"Puberty gene" named after Harry Potter by US & British researchers

[Lavender Brown]

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/11.13/01-puberty.html

:wtf:

[Cocoa]

1. I have a better one

the "hairy peter" gene.

[Endangered Specie]

5. hahaha lol!

[MrMonk]

2. I suspect a hoax

Stephanie Seminara and William Crowley discuss the train of proteins that allows the brain to regulate the gonads.

Everyone knows that gonads can't be regulated by anything, especially the brain.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. Something I don't get

"Seminara and other Harvard investigators searched for the gene for many years before identifying it in a Saudi family. Mutations in the gene have prevented many members of that family from undergoing puberty."

How does this family... er... perpetuate?

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Presumably it's failed to prevent many other members from doing so

Either that or binary fission :)