The first large-scale cellular map of gonadal developmental in both sexes has been created by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as part of the Human Cell Atlas initiative to map all cell ...

I teach a university course called Hormones and Behaviour. What surprises students is that biological sex is not produced by ...

Early in human development, during the first trimester of gestation, a fetus may have XX or XY chromosomes that indicate its sex. Yet at this stage a mass of cells known as the bipotential gonad that ...

The deletion of the Wt1 gene during the early stages of the embryonic reproductive organ formation leads to differences in sex development in adult mice, according to an article published in the ...

In a new study published in Water Biology and Security, scientists from the Ocean University of China have constructed the first detailed cell map of the gonad in the hermaphroditic bay scallop ...