It’s that time of year… mosquito season. Mosquitoes are responsible for quite a bit of disease spread, including yellow fever, malaria, dengue, and canine heartworm, just to name a few. In the case of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, the females are the problem – males don’t bite, and therefore won’t spread disease. So […]
Males struggle less with weight loss than females, just diet with your significant other sometime ladies, but a new study shows that a molecule found in plant leaves keeps female mice from gaining weight but not males. Can we get a collective WOO HOO?!?! Researchers have shown that a hormone called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), […]
Much research involves male animals. Fortunately, that’s changing – and with interesting results! Allergic anaphylaxis is more severe in female mice than in males – because of estrogen. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, knew that women tend to have more severe anaphylactic reactions than do men, […]