lpetrich

Reminds me of <a href="http://www.devbio.com/aprilf/aprfool.html" target="_blank">this developmental-biology humor page</a>.

lpetrich

Here is that page's contents:

1 . New abstracts for the Developmental Biology Society Meeting

Includes:
Pax-6 expression in potatoes
Distal-less expression in human umbilical cords

2. The mRNA Song. This is the song, to the tune of "YMCA", that was performed at the SDB meeting at Stanford University. You'll have to make up your own hand movements.

3. The Genome Song. Traditionally sung by developmental genetics students after the last seminar, each person adding their own new verses. We'll leave out the one about why we're deuterostomes.

4. The Histone Song. When things get really silly, there's always the Histone Song.

5. My Fair XX. A two-act parody of My Fair Lady, complete with songs. A molecular biology professor bets that he can pass off an ecology student as a molecular biologist at the next molecular biology society meeting. All you have to do is teach her to speak the language.

6. A review of the forthcoming book, Bluff Your Way in Developmental Biology.

7. Thomas Jefferson's Grant Request Denied. An archivist has found the answer of the British Government to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

8. Peeps, a sibling species to chickens and composed primarily of marshmallow, are always born as conjoined quintuplets. Some scientists have theorized that this arrangement serves as a natural protection against predators. As evidence, note that Peeps are most often consumed by predators only after they have been separated. Here, surgery is done to separate the Peep siblings.

Oolon Colluphid

It was back last December, so it's in the archives. It's <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=001471&p=3" target="_blank">on this page</a>.

DT