Technorati Tags: Hilarious Journal Articles, Redheads, Pain, MelanocortinFor reasons that have yet to be understood, women with red hair appear to be more resistant to pain compared to women with other colors of hair, and men, a scientist said yesterday...
Work on red hair and pain was originally carried out by Professor Jeffrey Mogil at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He identified a mutant version of a gene called melanocortin-1 (Mc1r), which is linked to ginger hair and fair skin, gives women a higher pain threshold, but does not appear to have the same effect on men...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Hilarious Journal Articles Part 13
From DNC: