In a breakthrough finding, researchers have discovered that immune cells near the spinal cord are triggered by estrogen and ...

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that acts via an immune cell and points toward a different way of treating chronic ...

"We are currently assessing exposure of short term (several weeks or less) androgens on reproductive parameters of female ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get to ...

Addiction researchers at The Florey have found a new pathway in the brain related to binge drinking in females, potentially ...

New research has discovered an unexpected way pregnancy alters the brain—by changing a mother's temperature preferences. A study from the Baylor College of Medicine found that postpartum women prefer ...

Minder and colleagues began the work by introducing male mice into the enclosures of female mice that had just given birth, allowing the rodents to mate while the females were still nursing their ...

More research is still needed to confirm that the findings in mice translate to people, but overall, the work points to a ...

But the UCSF team discovered that as female mice reached the equivalent of about 65 human years, their ‘silent’ second X started expressing genes that bolster the brain’s connections, increasing ...

Details of this study done in mice have been published in a Science Advances paper titled, “Aging activates escape of the silent X chromosome in the female mouse hippocampus.” In it ...