Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge:
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting  —  Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel  —  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …