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“A Mosaic Spectrum Of Sex Characteristics”: Most Organs In Our Bodies Don’t Fit The Male-Female Sex Binary

We humans love putting things in boxes. Assigning simple categories makes us feel comfortable – but all too often, biology ...

Why our organs cannot simply be classified as male or female

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs ...
eLife

Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex classification of somatic tissues

Sex-biased gene expression in the body organs evolves rapidly, supporting a mosaic model of maleness and femaleness across tissues and thus challenging binary views of sex characteristics in mammals.

Is the Keto Diet Sexist? Research Reveals Stark Differences in How Male and Female Bodies Respond

Estrogen protected female mice from harmful effects of a keto diet that affected males. Could males and females respond differently to a ketogenic diet? Research from Health Science Center at San ...
Nature

Male mice can grow female organs — if their mothers lack iron

Iron deficiency in mice mothers can sometimes result in their offspring developing female sex organs despite having male sex genes, according to new research. Although genetics has been thought to be ...
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft

The Sex of the Body: Why Our Organs Cannot Simply Be Classified as Male or Female

A new study by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and the Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center at Peking University in Beijing, China, shows that our organs form a mosaic of ...