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Conventional medical wisdom holds that a virus, bacteria or, in short, any pathogen acts the same way once in the human body, regardless of whether the host is a man or a woman. The development parameters and the incubation periods are roughly the same, and the specific hormones that chemically differentiate males fr... |
3 February 2009
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In a new study, published in the January 23rd issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, researchers at the Brigham Young University in the US have identified that playing video games regularly may have very serious repercussions on a gamer's personal life, as far as relationships with peers, friends and fam... |
23 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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"Think it and it might just become true!" This is just one way to describe the findings detailed by researchers of the University of Rochester's Medical Center, who have recently discovered that men who really believe that they have a low chance of developing a cardiovascular disease have in fact three times les... |
14 July 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Data regarding as much as 200,000 kidney transplants done between 1985 and 2004, shows that gender is a key factor in this type of invasive procedure, kidneys from women received by men being unable to fully cope with their function due to their smaller size, while female recipients are much more likely to reject mal... |
11 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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A review regarding the findings of the 90+ Study in the United States, the biggest study on dementia and other health factors in the country, found recently that women with ages over 90 years are more likely to have dementia than men. The original study involved the investigation of 911 people with ages over 90 and i... |
3 July 2008
03:59 GMT |
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A new study carried out by researchers at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medial Center reveals that women don't respond as well as males do to drug treatment, such as losartan and atenolol, against cardiovascular diseases although the two drugs are successful in reducing the blood pressure in a... |
2 July 2008
04:36 GMT |
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We know that boys have XY sex chromosomes, while girls have XX. However, in some cases, newborn girls can be XY. A new research published in the Nature journal clarifies why some XY embryos, instead of being born as males, develop ovaries and evolve as girls: it's because of a gene called Sox9, involved in forma... |
9 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There are couples give birth to so many babies they could literally form a football team, and all because of their desire of having a daughter. Others end up with a group of cheerleaders but a boy fails to make himself present. The answer is simpler than thought: a new study carried out at the Universities of Exeter ... |
23 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There is a large array of recent researchers unveiling the differences between the male and female brain. A new research published in the journal Cell shows the opposite, that the two genders have a largely unisex brain. The researchers managed to trigger artificially the neurons controlling singing, a male only acti... |
19 April 2008
04:26 GMT |
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It is largely believed that boys are educated to adopt male values: in movies or video games, the male heroes are killing machines with muscular hypertrophy that solve their problems through force, annihilating their opponents. Boys are punished more harshly than girls are, and parents expect them to be tough, protec... |
5 April 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelmi... |
14 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Men and women are clearly different species. And this is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also the opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences...The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines the feminizatio... |
16 February 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Men are bigger than women and they have a reputation as being more thick-headed than the females. And here comes the surprise delivered by a new research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety: in fact, women have thicker skulls then men!The team made of researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianj... |
25 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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GID (gender identity disorder) can turn life into a hell. The condition is characterized by strong disgust for the body and deep uncertainty over the sense of self. Hiding the condition is the cause for a lot of distress. At puberty, transboys may grow female secondary sex traits, like breasts, and may even have me... |
25 January 2008
04:13 GMT |
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You already know this: the sex chromosome from your father dictated your sex: boy for Y, girl for X. It's the same case with all the mammals. The mother will always come with an X chromosome. But in reptiles, there are neither sex chromosomes, nor sex portions on the chromosomes. All the eggs have the potential ... |
24 January 2008
05:43 GMT |
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What would you prefer? The shy geek avoiding your look or the daring punk? The stupid bimbo not daring to look at you or the vivid girl piercing you with her eyes?Maybe the folk wisdom already knows it, but a new research strengthens it: look directly at someone if you want to appear more attractive, say the results ... |
8 November 2007
16:31 GMT |
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There should be a worldwide sex ratio of 106 newborn boys to 100 newborn girls. Boys are anyhow more fragile and by puberty, the ratio will be 1:1. Even 1:1 at birth is not good, but when this drops to one boy for each two girls, this is disastrous.This is the case of the Chippewas of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a... |
31 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Except for couples like Tom Cruise - Nicole Kidman, we know that the man is usually taller than the woman. But the body size, form and structure between the genders are not limited only to humans. And the evolutionary causes of these differences are not clearly understood. A new scholarly book sums up the latest disc... |
9 October 2007
16:41 GMT |
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"Men come from Mars, and women from Venus", that's why they feel and behave differently. A new University of Western Sydney research showed that current depression treatments are not very successful with men as they are developed targeting especially women. "Men and women cope with and receive treatment for dep... |
