[QUOTE="JoeTheMC84, post: 7739430, member: 4420018"
Raene's whole story line might disagree with this. Her story would be solved the moment she escaped her father's reach. Yet we clearly see Raene taking some kind of hormone replacement therapy and not gene, let alone whole chromosome, alteration therapy. Modifying existing genes within existing chromosomes is not the same as transforming a chromosome entirely. It's like equating changing a tire on a FORD SUV to even another brand of tire to replacing the whole engine with an engine from a Chevy Impala. Theoretically it is possible, but it would be exponentially more difficult and cause too many issues to be worth the effort. Changing an X into a Y or a Y into an X isn't just like shifting a little DNA priority about.
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"Parthenogenesis happens when an embryo develops from an unfertilized egg, but sexual reproduction in mammals requires both male and female DNA. This defied it.
“In mammals, parthenogenesis is limited because of problems arising from genomic imprinting,” the researchers said in a study recently published in PNAS, adding that “parthenogenesis can be achieved by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple critical imprinting control regions.”
Parthenogenesis does not happen naturally in mammals, and previous attempts ran into DNA glitches. Because mammalian conception needs genes that can only come from a male parent, the research team solved that by editing certain female genes with CRISPR until they were the same as if they had come from a male. They repeated the process with several eggs. These were then implanted into the female’s uterus and allowed to grow, and they went from embryonic to fetal stages to actual, living offspring, one of which was eventually able to produce its own offspring."
was really surprised to come across this above breakthrough. I am not surprised if my recent search on google of deriving offspring from only female parents had made it a target in my mobile google feed.
They don't mention the sex of these offspring though. And like how they mention CRISPR editing is delicate as it can spawn unwanted mutations, Raene taking hormone replacement instead of gene editing therapy mimicks what we know about it in real life with current medical knowledge.
