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...what really made the prospects of manipulating human sexuality seem more immediate and threatening is recent molecular genetic research by Dean Hamer and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute. In 1993 Hamer's group reported evidence that genes on the X chromosome predispose boys to become either gay or straight...
...genes haven't actually been identified yet, but if Hamer's findings are right, it won't be more than a few years until they are identified. And then it will be a simple matter to develop a blood test that could be applied to adults, to children and even to fetuses. Perhaps it will eventually be possible to change an embryo's "gay genes" into straight ones...
...Dean Hamer is concerned enough about these dangers that he wants to restrict the use of genetic tests for homosexuality. "We believe that it would be fundamentally unethical," he and his colleagues wrote in their 1993 paper, "to use such information to try to assess or alter a person's current or future sexual orientation." Hamer has talked of patenting the relevant DNA sequences, thus preventing the commercial development of blood tests...
...usually sponsor two literary and two scholarly events a year, including a dinner during commencement week," says Hamer...
...started putting on events before it was being brought up, but now [lesbian, gay and bisexual issues] are more common, so we don't do so much anymore," Hamer says...