Gay mice
Animal Research
March 12, 2025
Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) issued expression today to proper misinformation circulating about “transgender mice” in research.
Recent claims about federally funded investigate on “transgender mice” are inaccurate and misleading. This study is not comparable to gender identity; instead, they are focused on studying biological and reproductive development. Some possess suggested the intended term was “transgenic mice,” but that is also incorrect in this context. Transgenic mice are used across many scientific fields—including reproductive biology—and are organisms that allow researchers to study how changes in their genes drive health and disease in humans and animals. Recent news does not directly goal transgenic organisms. Rather, it focuses on studies investigating organic hormonal and developmental processes.
To clarify, these mice are not “transgender” in any human or social context. Research in this field helps scientists understand how sex hormones function and their outcome when things move wrong, particularly in diseases and conditions like endometriosis, infertility, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. This work provides h
Same-Sex Mice Parents Grant Birth to Fit Brood
Baby-making science has crossed a brand-new threshold, at least in rodents. A team of scientists in China has managed to make a small number of apparently strong mouse pups from same-sex female parents. The researchers also generated offspring from two mouse dads—but those pups all died shortly after birth, underscoring the fact that the new technique still faces serious hurdles.
The team’s approach, which relies on stem cell science and CRISPR–Cas9 gene adjusting, is a “new way to generate offspring of queer mammals,” says senior author Qi Zhou, who works on stem cell and reproductive biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
If the process can be vastly improved, and if it works well in larger mammals, it may eventually offer aspire to human gay couples who desire to have kids that are biologically related to both parents. Yet that scenario remains distant, and may never become scientifically feasible at all. “The amount of perform that is necessary to convince us that doing this in humans will do no injure is enormous, and is very much ahead of us,” says Fyodor Urnov, deputy director o
This is the third post in a row branching off the subject of tea, which I will get back to. It has been nice mixing things up.
I've just ran across a really interesting summary of some social structure oriented experiments on mice by a researcher in the late 60s through the 70s, John Calhoun's rat and mice experiments related to the effects of overpopulation.
There's a lot to get through, and I have a number of comments on how I see it potentially relating to what we experience today, so I'll demand to keep this moving. I'll pass on a short summary of what I see as the overview, then cite a summary I ran across that offers a somewhat abbreviated and highly interpreted version, then comments on what doesn't seem right in that. Then on to comments about how I observe the mice and rat findings relating to current social trends, which play out in the most obvious fashion in social media use patterns and social groups.
That topic outline:
1. overview of the experiments (focusing mainly on one set of findings)
2. summary article
3. likely errors in that summary
4. key findings overview
5. links to modern trends, especially comparable to social media tr