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Reading Day!
Aug. 2nd, 2007 10:39 amWell, reading, doing my tax, and struggling pathetically with the housework day.
Right now I'm reading up on human pigmentation genetics for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cluelessch1x0r. I want to be able to convert the technical stuff into English, but I'm not sure how much jargon I can get away with. So here's a straw poll:
[Poll #1031901]
In other news, I'm even more convinced that scientists would be wise to rename certain genes, because I just stumbled across the genetic explanation for cyclopia - 1 in 16,000 live human births, 1 in 200 miscarriages, always fatal. (Remember the one-eyed kitten? Holy shit.) Once your heart-breakingly deformed baby has passed away, you don't need some counsellor telling you the responsible gene was sonic hedgehog.
Right now I'm reading up on human pigmentation genetics for
cluelessch1x0r. I want to be able to convert the technical stuff into English, but I'm not sure how much jargon I can get away with. So here's a straw poll:[Poll #1031901]
In other news, I'm even more convinced that scientists would be wise to rename certain genes, because I just stumbled across the genetic explanation for cyclopia - 1 in 16,000 live human births, 1 in 200 miscarriages, always fatal. (Remember the one-eyed kitten? Holy shit.) Once your heart-breakingly deformed baby has passed away, you don't need some counsellor telling you the responsible gene was sonic hedgehog.
