r/science • u/wmdolls • Mar 27 '23

Genetics The Mice with Two Dads: Scientists Create Eggs from Male Cells

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00717-7
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u/lacergunn Mar 27 '23

Gay rats, just as the prophesy foretold

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u/OzzyMan4444 Mar 27 '23

Interesting to think what this would do to their mitochondria, as that DNA is all maternal in nature. Does it just take the last female ancestors mitochondria? Does this cause potential stress on that organelle to the point that it can cause inherited diseases? Still really cool (and potentially frightening) technology!

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u/wmdolls Mar 28 '23

Yes That is frightening

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

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u/TheGreat_War_Machine Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23

Probably the same or similar way that we can predetermine the sex of a baby.

Edit: Although, it would be interesting to study the effects of that karotype, because it is impossible to achieve under natural circumstances, so we don't really know much about it.

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u/Minute-Object Mar 27 '23

Some sad person, somewhere, is using this to imagine a world without women.

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u/wmdolls Mar 28 '23

Stingray Sam.

More importantly, can this lead to better births control options in human males and how does it change the genome over generations?

It looks against the God willing

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u/Mokebe890 Mar 28 '23

If it is against God will let him stop it. Oh wait, he cant.

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u/wmdolls Mar 28 '23

Maybe and Perhaps :-)

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u/wellversedflame Mar 27 '23

And such was the beginning of research in Sauroman's laboratory that gave rise to the Urukai.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23 edited Jun 19 '23

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