Drugs Turn Gay Flies Straight!
Posted by mikezillion at December 11th, 2007
According to an article at LiveScience.com, not only can fruit flies be induced to exhibit homosexual tendencies after genetic manipulation, but that tendency can also be turned on and off in a matter of hours with drugs: “In the new work, University of Illinois at Chicago researcher David
Featherstone and coworkers discovered a gene in fruit flies they call
“genderblind,” or GB. A mutation in GB turns flies bisexual.”
The implications for humans and other species are still under debate. But the first thing I did was run out and register the domain GBMutants.com. Any suggestions what I should put there?