Guess what a student researcher named a gene after?

[Refractive Reflections]

I don't know if any of you have already heard of this (since it's old news), but I thought I would share some funny information. So guess what a researcher was doing to pass time away, and named an undiscovered gene after it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog)? :lol: And guess what the inhibitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog#Robotnikinin) to that pathway is named after?

Unfortunately, this was renamed (http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/05/bye-bye-sonic-hedgehog/). :P

There's also another protein name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin), and another gene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbtb7) named after some popular characters/franchises.

...Just thought I'd share how influential gaming can be in science. :lol:

[Cure]

How about you just tell us instead of making us click all over the goddamned internet?

[Netkeeper]

Just hover over them. :V

[Cure]

No hovering on a phone, homie.

[Peanut]

I guess I'll never know!

[snake]

I hovered over them. Some guy named a gene after Sonic and it was renamed to Robotnikin.


Mildly interesting.

[Cure]

Thank you, SNAKE.

[Refractive Reflections]

How about you just tell us instead of making us click all over the goddamned internet?

:lol::lol::lol: Why thank you, I didn't know you were that impatient to find out Cure. :P

It's technically not this:
I hovered over them. Some guy named a gene after Sonic and it was renamed to Robotnikin.

The sonic hedgehog gene is important for organ formation in vertebrates and the inhibitor for that pathway is known as Robotnikinin. But the official name "sonic hedgehog" was officially renamed in 2007.

The other two: are Pikachurin (a protein found in light-receptors for the retina); and the other briefly known as Pokemon (officially named Zbtb7), a gene that may act as a master switch for cancer. With this second situation, Nintendo was threatening legal action against the particular research center if they didn't not change it (since it was sharing the name with a cancer-causing gene), so the research center changed it to "Zbtb7".

I guess I'll never know!
That's okay, guess your interest didn't extend that far enough in the first place. :P

[Peanut]

I browse on a phone almost exclusively. Following links is enough of a pain in the ass to make me not bother with them.

[TheCanadiandrome]

this is why i despise guessing games! never amounts to jack lol