Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene

[Shana A]

Posted on Advocate.com July 21, 2011 08:10:00 PM ET
Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
By Diane Anderson-Minshall

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/07/21/Researchers_Discover_Sex_Change_Gene/

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences have discovered a gene that is required to maintain male sex throughout life.

The research team, led by David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the University of Minnesota's department of genetics, cell biology, and development, found that removing an important male development gene, called Dmrt1, causes male cells in mouse testes to become female cells. The findings were published today in the online edition of Nature.

[AbraCadabra]

Now I truely wonder what that will mean?!
If being a mouse, of course I'd have the answer, or?
Axelle

[Nemo]

Ooh, I wondered when they'd find the key to the other half of the puzzle - I heard about the one that turned ovaries into testes..

[~RoadToTrista~]

Oooo, do the ovaries work?

[pebbles]

Oooo, do the ovaries work?

no but they do produce estrogen.