Mike Ryan

San Francisco based Code Wrangler.

Interactive Television specialist, coder guy with an M.B.A. Dog lover, water polo player, one time triathlete (more coming), cool enough to drink rosé in public but not as cool as Zed. Mike is the founder and CEO of A Different Engine.

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• Jun
  23
  Fun with Science
  by mike at 1:09pm

  Today I was listening to Science Friday on NPR and they were having a discussion about embryonics and restoring neural pathways to cure paralysis. Suddenly the guest was talking about proteins and growth agents needed and one was called “Sonic Hedgehog”

  Sonic Hedgehog??? what is that?

  I was utterly convinced that I either misheard or the guest was pulling one over the unsuspecting audience. But apparently not.   There seems to be a class of genes called “hedgehog” genes found in fruit fly embryoes, which are covered in pointy bumps.   In mammals there are three equivalents the desert hedgehog, the indian hedgehog and the sonic hedgehog.

  Who knew geneticists were so silly?

  BTW there’s also the tiggywingkle hedgehog in zebrafish.

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    This be a test
    mike July 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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    This could be another test
    mike July 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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    This will work dammit!
    Tester McTesty August 4th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

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