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Title: Mother Against Decapentaplegic - Gene or rock band?
Post by: thedoc on 14/09/2012 09:27:40

And finally, our gene of the month is Mothers Against Decapentaplegic - which sounds more like the name of a death metal band than something in the genome.
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/2229/)

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Title: Re: Mother Against Decapentaplegic - Gene or rock band?
Post by: chris on 17/09/2012 19:39:25

That has to be the craziest gene name I've ever come across; where do you find these things!!?