Scientists have created mice wh no blogil mother by turng sk cells om a male moe to an egg – potentially allowg gay male upl to have...
Contents:
- NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
- HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
- INSANITY SCIENTISTS CREATE MOTHERLS LAB MICE, ‘COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR GAY MEN TO HAVE CHILDREN’
- PUPS BORN OM TWO GAY MICE
- ‘GAY’ MICE CAN MAKE BABI? — THE REALY BEHD A DISTURBG EXPERIMENT
- “GAY” MICE CAN MAKE BABI?
NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
Here's how Amerins have tracked over recent s rponse to "In your view, is beg gay or lbian somethg a person is born wh, or due to factors such as upbrgg and environment? In the late 1990s, nversatn around a "gay gene" was very ntroversial. "Gay" seems like the wrong word here.
" If the mice were gay, they wouldn't have ntued to try to have sex wh femal, right? It's also probably a mistake to speculate that there's a lk humans between seroton levels and homosexualy, as Gawker's Seth Abramovch do. "Then you might be gay!
HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
"Really, 's a bad ia to e terms like "gay" and "straight" when talkg about mice at all. "This, and the wispread nature of homosexual behavur animals, supports the ia that sexual preference is more of a ntuum. )Yong go on to quote the Columbia profsor Milton Waberg: As Waberg says, the assumptn that there’s a clear le between heterosexual and homosexual behavur “is out of step wh the field of sexualy rearch.
INSANITY SCIENTISTS CREATE MOTHERLS LAB MICE, ‘COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR GAY MEN TO HAVE CHILDREN’
2% of women and men, rpectively, intify as gay.
Dpe the numbers, many people still nsir homosexual behavr to be an anomalo choice.
PUPS BORN OM TWO GAY MICE
However, blogists have documented homosexual behavr more than 450 speci, argug that same-sex behavr is not an unnatural choice, and may fact play a val role wh populatns.
‘GAY’ MICE CAN MAKE BABI? — THE REALY BEHD A DISTURBG EXPERIMENT
The hunt for ‘gay gen’.
The 2019 study is the latt a hunt for “gay gen” that began 1993, when Dean Hamer lked male homosexualy to a sectn of the X chromosome. As the ease and affordabily of genome sequencg creased, addnal gene ndidat have emerged wh potential lks to homosexual behavr.
So-lled genome-wi associatn studi intified a gene lled SLITRK6, which is active a bra regn lled the diencephalon that differs size between people who are homosexual or heterosexual. Wh multiple gene ndidat beg lked to homosexualy, seemed highly unlikely that a sgle “gay” gene exists.
“GAY” MICE CAN MAKE BABI?
In rats, manipulatn of hormon durg pregnancy produc offsprg that exhib homosexual behavr. Why do homosexual behavr exist?
Several hypoth have been advanced to expla how homosexualy n be beneficial perpetuatg faial gen.
Gay uncl and nts, for example, are “helpers the nt” that help raise other fay members’ children to nurture the fay tree. Another ia suggts that homosexualy is a “tra-off tra. ” For example, certa gen women help crease their fertily, but if the gen are exprsed a male, they predispose him toward homosexualy.