Beachy has turned normal prostate cells cancerous with a single mutation in Sonic hedgehog.
If Sonic hedgehog is mutated when a mouse is growing its paws, the animal won't grow digits.
Its researchers are now shooting sonic hedgehog directly into the brains of mice, to see what happens.
Even if sonic hedgehog cannot come to the rescue, another molecule might.
Mutations of Sonic hedgehog in people may result in babies with a single eye or a hole in the center of their head.
In mammals, the most important may be the Sonic hedgehog gene, named after the Sega videogame character by scientists in the Harvard laboratory of Clifford Tabin in 1993.
But Beachy theorized it is needed to make repairs in parts of the body that undergo constant regeneration, as in chronic acid reflux, where Sonic hedgehog works overtime to reline the throat.
Cyclopamine, it turns out, blocks the function of a gene called Sonic hedgehog that is essential for embryonic development but also plays a lead role in causing deadly cancers of the pancreas, skin, prostate and esophagus.
My cousins are glued to their iPad and have never even heard of Sonic the Hedgehog.
He worked with Sega on Sonic the Hedgehog, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, lead engineer of the PS4.
It sported fast cars, early 3D computer renderings, kittens, tigers playing football, space ships, dragons, rainbows, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Ghostbusters.
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When I was eight, I was busy staring at a console playing rather hard Sonic the Hedgehog or Super Mario levels, but now?
In listening to her, it becomes evident that she has true passion from Sonic The Hedgehog to Sega to Tetris to Mortal Kombat to Journey.
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One of the Tegra 3 games on display at Mobile World Congress is Sega's "Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2, " which will be released in May.
After posting a net loss for year ending Mar. 31 on weak demand, Sega Sammy is forecasting a return to profit this year, helped by the popularity of a pachinko machine featuring manga character Hokuto Ken and the release of a new Sonic the Hedgehog videogame.
Damage to juvenile attention-spans caused by such game stars as Sonic, a hyperactive blue hedgehog, and the pneumatic Lara Croft, does not fully explain Lego's difficulties, however.
"Sonic at the Olympic Games" features the spiky-haired hedgehog racing in track-and-field events.
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