"My tattoo is from an Irving Geis illustration of DNA. I was attracted to his attention to the molecular detail while also drawing in a representational spiral that doesn't ignore the basic beauty of the double helix. This particular sequence (I've BLASTED) is too short to be specific to only one gene, but one human gene it's found it is the 5' UTR of one of our tight junctions."-Matthew MacDougall, 4th year medical student
Is there no end to the science tattoos out there?
See the 70 I've gotten so far at the Flickr set.
Life Science
Comments
You've been tagged with the Animal Meme. :)
Posted by: John Dennehy | September 28, 2007 8:32 AM
Is that tattoo genuine...? It doesn't look quite centered on his spine, which would be odd, it also looks very clear and detailed...almost as if it's been overlaid from a graphic in Photoshop or something...
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Posted by: David Bradley | September 28, 2007 10:46 AM
I know Matthew. It is indeed genuine and not a Photoshop job.
Posted by: Steven Sacks | September 28, 2007 1:41 PM
I've tried scrubbing (with soap). It will not come off. Whether that means it's genuine or not, I don't know.
Posted by: Matthew MacDougall | September 28, 2007 2:47 PM
That is so cool!!!! It really makes me want on.
Posted by: DNA matron | September 28, 2007 3:16 PM
That's a good one.
Posted by: factician | October 1, 2007 2:42 PM
Bravo! You have invented a new field: Tattoo informatics.
Posted by: Aaron Rowe | October 6, 2007 2:38 PM
Does anyone know where I could find the original image on the wall in this photo? Call me Mr Copycat, but I love this tattoo so much I'd like to get one similar.
Posted by: Ben H | March 16, 2008 5:46 PM