Profs Turn Worms Gay
By Mark Steer
The pinnacle of human achievement was reached last week as scientists announced that they had managed to genetically engineer homosexual worms. We can forget about solving global warming, cast our worries of asteroid impacts aside and simply bask in the glory of man’s technological wizardry.Researchers from the University of Utah ‘rewired’ the nerve cells of female nematode worms to make them attracted to female phermones as opposed to those of the males.
The team claim that this highlights the role of genetics in sexual attraction. “We cannot say what this means for human sexual orientation, but it raises the possibility that sexual preference is wired in the brain,” says project leader Erik Jorgensen making a forlorn attempt to flop himself into the ‘most pointless quote’ charts.
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Avert your eyes if easily offended. The GM worms make a dash for the female pheromones.
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Send your ideas of what to call a nematode sex site to [email protected]
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Title image: N; worms: James White/University of Utah
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