# Summary of IRC Log from #hplusroadmap (June 14, 2015)

* A user asked whether women with two different photorhodopsin genes can actually perceive more colors or if the visual information gets processed uniformly in the brain, raising an interesting question about genetic variations in sensory perception.

* Heath shared news about the death of Austen Heinz, founder of Cambrian Genomics (a DNA custom printing company), who had committed suicide at age 31, representing a loss to the synthetic biology community.

* A paper on "Syringe-injectable electronics" was shared from Harvard's Charles Lieber lab, demonstrating advances in minimally invasive neural interfaces that could be delivered via injection.

* A link to the Molecular Programming Project (molecular-programming.org) was shared, which focuses on programming information-bearing molecules like DNA to create synthetic molecular systems.

* A discussion of heritability and the breeder's equation occurred, with a user sharing a link to West Hunter blog that examines why selective breeding has limitations, with another user noting this explains "why eugenics doesn't work" and why specialized dog breeds revert to baseline forms after generations in the wild.

* A link was shared to a paper on "Evaluating big deal journal bundles" from PNAS, likely related to academic publishing models and access to scientific literature.