Researchers from McGill University have identified a form of chemical signaling in mice to defend their offspring. The researchers found that proximity to pregnant and lactating female mice increased stress hormones in males ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2022
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Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the family's nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new study shows. Furthermore, these observations lead to the production of oxytocin ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2021
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A male mouse identifies the sex of an unfamiliar mouse because of hard-wired brain physiology, not previous experience, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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An international team of researchers has discovered that contrary to conventional views, a male mammal was found able to exert inadvertent gender bias ratios in his offspring. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings ...
A new study from Indiana University provides evidence in mice that males may play a positive role in the development of offspring's brains starting before pregnancy.
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2015
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Sensory cues from the opposite sex can influence how animals age, a University of Otago-led study has found.
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2024
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When you take the lab away, female mice are more likely to play, according to a new Cornell study.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2024
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Ultrasuperovulation is an advanced technique that significantly increases the number of oocytes produced by female mice. However, existing ultrasuperovulation techniques have a low fertilization rate, probably caused by the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2023
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Fertilization is the union of two cells: an egg and a sperm. Before the egg and the sperm fuse, an event known as the "acrosome reaction" needs to occur in the sperm. Now, a team from Osaka University has identified a protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 25, 2023
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Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new way of looking at sex-biased diseases that is rooted in evolutionary biology.
Evolution
Oct 20, 2022
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