A team of researchers led by Professor Joseph Heitman has discovered procreation between genetically identical fungi Cryptococcus neoformans can result in genetic changes and diversity in their ...

Some unisexual invertebrates engage in low levels of sex with related sexual species, and this raises the possibility that unisexual vertebrates have a similar capability. In this study, I compared ...

C. neoformans has two mating types, a and α, although more than 99% of all isolates are of the α-type. When the hypersexual XL280α strain is grown on mating-inducing media, it frequently reproduces by ...

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School claim the stem cell line created by Korea's disgraced veterinarian Hwang Woo-suk was generated via unisexual reproduction, not cloning. The team, ...

A team of scientists created a bi-paternal mouse through targeted imprinting gene edits in embryonic stem cells. This demonstrates the potential for overcoming barriers to unisexual mammalian ...

A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse—a mouse with two male parents—that lived until adulthood. Their results, publishing ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

As detailed in a study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, scientists achieved this feat of same-sex murine parentage by using CRISPR techniques to rein in rogue genes that undergo a troublesome ...