Mouse produced from 2 males

[oaktree]

The mice, developed at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, contain no maternal [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]DNA[/COLOR][/COLOR]. Instead, their genomes are made up of contributions from two male mice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101213/sc_livescience/mousebabyihavetwodaddies

I found this to be very interesting and the potential to maybe extend species that are near extinction, or possible food source.

 

[Empty Hands]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101213/sc_livescience/mousebabyihavetwodaddies

I found this to be very interesting and the potential to maybe extend species that are near extinction, or possible food source.

Only if 2 males were the last of the species. The old fashioned way is quicker, easier and more reliable.

 

[Big Don]

Except, they didn't really create life from two males with no female involvement...

The researchers took these X-only (or "XO") cells and injected them into normal mouse embryos, which they then implanted in a surrogate mother mouse. The resulting baby mice were chimeras, or organisms with several distinct populations of cells. About half of the mice were female chimeras with some XX cells (which came from the normal embryo) and some XO cells, which contained DNA from Father No. 1.
When the female chimeras reached adulthood, the researchers mated them with regular male mice. Some of the females' egg cells derived from the XO cells. Those cells contained DNA from Father No. 1 only, so when the female chimeras mated with another male - Father No. 2 - some of the offspring thus had an X chromosome from Father No. 1 and either an X or Y chromosome from Father No. 2.

 

[oaktree]

Only if 2 males were the last of the species. The old fashioned way is quicker, easier and more reliable.

More fun too.