"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.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:32 am
You’ve been tagged with the Animal Meme.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:46 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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September 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I know Matthew. It is indeed genuine and not a Photoshop job.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I’ve tried scrubbing (with soap). It will not come off. Whether that means it’s genuine or not, I don’t know.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
That is so cool!!!! It really makes me want on.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
That’s a good one.
October 6th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Bravo! You have invented a new field: Tattoo informatics.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:46 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.
May 27th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I’m with ben H, i can’t find any originals for this DNA illustration. I see you have a big ass poster of it apparently. where can i get one? i wan’t to get one as well.