Gay mice babies

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0:00 researchers managed to create male and 0:02 female parented mice babies this is very 0:05 exciting news for all queer people but 0:07 it was bogged down by the complexity of 0:09 the science scientists put the nucleus 0:11 from a sperm from one father into an egg 0:14 from a donor mother and then fertilized 0:16 the egg with another father and they did 0:19 a similar procedure with two mothers 0:22 they produced healthy offspring with two 0:24 mothers but not with two fathers 0:26 the news clickbaited this as though men 0:29 would be obsolete but that's not the 0:31 truth of the experiment 0:33 there is nothing fundamentally different 0:35 between the issues that two men versus 0:37 two women would face there are things 0:39 called methyl groups that turn on and 0:41 off genes in dna and they are different 0:45 in eggs and sperm 0:47 normally when the eggs and sperm mix 0:49 together 0:50 the genes will be turned on and off in a 0:52 way that mixes together to form a proper 0:54 baby 0:55 but scientists had issues with both of 0:57 these not working with male male and 1:00 female female babies scientists managed 1:03 to tweak the right genes to make it so 1:05 that healthy female female offspring 1:07 could be produced but not healthy male 1:09 male offspring the issue is the same for 1:12 males and females it's just that the 1:15 female issue was resolved first by the 1:17 time any of this gets approved for 1:19 humans research will likely have been 1:21 able to figure out how to do this for 1:22 both gay couples and lesbian couples