Scientists Create Mice from Two Fathers

[T-Rexx]

Utilizing stem cell biology, scientists at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas have managed to create mice which are the offspring of two males. The scientists managed to induce cells from a male mouse fetus (XY) to create a line of male stem cells without a Y chromosome (XO). The XO cells were then injected into embryos to create eggs in female mice which lacked the usual two X chromosomes (XX). A female with XO eggs (in which all DNA had come from a male mouse) which mates with a normal male XY mouse could then produce XY offspring with the DNA from two males.

Mitochondrial DNA, which is extra-chromosomal, would remain that of the surrogate female mouse, of course.

Previous research has found ways to create mice without any fathers at all, as well as ways to create mice with two mothers.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/scienceusstemcellsresearch

 

[XLeatherX]

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Scottyboi]

Well this is certainly interesting, thank you for the post

 

[frankfrank]

If scientists created mice by using DNA from Brad Pitt and Montel Williams (yeah, those are two males), thee'd be mice running around with fully functioning human brains!



Maybe that's what Christine O'Donnell was talking about, LOL

 

[BrownBoi89]

This thread reminds me of something I read on Wikipedia a while ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_sperm

 

[FanofFiction]

I'm skeptical of this. I need to hear more.

 

[nate78]

..........

 

[metta]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjUQ7JQW9c[/ame]

 

[Nomenclature]

They still needed a female, though. That clearly doesn't count.

 

[freefall]

^Yup, what I thought too.

Even vertebrae animal cloning process needs a surrogate female animal.

 

[bulge]

Finally the end of sex wars. We will make a new treaty of Tordesillas between men and women and divide the world up so that men can live with men only and women with women only. Adam and Eve back in the closet. The return of paradise.

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa112999a.htm