3 October 2007
06:39 GMT |
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Men and women come from different planets. That's a scientifically proven fact: male brain is better when it comes to navigational and spatial skills (like reading a map in a car or visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams, mentally rotating objects, judging line angles and dis... |
29 September 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Hair loss is more than a physical issue. For many people, it is a great fatality that even changes their character. They turn more introverted, avoid relations with the others, get low self esteem, and even depression. Men will think that the others see them as being less attractive and sometimes even less virile (pa... |
26 September 2007
14:07 GMT |
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This is a breakthrough with a double meaning for the feminist party. The genes may be the same, but the brain structure makes women aspire to IQ records, while men are either geniuses or simply dumb. In everyday life, what you see is what you get...Researchers have justified this by suggesting there are twice as many... |
25 September 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Naturally, about 103-106 boys are born, as compared to 100 girls (a birth sex ratio of 1.03-1.06). But as boys are weaker, at the adult age there will be a sex ratio of about 100:100 (or 1). In the last decades, there has been registered a decrease in the number of baby boys born as compared to girls in industrialize... |
25 September 2007
05:08 GMT |
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You may know that birth sex ratio (the number of newborn males compared to the number of newborn females) is about 103-106 : 100. But combine ignorance (read it cultural preferences for boys), modern reproductive technology and one child policy and here is the result: by 2020 there will be over 37 million extra Chine... |
5 September 2007
16:36 GMT |
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"I want her to be intelligent, cultivated, well mannered..." Who the heck believes all this crap, when the first things a man sees when he looks at a woman are boobs, legs and butt?Even if we proudly call ourselves "Homo sapiens" ("Wise people"), we still behave like chimps when it comes to choosing a mate. At least ... |
4 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Which man in this world is not jealous of Hugh Hefner? It is a fact that men prefer younger women as mates, and women want by their side an older man. This male preference is universal across cultures. Now, a scientific reason has been found: it boosts the evolutionary success. In short, the number of children an ind... |
1 September 2007
04:41 GMT |
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The data does not lie. Girls learn to read before boys, get better marks in college, and even their brain contains more gray matter. Medically, boys are clearly weaker. Children receive an asexuate education, but the neurological, chemical and hormonal differences are a reality. Even from the fetal state, males are w... |
16 June 2007
07:31 GMT |
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The beautiful blond women of Sweden are facing a huge problem: they are getting increasingly fatter. Swedish researchers are puzzled by an unusual situation: Swedish little girls are more predisposed to obesity than little boys are. A recent investigation made by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University revealed th... |
10 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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"The Lion King" presented to the public the meerkats, a type of South African mangoose, through the character of Timon. But unlike Timon, real meerkats do not keep company to warthogs and do not live solitary but in social groups, up to 30 individuals, with a complex cooperative behavior and a strict hierarchy. But i... |
25 April 2007
06:10 GMT |
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The minds of the two sexes are so differently fired: men want sex, women want money ...The difference is present also when we are planning how to reach for something, according to a new research at Faculty of Health's School of Kinesiology, York University, made by associate professor Lauren Sergio and Dr. Diana... |
14 April 2007
06:43 GMT |
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They win again ...A new research found that muscle stem cells coming from females are better at generating tissue than the male ones are, a discovery with great impact in the stem technology, aiming at therapies against many diseases and conditions. Scientists working on muscle stem cells realized that all of the one... |
10 April 2007
04:01 GMT |
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Common sense has already pointed you that men snore more than women, but a new research proved it scientifically. More researchers have coincided that up to 80 % of men snore at some time, double the number compared to women, and about 40 % of them snore every night."It's much more a male problem than female [on... |
5 April 2007
09:47 GMT |
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A face like Steven Segal's may upset or raise concern, but there are some individuals with high levels of testosterone who actually enjoy angry looks and even seek methods to provoke them, as suggests a new research. "It's kind of striking that an angry facial expression is consciously valued as a very nega... |
2 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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You may believe that race is something not so obvious, but adult brains are so keen in detecting race, sex and age that we can correctly determine those traits from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show. "It's surprising how much information the silhouette provides," said lead rese... |
2 April 2007
08:33 GMT |
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Diet and exercise are the key to a fit body. But their impact is quite different in boys and girls. A new British research found that exercise acts differently on body fat for boys and girls. The researchers found that recommendations on exercise to decrease the up-going tendency of obesity in children have tackled w... |
29 March 2007
02:59 GMT |
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What makes the sexes be attracted to one another?What makes you end up for the night with a drag queen instead of a nice girl?A new research points that perceived attractiveness is determined by how biological sex is linked to sexual cues (masculinity and femininity). The research made by Kerri Johnson at New York Un... |
13 March 2007
09:47 GMT |
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