Word: microsurgeons
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...remaining pronucleus to replicate, thus giving the cell a full complement of genes. Then the cell itself divides, and the resulting embryo is placed in the uterus of a female mouse to develop. Using this technique, Biologist Peter C. Hoppe of Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., and Swiss Microsurgeon Karl Illmensee have produced seven mice, all females. (Males cannot be produced by this method because the male and female pronuclei never merge, making it impossible for the male XY chromosome combination to form...
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