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Does having a short index finger mean you're gay? A new study comparing index and ring-finger lengths says this ratio indicates how much testosterone people were exposed to in the womb, which may influence sexual orientation. Dr. Marc Breedlove, the aptly named Berkeley psychologist who's searching for the anatomical basis of sexual preference, reports that lesbians tend to have substantially shorter index fingers, a trait more common among men than women. Really short index fingers on men don't mean they're gay or straight, the study says; it means they probably have lots of older brothers...
...musters its defenses. PPL scientists recently succeeded in finding the gene responsible for the sugar and knocking it out of the nucleus of a pig cell. Their next step would be to extract that nucleus, insert it into a hollowed-out pig ovum and insert the ovum into the womb of a host sow. The sugar-free piglet that was eventually born could then be cloned over and over as a source of safe transplant organs. "The idea is to arrive at the ideal animal and repeatedly copy it exactly as it is," says Dr. Mark Hardy, director of organ...
...menopause, eliminating any chance for future childbearing. Now researchers say it may be possible to preserve these women's fertility. A six-year study shows survival rates among those with early-stage ovarian cancer are about the same whether doctors take out all the reproductive organs or keep the womb and unaffected ovary--and fertility--intact...
...floor and kill you, would that be right?" asked the former State Department official and radio talk-show host. This was not multiple choice. Fortunately the class answered correctly, and Keyes, 49, said if you can't kill children in civics class, you can't kill them in the womb either. Keyes says he saw nothing inappropriate about his comments, and that he'd taught his daughter about abortion at "four or five." And another declaration: "The homosexual agenda is based on ideas that are incompatible with freedom...