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posted by mrpg on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-touch-my-genitals dept.

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Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn't contain any genes, finds a new paper published in Science.

The study, led by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, could help explain disorders of sex development in humans, at least half of which have an unknown genetic cause.

Mammals will develop ovaries and become females unless the early sex organs have enough of a protein called SOX9 at a key stage in their development. SOX9 causes these organs to become testes, which then direct the rest of the embryo to become male.

Source: https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/science-news/2018/06/14/non-coding-dna-changes-the-genitals-youre-born-with/

Sex reversal following deletion of a single distal enhancer of Sox9 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9408) (DX)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @06:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @06:11PM (#702657)

    Yeah, its a BOT and simply craves the pleasures of human experience.

    Ok ok, enough with the name gimmick, clearly an incel craving the pleasures of human experience!

    Ok ok ok ok, enough with the incel jokes. Bot actually makes a decent point, much like transexuals why shouldn't a homosexual be allowed to choose a therapy to change themselves? I agree with that. However, given the cultural subtext I doubt BOT was going for a "freedom of choice" narrative and was likely making a more fundamentalist type of comment.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:58PM (#702715) Journal

    Yeah, look at his post history. This is either a Dominionist or, and this is really bizarre but weirdly common, a late 20s/early 30s type who got into Orthodox Christianity and the weirdo memeplex that seems to build up around it. He's also completely out of his depth when it comes to talking about what actually grounds his epistemology, as I've found out several times.

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:24PM

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:24PM (#702739) Journal

      The paper trail works both ways, meaningful objections should be recorded too. Couldn't care less if you prefer to shift attention towards the messenger, but that is the standard kind of response when somebody discusses homosexuality, see paper trails.

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