Male and female mouse brains differ in important ways, according to a new study led by Stanford Medicine investigators.
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2022
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Female fruit flies can feel when a sexual partner is a good fit. Scientists have long known that proteins in a male fly's ejaculate make female flies temporarily lose interest in other partners. It's a trick male flies use ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2019
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Scientific dogma has long asserted that females are born with their entire lifetime's supply of eggs, and once they're gone, they're gone. New findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published online ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 27, 2009
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More than 2,500 genes exhibit significant sex differences in expression in mouse alveolar type II cells (AT2s), which are important for keeping the lungs functioning, potentially explaining sex biases in the prevalence and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2023
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Scientists have known that sex-determination in vertebrates happens in the germ cells, a body's reproductive cells, and the somatic cells, the cells that are not reproductive cells. Yet they have not fully understood the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2022
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The first large-scale cellular map of gonadal developmental in both sexes has been created by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as part of the Human Cell Atlas initiative to map all cell types in the human body.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 7, 2022
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Micropollutants in water often are hormones that accumulate in the environment and may have negative impacts on humans and animals. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 21, 2022
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A new discovery explains what determines the number and position of genetic exchanges that occur in sex cells, such as pollen and eggs in plants, or sperm and eggs in humans.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 3, 2021
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For 30 years, University of Tokyo Associate Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki has traveled an hour west of Tokyo to visit the Sagami River and collect algal samples to understand how living things evolved different sexes. Through ...
Evolution
Jul 12, 2021
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Fruit flies have found at least two solutions to the problem of sorting their sex chromosomes: a matter of life and death.
Evolution
Jun 18, 2021
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