Genetics changes departments to science.

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Moving genetics to research changes nothing aside from removing two people with medical access and bloating the research wing even more. It's already weird how medical's access is segmented, while research's isn't.

If we have a problem with geneticists huddling in front of their consoles all round then changing how genetics works is all you got.

It's less "Get geneticists to do things" and more "place them in a place that makes more sense for what they do".
Also gives the Research director a few more people to work with.  Also.

Moving genetics to research changes nothing aside from removing two people with medical access and bloating the research wing even more.

(I know some map editing would need to be done.  I'd like to focus on the basic concept for now.)

donut 2 already has this which i think is interesting

It’s Pathology in the research wing/sat of Donut 2, not genetics. Genetics isn’t part of medical proper though, they have their own tiny department slightly down the hallway.

If genetics was shifted to research, would ‘geneticists’ as a job still exist or would they just be scientists? Scientists are already a pretty highly contested job most of the time, I feel like this might exacerbate the issue.

Also geneticists haven’t been in charge of cloning for a long time, ever since the cloner was moved out of genetics and into medbay proper.

I was thinking just moving genetics to the science department as simple as possible.  The only real access change I would think of is Geneticists don't have medical access and have basic science access (you know, what security has).  Scientists would just have a room they can't get into without permission or breaking in, and the research director and medical director's access would be changed accordingly.
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I know geneticists technically don't have cloning in their job description, but they're pretty much always there.  Once someone gets scanned, they're the most convenient to go over, check for a name, and clone if they can, considering literally the rest of medical staff can easily be too busy doing something else.  Not to mention down time in genetics is pretty normal, so even if they don't do it right away, they can just wait for a convenient time to do it. So it's kind of annoying when I keep spinning their chairs to the cloner and their reaction is to close the chairs.

I presume it's the only reason they're part of Medical and have a medical PDA at this point.