Word: sonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sonic, the Hedgehog Gene...
Next, Riddle said, researchers must demonstrate that Sonic hedgehog is necessary as well as sufficient for limb development...
...fact, according to Tabin, in research subsequent to the publishing of the paper, his lab has isolated the human Sonic hedgehog gene. He has also mapped the genes responsible for certain genetically-determined diseases in humans to the same place on the chromosome as Sonic hedgehog...
...Riddle claimed that he didn't like any of the choices. According to Riddle, a co-author of one of the three papers, he went home and inadvertently picked up a copy of Games magazine, only to see an advertisement for Sonic Hedgehog 2, the SEGA Genesis video game...
However, the dispute did not end there. According to Tabin, Philip W. Ingham, a senior scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the head of the third research team, did not like the name because in England Sonic is slang for "groovy" and "naming something Sonic made him sick." But he, too, eventually agreed to the name...