New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and signals that drive this process. The findings offer important insights into ...

Add a new ingredient to the sugar, spice and everything nice needed to make girls. A protein called COUP-TFII is necessary to eliminate male reproductive tissue from female mouse embryos, researchers ...

Going against the general consensus, scientists have unveiled an unexpected mechanism for sexual differentiation of critical reproductive structures during embryonic development. Every mammalian ...

To evaluate the effects of FGF-3 expression in the prostate and male reproductive tract, we employed a bitransgenic system to target FGF-3 to these organs. We present a first study that ectopic FGF-3 ...

Yao's team compared normal (wild type) and mutant embryonic development of the Wolffian duct (purple duct in the images) in the mouse. At day 15.5, no notable differences are visible, but two days ...

To identify cues that induce differentiation of the ureteric bud cell lineage in normal development, the researchers carried out gene expression array analyses of Wolffian duct maturation (embryonic ...