The inclusion of sex as a biological variable in research is absolutely essential for improving our understanding of disease mechanisms contributing to risk and resilience. Studies focusing on ...

A survey of 96 primatological articles revealed that cage location of research monkeys is rarely mentioned, although the environment of upper and lower row-housed animals markedly differs in terms of ...

Back in 2013, Charles Hoeffer from the University of Colorado Boulder was studying memory and learning in mice. He was looking at a specific protein in the brain called AKT1, which helps mice forget ...

To augment the rigor of health promotion research, this perspective article describes how cultural factors impact the outcomes of health promotion studies either intentionally or unintentionally. It ...

Our understanding of sex has come a long way. Aristotle theorized that heat during conception determined whether someone was born male or female. But while researchers have long moved on from that ...

Michael Yudell, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, wrote a March 9 Public Health Post piece about the misuse of racial categories in biomedical research. "Many public health ...

When studying the health effects of probiotics and prebiotics, researchers often observe significant variation in responses to these gut-targeting interventions, both between individuals and between ...

Recent advances in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence are converging on the need for representations that are at once distributed, ...

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