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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:42 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:58 pm
Nah, Sonic had a gene named after him. The gist of the article is that mutations in the Sonic hedgehog gene can lead to very negative results in a developing fetus, since it's so important to the development of the brain. The name of the actual disease seems to be "Holoprosencphaly (HPE) [which] is a congenital malformation of the head that results from the failure of the forebrain to divide properly into the mature regions of the brain." [quoted from the article]
I'm afraid that's all I could get out of it, though, because I'm not a medical/biological science major. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:48 am
If Sonic's a disease, many of us have at least mild colds...
But seriously, I remember hearing about that the other year.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:43 am
Back in my first year at university, a friend of mine doing biology and physics pointed this out to me. I noted that there wasn't a Mario gene listed in the textbook smile
DW
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Warnersister Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:16 am
Yes, it's a gene.
That story's been doing the rounds since I first got online seven years ago - it's still not all that well known, though.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:07 am
Discovered it in 1997, didn't they?
Oh, and Nuala- did you get my PM?
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:14 am
well, well... Now I learnt about a new gene I have never heard of.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:53 am
Xagarath Ankor Discovered it in 1997, didn't they? 1997 or 1998. I'll have to look it up.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:38 pm
Why would they name it after Sonic?
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:40 am
I've heard this fact pop up on occation... Shame it has to be something bad o@
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