#495 - Pokémon In Our Bodies


In 2005, a cancer-causing gene was discovered and named "Pokémon" as a backronym of its full name, but The Pokémon Company threatened with legal action, and it was renamed "Zbtb7". However, there is a fast retinal protein in our eyes named "Pikachurin".

SOURCE 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbtb7
SOURCE 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin

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