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A child student of mine, a die hard fan of Sonic the Hedgehog and also autistic, would be very excited to hear about this
Turns out that researchers get to name the proteins they discover and that the venn diagram of biochem researchers and nerds is just a circle.
This one is actually a big of a tragic coincidence. A lot of genes are first discovered in a certain type of fruit fly (drosophilia melanogaster), which are excellent for this because of the low amount of gene redundancy and high reproduction rate.
There’s a series of genes that cause the fruit fly to have little spikes in their body, making them look a bit like hedgehogs. One of those was jokingly called sonic.
The problem is that this gene is present in humans, too, and has since been linked to severe brain deformities. As you can imagine, telling people that their child has a severe brain defect because of the sonic hedgehog gene is kind of problematic (Which is why it’s now commonly only called SHH).
There seem to be newer naming conventions that should prevent this kind of issue in the future.
There’s an episode of Let’s Learn Everything about this fruit fly: Episode 78
idk I think it’s pretty pog personally but I can see the potential pain put upon parents presented with this perplexing appellation
All nerds are biochem researchers?
Oh, you’re right. I really robotniked this one up.
Turns out this is from a real study, and not just a meme lol.
Yeye
I found it in a telegram channel for “real science diagrams that look like shitposts”
Well, it is exactly what it says on the tin then. I was sure it was made up, lol.
Lemmy’s version is [email protected]
Are there no posts or are they not showing up?
For me, default sorting is top day, so if there have been no posts in the last 24h, it will show “no posts”. You should see posts if you change to a different sorting (e.g. new).
It’s not very active though
Nothing is showing up even for top of all time. Maybe they’re marked NSFW for some reason?
I think the whole community is marked nsfw, so that might prevent you from seeing the posts
That’d do it. I wonder why it’s marked NSFW?
Hm, some are, but I also see some posts that aren’t. Maybe some sort of federation issue then. Except I just noticed you’re on the same instance as the community… now I’m just confused.
Get ready for this study to disappear due to not confirming the “vaccines cause autism” hoax.
gotta go fast
– Me, when I’m in a social situation
I would like to have mine measured. But I don’t want anyone else to see the results.
I wonder if there’s a similar connection with Pikachurin?
