Finding Geek Ink

Back in 2007, The Looms blogger Carl Zimmer chanced upon a scientist friend with a rather geeky DNA tattoo. On enquiry he discovered that the DNA art etched into the epidermal layers of his Drosophila fly gene studying friend encoded the his friends wifes initials "EEE".

Then, remembering he had previously noticed the geeky skin art of other scientist friends, Zimmer bemused,

"have I bumped into the tip of a vast hidden iceberg, or do I just happen to know the few scientists with tattoos of their science"

That Covers It | The Tree of Life--carbon, glucose, light, DNA, and the golden rectangle. A tattoo by Kevin Riley. On the chest of a PhD student in molecular biology | Copyright Carl Zimmer