Researchers from Heidelberg and London decode genetic programmes that underlie the development of sex-specific characteristics of mammalian organs
The development of sex-specific characteristics is frequently seen in mammals. These characteristics stem from the activation of corresponding genetic programmes that until now have been largely undescribed by the scientific community. An international research team from the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and The Francis Crick Institute in London has, for the first time, decoded the programmes that control the sex-specific development of major organs in selected mammals - humans, mice, rats, rabbits, and opossums. ...
