James Biedler (left), a research scientist in Zhijian Tu’s lab; Azadeh Aryan (middle), the first author on the paper and a research scientist in Zhijian Tu’s lab; and Maria Sharakhova (right), an ...

Male-to-female (MTF) hormone therapy, or estrogen hormone therapy, is a treatment that some people may receive in order to induce “feminine” physical traits and suppress “masculine” ones. This may ...

A screen of mouse stem cells that exploits their propensity to gain or lose chromosomes in cell culture has been used to convert male XY to female XX cells. Subsequent differentiation generates ...

Researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed for male mosquito flight. Virginia Tech researchers ...