{"id":2065,"date":"2009-03-31T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2009-04-03T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T02:56:46","slug":"save-the-fastest-running-gene-in-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/31\/save-the-fastest-running-gene-in-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the fastest running gene in the galaxy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you delight in advance at the possibility of one day being diagnosed with an incurable disease linked to a gene named after the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(character)\">most famous blue hedgehog<\/a>, feel free to circulate the following petition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDear fellows at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genenames.org\/\">HUGO Gene Nomenclature Guidelines Committee<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>It has recently come to my attention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genenames.org\/cgi-bin\/hgnc_hot_topic.pl\">you have decided<\/a> to do away with names deemed &#8220;inappropriate or offensive&#8221; found in the existing international gene nomenclature. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more: I always thought that the officially registered name for gene <i>kill-all-the-Jews-and-drink-their-blood<\/i> was a bit politicised for a scientific setting.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you do, however, keep your hands off gene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genenames.org\/data\/hgnc_data.php?hgnc_id=HGNC:10848\"><b>SHH<\/b><\/a>, otherwise officially known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/UniGene\/clust.cgi?ORG=Bt&#038;CID=13121\"><i><strong>sonic hedgehog<\/strong> homolog (Drosophila)<\/i><\/a> gene. We like it the way it is (blue, spiky and running very fast). Beside, what better way to break the news of some potentially fatal gene mutation disease to a kid, than by introducing a beloved computer game mascot! <\/p>\n<p>PS: and for chrissake, drop the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genenames.org\/cgi-bin\/hgnc_hot_topic.pl\">Comic Sans font<\/a>: it makes your world-class gene database website look like it was coded by a 1st year CS student in 1991 (yes, I know: it probably was).<\/p>\n<p>Love,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you delight in advance at the possibility of one day being diagnosed with an incurable disease linked to a gene named after the world&#8217;s most famous blue hedgehog, feel free to circulate the following petition: Dear fellows at the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Guidelines Committee, It has recently come to my attention that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-info","category-procrastination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}