> One of the weirder journal articles I read was about this one group taking fibroblasts from XX and XO (Turner's syndrome) females and XY cells from a male and de-differentiating them into induced pluripotent stem cells. They then re-differentiated the cells into germ cells. Sure, that's not controversial just yet, but then they decided to put the XX female germ cells into a teste. The female germ cells (XX and XO) and the male XY cells all differentiated into cells that could succesfully undergo meiosis. And these cells, could terminally become sperm. That means an XX skin cell could be induced to become a sperm and possibly fertilize an egg from another woman. Of course all offspring would be XX female. This process totally bypasses males. Берём кожные клетки женщины, делаем из них стволовые клетки, из стволовых клеток — сперму, оплодотворяем яйцеклетки другой женщины. Феминистки торжествуют. (В комментах пишут, что Nature scientific reports так себе источник и исследованиям оттуда не стоит особо доверять, впрочем.)

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