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His fans know that he has an extra thumb on his right hand.
Mutations that disrupt Sonic hedgehog regulation such that some protein is made in the anterior of the limb bud cause the formation of an extra thumb.
Henry was born with an extra thumb on his right hand and a serious heart defect that would require surgery to fix.
In the town where she had grown up, her sort of intelligence was often put in the same category as a limp or an extra thumb, and people had been quick to point out the expected, accompanying drawbacks — her inability to run a sewing machine, or wrap a parcel neatly, or notice that her slip was showing.
Typically, with one copy of that gene out of commission, embryos make only half the normal amount of Gli3 protein and an extra thumb forms.
When scientists also knocked out just one of the enhancers in the same mice, the embryos again grew an extra thumb.
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They appear to have a sesamoid, an extra "toe" similar in placement to a giant panda's extra "thumb", that also helps in weight distribution.
Although not as famous as the panda's similar extra thumb, a heavy tool for grasping bamboo, the mole's sixth digit is an evolutionary curiosity.
We presented a sixth finger system composed of an extra robotic thumb attached to the left hand, that simulates a second thumb in that hand and has a force sensor in its tip; a thumb motion capture, that attaches to the right hand, and captures the movements and position of the tip of the thumb in that hand, to mirror its movements into the extra robotic thumb.
The giant panda's extra thumb is a famous example of evolution's inventiveness.
We then investigate how an extra robotic thumb, that works as a sixth finger and gives somatosensory feedback to the user, modifies the body schema, and also affecting the self-perception of existing limbs.
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