16 results found
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans

    Linda H Lidborg, Catharine Penelope Cross, Lynda G Boothroyd
    While men’s mating success is predicted both by their strength/muscularity, voice pitch, height, and testosterone levels, their reproductive output is only predicted by strength/muscularity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Oxytocin modulates human chemosensory decoding of sex in a dose-dependent manner

    Kepu Chen, Yuting Ye ... Wen Zhou
    Oxytocin, but not the structurally similar vasopressin, modulates both the chemosensory decoding of femininity in straight men and that of masculinity in gay men in an inverted-U-shaped manner.
  1. ASPIRES logo provided by UCL Institute of Education showing a row of short grey pencils with three taller red pencils inserted near the middle.

    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: ASPIRES

    A longitudinal survey of young people in the UK has found that girls, working-class and minority ethnic students feel they have to work harder to be seen as ‘authentic’ science students.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Plasma growth hormone pulses induce male-biased pulsatile chromatin opening and epigenetic regulation in adult mouse liver

    Andy Rampersaud, Jeannette Connerney, David J Waxman
    Pulsatile chromatin opening stimulated by naturally-occurring plasma growth hormone pulses is one of two GH-determined mechanisms that establish widespread sex differences in hepatic chromatin accessibility and epigenetic regulation, both closely linked to sex differences in liver gene transcription and function.
  2. Living Science: The truth is in the distribution

    Indira M Raman
    There may be as many ways to think about the experience of women in science as there are women in science.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Investigating pleiotropic effects of statins on ischemic heart disease in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomisation

    CM Schooling, JV Zhao ... GM Leung
    Identifying why statins differ from other major lipid modifiers has revealed a new modifiable target of intervention for cardiovascular disease relevant to both drug development and optimal statin use.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of male-biased genes in a dioecious flowering plant

    Lei Zhao, Wei Zhou ... Hong-Tao Li
    Computational analyses, for the first time in plants, reveal how male-biased genes evolve faster than female-biased and unbiased genes.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations

    Alex Mas-Sandoval, Sara Mathieson, Matteo Fumagalli
    Social hierarchies resulting from the European colonization of the Americas stratified the population structure, leading to ancestry-related assortative mating and sex bias patterns that can be inferred from the genomes of the populations across the continent.
    1. Neuroscience

    fruitless tunes functional flexibility of courtship circuitry during development

    Jie Chen, Sihui Jin ... Yufeng Pan
    The courtship master gene fruitless tunes functional flexibility of courtship circuitry during development instead of switching on its function as conventionally viewed.
    1. Neuroscience

    Enhancing precision in human neuroscience

    Stephan Nebe, Mario Reutter ... Gordon B Feld
    Measurement precision offers a comprehensive perspective on good scientific practices to improve reproducibility of research results by providing means to optimize design and analysis parameters (e.g. sample size, trial count, or sample heterogeneity) in accordance with the researcher’s goals.

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