the hedgehog’ gene of their kid?!” If you’re familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it’s fucking horrific in humans. Don’t google it.
It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they’re inactivated.
They didn’t just go “Let’s name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!”, at least not for that.
Though they did name SHH’s inhibitor Robotnikin.
That’s a way cool name!
Alternatively you’re asking physiology questions and the first paper that pops up is written by a 90s phrenologist whose Wikipedia page states they’re a well known white supremacist.
Got two sentences into the abstract before stating “hol up”.
What question? What paper? Inquiring minds want to know!
The 40s and 50s where the decades for unethical human experimentation. There’s all kind of random shit that we shouldn’t know, but do know because of that period.
Gotcha, I was just wondering what specific “slightly bad shit“ paper, and ethical dilemma, they had run across
Go watch Fringe. It’s probably one of those.
Fringe is probably all of those.
I have to assume some of them are fiction.
mostly because it seems a little improbable. Like turning skin transparent? … why…?
This happened a couple of months ago…
“This discovery could be revolutionary. Imagine being able to monitor organ function without invasive procedures, or see precisely where a vein is to draw blood. It could also pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding how diseases affect the body at a microscopic level.”
I once wrote a short paper for a high school science class about MKUltra and the Holmsburg Prison Experiments. Nothing quite like heading a supposed man of science refer to a bunch of humans like they are cattle.
Don’t search for the secret explosive that mythbusters discovered
