Simple technique changes sex of a mouse – and reveals the gender war that rages in all of usOne of the great dogmas of biology is that gender is fixed from birth, determined by the inheritance of certain genes on the X and Y sex chromosomes. But this simplistic idea has been exploded by the latest study, which demonstrated that fully-developed adult females can undergo a partial sex change following a genetic modification to a single gene.
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(Thank you, Gwen, for alerting me to this article.)
