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Fred Gage, a Common card
Fred "Rusty" Gage is an American geneticist known for his discovery of stem cells in the adult human brain.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Ranked #2,484 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Gage is a former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he holds the Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease and works in the Laboratory of Genetics.
- Gage concentrates on the adult central nervous system and the unexpected plasticity and adaptability that remains throughout the life of all mammals.
- His work may lead to methods of replacing brain tissue lost to stroke or Alzheimer's disease and repairing spinal cords damaged by trauma.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fred Gage article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Fred Gage
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fred Gage (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
