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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. Great by vossman77 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great, now women will finally realize that men ARE truly useless and rid the planet of us.

  2. Re:it must be asked... by martyn+s · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Clue for idiot: there's no "NOT FUNNY" mod. So you were modded offtopic instead.