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Games Making Inroads into Medicine

Started by July 01, 2015 03:04 AM
-1 comments, last by shuma-gorath 9 years, 2 months ago

So, today I was "researching" cancer and I found something most fascinating. As I was reading. I saw the word "hedgehog." Soon after I found the word "sonic." At this point, I figured someone was trolling the medical-research site. At this point, I had to go to wiki. What do I find? An article on the Sonic hedgehog protein. Curious about the origin, I found this titillating tidbit:

The name was devised by Dr. Robert Riddle, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the Tabin Lab, after he saw a Sonic comic his daughter had brought from England.

But wait, there's more. Turns out that there is an inhibitor for this protein called "Robotnikinin."

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This discovery made my day.

So, do you know any similar links between games and medicine?

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