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US students 'race' sperm in reproductive health stunt
A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse—but the athletes they are ...
Some male mice fiercely guard females within their territories, while others seek out quick flings
In a comprehensive study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, researchers tracked 244 wild-derived ...
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Gender–specific Single Transcript Level Atlas of Vasopressin and its Receptor (AVPR1a) in the Mouse Brain
This work presents an atlas of vasopressin (AVP) and its receptor AVPR1a in mouse brains using RNAscope to map single ... sub– nuclei and regions of female and male mice, respectively: ventricular ...
eLife20d
Site-specific DNA demethylation during spermatogenesis presets the sites of nucleosome retention in mouse sperm
This study provides valuable findings on the role of site-specific DNA methylation changes during spermatogenesis and their contribution to paternal epigenetic inheritance. The study proposes that ...
unh.edu21d
Of Mice and Women: How a Genomic Experiment Unveiled Surprising Gaps in Our Understanding of the Female Reproductive System
In summer 2024, I received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Hamel Undergraduate Research Center to pursue a project in Dr. MacManes’s genomics and physiology lab, which ...
Psychology Today22d
The Neurobiology of Sex
each mouse was placed in an enclosure with a female mouse. The courtship began as the male mouse approached and began to sniff out the female. Once both were ready, the male mouse went through ...