News tagged with sexual preferences

Nordic countries grill Facebook on privacy

Data protection agencies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have quizzed social network giant Facebook on its management of users' private information, they said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Serotonin plays active role in the sexual preference of mice

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature by Yan Liu and Yun'ai Jiang at Beijing's National Institute of Biological Sciences, the connection between serotonin and sexual preference in mice is presented. Liu a ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Gene knockout makes female mice masculine

The mammalian fucose mutarotase enzyme is known to be involved in incorporating the sugar fucose into protein. Female mice that lack the fucose mutarotase (FucM) gene refuse to let males mount them, and will attempt copulation ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0