Female Mouse Embryos Actively Remove Male Reproductive Systems

NIH researchers reveal novel insights into how sex-specific reproductive systems arise A protein called COUP-TFII determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive tract, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. The discovery, which appeared August 18 in the journal Science, changes the long-standing bel...
Source: NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - News - Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research