The fraught quest to account for sex in biology research - Nature.com

Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments — a requirement that’s contentious and hard to get right.
Illustration by Kasia Bojanowska In 2016, pharmacologist Susan Howlett wrote up a study on how hormone levels during pregnancy affect heart function and sent it off to a journal. When the reviewers… [+17223 chars] Read More