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Science writer @NatGeo | Lover of rocks and rxns | Former @SmithsonianMag @AAASMassMedia | Tips: Maya.Wei-Haas@natgeo.com | She/her

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    1. Maya Wei-Haas, Ph.D.‏Verified account @WeiPoints 11 Oct 2018

      Birds do it, bees do it—even laboratory mice do it. But with science in the mix, actually creating new life may not always require a male and a female. My latest @NatGeo! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-gene-editing-crispr-mice-stem-cells/?no-cache …

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      Maya Wei-Haas, Ph.D.‏Verified account @WeiPoints 11 Oct 2018
      Replying to @Codetony6 @NatGeo

      Great question — female mice can only have female pups. Scientists think that they could theoretically make males, but that's a bit in the future. Pairs of males can have either female or male pups. But for this study, the researchers opted for only male children from the dads

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        1. @ktown26‏ @ktown26 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          Did the scientists give a timeline on when the mice will have legal rights?

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        1. Robin Curry‏ @RobinCu31458099 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          Oh I guess when you don't read the whole article, u get confused like me...thinking the mice were lesbians ahahahaha ahhhhhh

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        1. Lorne Riseley‏ @LorneRiseley 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          If scientists can create offspring without the genetic material from with 2 females, and this is later applicable to humans, does this potentially make the question of gender/sex irrelevant? And how does this redefine what it means to be human? Its very intriguing.

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        1. Glen Graham MSEd‏ @coachglen 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          Potential is there to “knock in” (add) the sry gene that determines male sex characteristics in therian mammals.

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        1. Mukta Mehta‏ @mukta_mehta 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          In India ,if boy not born than all credit goes to female

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        2. Peter Ellis‏ @pjie2 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          I'm genuinely surprised that the next generation were not just viable but fertile. How does that work? The whole point is that they've used CRISPR to delete enough genes that a female-derived cell can "fake" being a sperm (i.e. shut off everything that's paternally methylated).

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        3. Peter Ellis‏ @pjie2 12 Oct 2018
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          So the next generation of offpring (all female) will inherit (and then pass on) at least some of those deleted genes, and consequently have fertility problems.

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        1. Pietro  🇺🇸 🇮🇹‏ @ConstantRebel55 12 Oct 2018
          Replying to @WeiPoints @Codetony6 @NatGeo

          I wonder if one of the two human sex chromosomes appeared first in the evolutionary sequence or if they both evolved together simultaneously.

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