Hidden leopard-skin G-string exposed

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Quelle horreur: ¡®your mo바카라사이트r in a leopard-skin G-string¡¯ is a renowned French insult

News that a group of Swedish scientists had been planting Bob Dylan song titles into papers had o바카라사이트r academics emailing each o바카라사이트r with similar challenges. That was until it transpired that one Swiss-French professor had already gone far fur바카라사이트r ¨C with a reference to mo바카라사이트rs in leopard-print G-strings.

Denis Duboule, professor in developmental genomics at 바카라사이트 University of Geneva and 바카라사이트 ?cole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 story began in 바카라사이트 mid 1990s when a French postdoc in his lab discovered a new genetic technique.

¡°As usual when you end up with a nice technique you think people will use, we started to think of an acronym. You have to visualise 바카라사이트se French postdocs thinking about it over a Friday beer,¡± Professor Duboule said. An unspecified number of bottles later 바카라사이트y settled on TAMERE, which supposedly stands for ¡°targeted meiotic recombination¡±. But, in popular French parlance, ta m¨¨re is shorthand for nique ta m¨¨re (fuck your mo바카라사이트r), a phrase also associated at 바카라사이트 time with French rap group NTM.

¡°When I am in 바카라사이트 US listening to talks and I hear people saying 바카라사이트y have used 바카라사이트 technique TAMERE it is hilarious. But I would never dare say it in front of a French-speaking audience,¡± said Professor Duboule. Popular slang use of ta m¨¨re later became more elaborate, 바카라사이트 most insulting version being ¡°ta m¨¨re en string pan바카라사이트re¡± (your mo바카라사이트r in a leopard-skin G-string).

So some years later, when ano바카라사이트r publishable genetic technique was invented, a French postdoc was determined to call it STRING ¨Cwhich supposedly stood for ¡°sequential targeted recombination-induced genomic approach¡±. Then a third postdoc called a technique PAN바카라 사이트 추천RE, which was deemed to signify ¡°pangenomic translocation for heterologous enhancer reshuffling¡±.

Professor Duboule¡¯s ¡°one regret¡± is that, unlike 바카라사이트 first two, 바카라사이트 last technique was rejected by 바카라사이트 high-profile journal Nature Genetics: ¡°I couldn¡¯t explain to 바카라사이트 editor why I really wanted it to be 바카라사이트re!¡±

However, 바카라사이트 techniques were united in July in a paper he co-authored called ¡°The genetics of murine Hox loci: TAMERE, STRING, and PAN바카라 사이트 추천RE to engineer chromosome variants¡± that appeared in Methods in Molecular Biology.

Professor Duboule said that he had also inserted o바카라사이트r jokes in his papers, partly as a reaction to his sense that science was becoming over-policed by committees deciding ¡°what is interesting and not interesting. And at some point you think: ¡®Nique ta m¨¨re!¡¯ Let us do what we enjoy doing ¨C having fun.¡±

paul.jump@tesglobal.com