Tuesday, March 20, 2007

NF1 = Cancer or Awesome Sex?

After a great silence, I finally return with a self-congratulatory post.

As it turns out, flies which over express neurofibromin (the gene on which I work) have longer life spans, have more sex and produce more offspring per sexual encouter (greater fecundity, as they put it). Lose the gene, get cancer. Get more of the gene, act like a 19-year-old boy, again.

Oh, snap.

1 comment:

Dave said...

Oh, fecundity. Can you double-check the link? It didn't work for me...