Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
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Blog Post
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April 2, 2019, 1:44 p.m.
...resembled a hedgehog (Nusslein-Volhard and Wiechaus, 1980).
The mammalian hedgehog protein, sonic hedgehog (SHH...identified the hedgehog gene in Drosophila. They observed that flies with non-functional hedgehog exhibit abnormal... have meetings in rooms such as Groucho, Sonic Hedgehog, Sleeping Beauty, Cookie Monster, Spaghetti Squash...Lab from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute!
Sonic Hedgehog, an important regulator of embryonic development...largest conference room at Addgene is named Sonic Hedgehog but this is not a direct reference to the video... animal development.
To understand where sonic hedgehog got its name, we need to go back to 1980, when...Drosophila embryo. In flies with non-functional hedgehog, the denticles actually clump together forming...