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A Mouse With Two Mothers

Posted by timothy on from the limited-utility-setting-in dept.

jabberjaw writes "Both the BBC and Nature are reporting that scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture have used two sets of chromosomes belonging to a female mouse to create what are essentially fatherless mice. The process by which this was accomplished (parthenogenesis) does not naturally occur in mammals. The mouse used lacked a gene known as H19 which in turn activated the Igf2 which allowed this process to occur."

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  1. Re:Baby Jesus by disntrstd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a more probable answer... It never happened!

  2. Re:We don't need the men. . . by operagost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't think she'll be competing with Maya Angelou for Poet Laureate of the United States any time soon.

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  3. Re:Swell.. by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This has always puzzled me - if women are always right, then do lesbian couples have arguments? If they did, would the universe explode?

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  4. Re:Baby Jesus -- need a source for Y chromosome! by Fancia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Curse you, jelly jar! One of these days, I'll best you. One of these days...

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