GRGR(7): Melanocytes in the news

[Jeremy Osner]

On vacation last week, I was leafing through my hotel room's
few-months-old copy of Time Magazine (June 99?) when I found an article
entitled "Tanning Bonus". I started reading and wowee! Gavin Trefoil,
Ned Pointsman and the whole gang down at the "White Visitation" walked
off the page!

It seems a synthetic form of the hormone Alpha MSH has been developed,
under the name Melanotan, which stimulates rapid pigmentation -->
negrification without the attendant dangers of skin cancer. The "Bonus"?
It also stimulated hard-ons in the all-male volunteer group of subjects!

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"Write for those who can read,
 fart for those who can only smell."

--Stirling Newberry