Scientists isolate gene that makes scientists work too hard

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It took a couple of centuries ever since science has become a part of modern life, revolutionising the world in so many manners. Now a group of scientists from the USA has come with the answer to the question, why do scientists always stay the course?

“We went through endless checks and probes, terabytes of chemical data, until we came to this one gene that we named Galileo-no-more that apparently contains the answer to it all”, Says Dave Schumacher, a head scientist in the American group which announced earlier this week the discovery. “Now we want to understand the inner algorithm of Galileo and perhaps sometime in the future to manipulate some of its rules, like a 10 hours working shift, a sense of deep failure when results are not coming out as expected, or even the urge to write grant requests on the expense of a good night sleep.”

The research will be published in the coming issue of “Scientists know better” and Dave will be the host of “Smarter”, a special TV show to be broadcast this weekend on Public TV.