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Title: Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
Post by: Shana A on July 22, 2011, 09:44:29 AM
Post by: Shana A on July 22, 2011, 09:44:29 AM
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/ (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.
Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/07/21/Researchers_Discover_Sex_Change_Gene/ (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.
Title: Re: Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
Post by: AbraCadabra on July 22, 2011, 09:51:05 AM
Post by: AbraCadabra on July 22, 2011, 09:51:05 AM
Now I truely wonder what that will mean?!
If being a mouse, of course I'd have the answer, or?
Axelle
If being a mouse, of course I'd have the answer, or?
Axelle
Title: Re: Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
Post by: Nemo on July 22, 2011, 10:58:39 AM
Post by: Nemo on July 22, 2011, 10:58:39 AM
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..
Title: Re: Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
Post by: ~RoadToTrista~ on July 22, 2011, 11:14:32 AM
Post by: ~RoadToTrista~ on July 22, 2011, 11:14:32 AM
Oooo, do the ovaries work?
Title: Re: Researchers Discover Sex-Change Gene
Post by: pebbles on July 23, 2011, 04:53:27 AM
Post by: pebbles on July 23, 2011, 04:53:27 AM
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on July 22, 2011, 11:14:32 AMno but they do produce estrogen.
Oooo, do the ovaries work?