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On the subject of defensins
After warning a friend about the duck-billed platypus's venom I fell down the Wikipedia hole because of the related topic 'defensins'.  That leads to the most interesting blurb I've read all morning.:

Human genome contains theta-defensin genes, but they have a premature stop codon, hampering their expression. An artificial human theta-defensin,^[4] retrocyclin, was created by `fixing' the pseudogene, and it was shown to be effective against HIV^[5] and other viruses, including herpes simplex virus and influenza A. They act primarily by preventing these viruses from entering their target cells.

My incredibly naive and maintenance-coding-inflected interpretation of that is "We found some commented out code from the last developer that seems like it's a pretty good bugfix.  Let's uncomment it!".  Replace the last developer with God or Darwin or negative entropy or Eris or whatever and leave me out of it.  This isn't that kind of blog entry :)

P.S.:  Don't harass the full-grown, bull platypus!