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Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time. A team based in Japan used a CRISPR-based approach to remove the Y chromosome from male cells and create female clones of male mice. “No one has done this before,” says Monika Ward, a reproductive biologist at the University of Hawaii, who was not involved in the research. The feat could change the way scientists think about reproduction, says Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamanashi, who co-led the work. The findings were published in a preprint paper shared on bioRxiv earlier this month, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. “There’s a fixed concept in our scientific field that we need both females and males for reproduction,” says Ishiuchi. “I think we could change this concept.” He and his colleague Shogo Matoba of the Riken BioResource Research Center in Ibaraki also hope their technique could help rescue endangered speci...