Ovaries must suppress their inner male
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that the ovaries of mice can be reprogrammed into testes (minus the sperm) by silencing a single gene.