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  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
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"Study suggests our organs may have their own sexual identity"

Medical Research Council

A study, published today in the journal Nature, suggests that the stem cells that make up our organs ‘know’ whether they are ‘male’ or ‘female’, and that this sexual identity could influence how they grow and behave.

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/news/browse/study-suggests-our-organs-may-have-their-own-sexual-identity/