Our collaboration with Johns Hopkins

Our collaboration with Johns Hopkins

Hormones – The Classical explanation for physiological sex differences

Ask a layperson what biologically differentiates males and females, and at least two different answers will undoubtedly emerge: gonads and hormones.

Sending Icarus into Space

Sending Icarus into Space (and Getting Him Safely Back Home Again)

Gender and Body Fat

If Leptin regulates overall body mass, what factors are responsible for women’s and men’s different body shapes?  Classically, women look like pears and men like apples.
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What’s the difference between men’s and women’s lungs

men’s lungs are smaller than those of men.  Before you say “I knew it,” I want to tell you something surprising: the lungs are smaller in women even when we adjust for smaller size of women’s bodies.
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Nature versus Nature?

Perhaps no question sparks more controversy than whether children assume sex roles as a result of their biology or the socialization they’re exposed to.  The answer, of course, is probably not an “either/or” but a “with” – some combination of the socialization we receive interacts with our natural biology (itself a knot of complicated and

The Intelligent Genome: How Epigenetics Mediates Adaptation

Marianne J. Legato, MD, PhD (hon.c.), FACP GENDER AND THE GENOME Volume 1, Number 3 The world we are living in seems to be in an unprecedented state of perpetual crisis: nations are changing leadership and direction; a new level of life-threatening bellicosity saturates the daily news. The planet itself seems to be in a

How focusing on women is impacting how we think about the unique biology of men

One of the most unexpected and valuable benefits of thinking so deeply and meticulously regarding the nature of women's biology, surprisingly, has been a new view of how to investigate the unique biology of men

Excerpted From Gender and the Genome 2019 Vol. 3: 1-3

Personalized Medicine and the Icarus Project: Ethical and Moral Issues in Sending Humans into Space The irresistible urge of humans to expand their current competence in mastering the environment is nowhere more apparent than the attempt to conquer space and colonize other worlds. The promise of an expanded universe for earth’s life forms is irresistible.

The Difference in How We Talk

we’ve just learned that women hear and process what they hear better than men do. But the ease with which women understand language extends to producing it as well.  Women find verbal communication easier and have richer vocabularies than men.