/ Macrophages Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /blog/immune-cells-drive-sex-reversal-zebrafish-and-perhaps-fertility-loss-women <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Female zebrafish (<em>Danio rerio</em>) have an unusual tendency: if their egg cells are damaged, they can turn into males. Bruce Draper, a professor in the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Florence Marlow, a professor at </span></span><span><span>the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai</span></span><span><span>, have discovered that immune cells called macrophages play a key role in this process.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> December 11, 2023 - 10:01am Andy Fell /blog/immune-cells-drive-sex-reversal-zebrafish-and-perhaps-fertility-loss-women