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title: "Timeline photos "Mice with two fathers have been born—and have…"
date: 2025-01-29
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "Mice with two fathers have been born—and have…

*January 29, 2025 · Facebook*

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\"Mice with two fathers have been born---and have survived to adulthood---following a complex set of experiments by a team in China.\
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Zhi-Kun Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues used CRISPR to create the mice, using a novel approach to target genes that normally need to be inherited from both male and female parents. They hope to use the same approach to create primates with two dads. \"
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