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Title: Sex redefined
Post by: stephaniec on November 23, 2015, 03:06:09 PM
Sex redefined

http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943

Nature/By Claire Ainsworth 18 February 2015

"particularly awkward conversation about sex.

A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia to hear the results of an amniocentesis test to screen her baby's chromosomes for abnormalities. The baby was fine — but follow-up tests had revealed something astonishing about the mother. Her body was built of cells from two individuals, probably from twin embryos that had merged in her own mother's womb. And there was more. One set of cells carried two X chromosomes, the complement that typically makes a person female; the other had an X and a Y. Halfway through her fifth decade and pregnant with her third child, the woman learned for the first time that a large part of her body was chromosomally male1. "That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis," says James."
Title: Re: Sex redefined
Post by: Ely-chan on January 29, 2016, 08:35:22 PM
Hi!!!
Wow, it's really sound like science fiction.... ::)
I only think how she feel with that, but the baby is fine and it's the most important  :D

Bye!!!