Turn On and Off Your Homosexuality

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Biotechnology - 2008

Turn On and Off Your Homosexuality

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3997085&page=1
Scanned by: Marisa Vitols 10 months ago

Is there a switch that turns you gay? That's the startling question raised by a recent experiment in which scientists said they were able to turn on and off homosexual behavior in fruit flies. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago said they discovered what they call a "gender blind gene," or GB, in male fruit flies. A mutation in this GB gene spurred the males flies to start courting other males, as well as females. When researchers strengthened neural synapses in the brain, the male flies were attracted, rather than repulsed, by the smell of other male flies. And because fruit flies have similar genetic makeup to humans, the implications are quite evident...

Type: Discovery | Also: Health & Medicine |

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