It appears PON3 is the name of a new chromosome chemical

[TheChosenPony 278]

Pulls up after a quick search for "Pon3".

 

Encountered this gem while trying to look for music under an artist with this specific name.

 

Absolutely Fantastic.

 

 

[Icelandic Gopnitsa 30]

Its the chemical that causes people to be rad as fuk 

[Nightfall Gloam 18,231]

That is very interesting... Something to look into

[Luminance 2,181]

We at least know how DJ PON3 get her mad skills from!

[Taialin 217]

Hee! I would say that I'm surprised, but most genes and the proteins they encode are named pretty cryptically like that: with some three-letter descriptor followed by a number identifying how many proteins are in that class (in this case, the paraoxonase family, protein or gene 3). I worked with dozens of these guys about a year ago doing some epigenetic research, so I know way more of these than I really should. Especially if the scientists who discover them don't care to give them a nice name (case in point, the JAK kinase family, originally coined JAK to stand for "just another kinase"). 

 

But if those scientists do want to coin a name for proteins, you get gems like pikachurin, aerodactylus, sonic hedgehog, and robotnikin. (And no, I did not make any of those up.)

[BlueBrony 388]

considering that papers were published on this back in '03 and '04, I have to agree with @@Taialin, that this is an "accidentally pony" thing, but it is still fun to find!

[Tropical Melody 5,078]

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh ......