Researchers already know that problems in certain parts of the brain will cause people to be sexually attracted to children. And now they’re finding other differences in the hope of creating a cure for pedophilia. I’m of the opinion, however, that there’s a big difference between being attracted to a child and acting on that [...]

“One fundamental premise in social debates has been that homosexuality is unnatural. This premise is wrong. Homosexuality is both common and highly essential in the lives of a number of species,” explains Petter Boeckman, who is the academic advisor for the “Against Nature’s Order?” exhibition at the Norwegian Natural History Museum of the University of [...]

A recent article in Science News (reg req’d) summarizes several areas of medical research in which PDE-5 inhibitors are being used to treat problems relating to poor blood circulation. PDE-5 (phosphodiesterase-5) is an enzyme that causes blood vessels to constrict, thus reducing flow. Viagra and other drugs such as Cialis increase blood flow to a [...]

IMBA’s Barry J. Dickson shows that a single gene is sufficient to produce alternatively male or female sexual behaviour in fruit flies. The findings are published [ed: full text available] as a cover story in “Cell” on June 3rd, 2005.
“We have shown that a single gene in the fruit fly specifies essentially all aspects of [...]