Everything about Hex

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: HexA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hex-Mesh Generation and Processing: A SurveyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Winnie the WitchThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Hex: a homeobox gene revealing peri-implantation asymmetry in the mouse embryo and an early transient marker of endothelial cell precursorsCited 456 times
5. Go sideways: Witch (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: GridA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Hex: a homeobox gene revealing peri-implantation asymmetry in the mouse embryo and an early transient marker of endothelial cell precursors

  P. Q. Thomas, A. Brown, R. S. P. Beddington · 1998 · Development · 456 citations

• γ‐VINYL GABA (4‐amino‐hex‐5‐enoic acid), A NEW SELECTIVE IRREVERSIBLE INHIBITOR OF GABA‐T: EFFECTS ON BRAIN GABA METABOLISM IN MICE1

  M. J. Jung, B. Lippert, B. W. Metcalf · 1977 · Journal of Neurochemistry · 422 citations

• The homeobox gene Hex is required in definitive endodermal tissues for normal forebrain, liver and thyroid formation

  Juan Pedro Martinez Barbera, Melanie Clements, Paul Thomas · 2000 · Development · 407 citations

• 4‐Amino‐hex‐5‐enoic Acid, a Selective Catalytic Inhibitor of 4‐Aminobutyric‐Acid Aminotransferase in Mammalian Brain

  Bruce LIPPERT, Brian W. METCALF, Michel J. JUNG · 1977 · European Journal of Biochemistry · 338 citations

• Hex homeobox gene controls the transition of the endoderm to a pseudostratified, cell emergent epithelium for liver bud development

  Roque Bort, Massimo Signore, Kimberly Tremblay · 2006 · Developmental Biology · 265 citations

• Unsaturated carbohydrates. Part IX. Synthesis of 2,3-dideoxy-α- D -erythro-hex-2-enopyranosides from tri-O-acetyl- D -glucal

  R. J. Ferrier, N. Prasad · 1969 · J. Chem. Soc. C · 258 citations

• The selective trimerization of ethylene to hex-1-ene

  John R. Briggs · 1989 · Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications · 251 citations

• Heat exchanger/reactors (HEX reactors): Concepts, technologies: State-of-the-art

  Z. Anxionnaz, M. Cabassud, C. Gourdon · 2008 · Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification · 242 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hex-Mesh Generation and Processing: A Survey

  Nico Pietroni, Marcel Campen, Alla Sheffer · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 82 citations

• Microglia–neuron crosstalk through Hex–GM2–MGL2 maintains brain homeostasis

  Maximilian Frosch, Takashi Shimizu, Emile Wogram · 2025 · Nature · 56 citations

• FAST-Hex—A Morphing Hexarotor: Design, Mechanical Implementation, Control and Experimental Validation

  Markus Ryll, Davide Bicego, Mattia Giurato · 2022 · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 51 citations

• Creating Entangled Logical Qubits in the Heavy-Hex Lattice with Topological Codes

  Bence Hetényi, James R. Wootton · 2024 · PRX Quantum · 38 citations

• Superior energy absorption performance of layered aux-hex honeycomb filled tubes

  Weizhu Yang, Sichen Dong, Xidian Zhu · 2022 · International Journal of Mechanical Sciences · 36 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Winnie the WitchValerie Thomas · 1987
• Der satanarchäolygenialkohöllische WunschpunschMichael Ende · 1989
• Which witch?Eva Ibbotson · 1979
• Witches, midwives, and nursesBarbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English · 1971
• Winnie's Haunted HouseValerie Thomas · 2012
• Winnie's Flying Carpet (Winnie the Witch)Valerie Thomas · 1600
• Spooksville - The Deadly PastChristopher Pike · 1996
• Routledge History of WitchcraftJohannes Dillinger · 2019

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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