Psst–read any good overviews of the Functions of the Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Pathway in Drosophila Development lately? (Yeah, who hasn’t, I know…) I mention it because a mutant phenotype (specifically, a fluorescent protein in fruit flies) has now been nicknamed "photoshop" by researchers Mark Metzstein & Mark Krasnow. ["Shouldn’t that be Adobe® Photoshop® software?" murmur a dozen voices in Adobe Legal. 😉 ] They write, "We named this the ‘photoshop’ phenotype because it increased visualization of clones like that achieved by digital enhancement with Photoshop software (Adobe, http://www.adobe.com)." [Ah, says Legal.] As a highly nonsense-mediated individual, I say very cool, guys!
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