In any scientific research, there are typically two variables of interest: independent variables and dependent variables. In forming the backbone of scientific experiments, they help scientists ...

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 ...

In an article, “Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Biomedical Research,” in Gender and Genome, the authors state that they would like investigators to consider how sex plays a role in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...