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Nose Jobs Change Female Mice into Sex Machines!

By Alex in Animal, Science & Tech on Aug 14, 2007 at 2:25 pm


When scientists performed “genetic nose jobs” on female mice, they were surprised to find that they’ve turned them critters into insatiable sex machines (i.e. behave like males)!

The new work of the Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute team, published in the journal Nature, indicates that defects in this organ, known as the vomeronasal organ, lead female mice to act like males, solicting them, mounting them and thrusting them while abandoning nesting and nursing.

"These results are flabbergasting," says Prof Catherine Dulac. "Nobody had imagined that a simple mutation like this could induce females to behave so thoroughly like males."

LinkThanks cuimhne!


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  1. Cuimhne
    Aug 14th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Male and females aren't so different after all... (it's all in the nose). Quite fascinating though! :p

  2. Nora
    Aug 14th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    LOl...so You have to _remove_ something from the mouse in order to make it think like a male?

    Poor mouse was nasally lobotomized. (guess that would be a nasalotomy.)

  3. L
    Aug 14th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    What was the point of this study? Humans don't even have that organ!

    Thank goodness.

  4. Chris
    Aug 15th, 2007 at 12:15 am

    I guess a lot of women will have something to trade if they want their hubby to pay for a nose job ;) ))

    and : *i.e. behave like males* LOL

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