Genetics changes departments to science.

[Mordent]

In my opinion, medical research absolutely belongs in medbay; it means people have a reason to go there outside of "I attacked a monkey and it beat my head in with a toolbox" and "I harmbattoned a traitor to death and his microbomb implant blew my arms off".

Research already has plenty of cool toys to play with (telescience, artlab, toxins, chemistry) without getting another.

If the argument is "geneticists just sit in their lab all round" the problem is with that rather than with the physical location of the department.