Humanity renamed genes because of Excel
kegenaar
16 points
2 comments
August 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
horticulturist
Pretty sure this happens in every field. Opening any sufficiently detailed tabular file with Excel almost guarantees data loss.
baldeagle
To be fair, humanity named those genes in the first place. They are now just named more robustly