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?
HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
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.
INSANITY SCIENTISTS CREATE MOTHERLS LAB MICE, ‘COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR GAY MEN TO HAVE CHILDREN’
"Then you might be gay! "Really, 's a bad ia to e terms like "gay" and "straight" when talkg about mice at all.
PUPS BORN OM TWO GAY MICE
"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.
2% of women and men, rpectively, intify as gay. Dpe the numbers, many people still nsir homosexual behavr to be an anomalo choice.
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. 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.
‘GAY’ MICE CAN MAKE BABI? — THE REALY BEHD A DISTURBG EXPERIMENT
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.
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” MICE CAN MAKE BABI?
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.
While there is no sgle “gay gene, ” there is overwhelmg evince of a blogil basis for sexual orientatn that is programmed to the bra before birth based on a mix of geics and prenatal ndns, none of which the fet choos. Rearch that gets anywhere close to searchg for a gay gene — even wh animals — has been highly ntroversial the U.
” (For the rerd, the male fli beme bisexual, not strictly gay. Liu and Jiang ce a study by Milton Waberg, which they say showed that “SSRIs hibed pulsive sexual behavurs homosexual and bisexual men”. But Waberg isn’t happy wh this trial tted the effects of SSRIs gay and bisexual men wh pulsive sexual behavurs.