Friday, March 16, 2012

Rejection Leads to Alcohol Consumption (in Flies)

Today I have some exciting news for my 5.6 faithful readers: scientists have shown that sexual rejection leads to drinking alcohol! They studied fruit flies (read the article here), but we can only assume a similar mechanism is at work in humans. The interesting thing is that flies that got to mate had little interest in booze. Does this mean sex prevents alcoholism? And can Toque McToque and I get a lucrative grant to study this?

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