Sentences with phrase «in male»

For monogamous animals, the future health and fertility of the female is as much in the male's interest as hers.
The researchers also think mobile money could give women in male - headed households, who are also usually secondary income earners, more financial independence, which could help them start their own businesses.
The most remarkable observation, however, was that the troop had apparently maintained the peace despite a complete turnover in the male population.
Dr Rod Mitchell, a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, said: «This study adds to existing evidence that prolonged use of paracetamol in pregnancy may increase the risk of reproductive disorders in male babies.
By contrast, these females retained a normal level of social interest in other females during estrus, and in male mice when not in estrus.
She found that putting women together reduced their anxiety levels and that women spoke up less when in a male - dominant group.
Using these images and 20 years of genetic parentage data, the researchers assessed whether the variation in red ornaments influenced fecundity — that is they produced more offspring — and is heritable in male and female rhesus macaques, two necessary conditions for the trait to be considered under sexual selection.
In male adult frogs exposed to 25 ppb of atrazine, testosterone levels dropped 10-fold, to levels found in females.
The collaborative international research also shows that skin coloration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited quality — the first example of heritability for a sexually - selected trait to be described in any mammal.
Diaz is interested in taking this research further, to determine exactly what changed in the brain to cause such increased levels of anxiety after alcohol exposure, and to see why the effects are apparent in male rats but not females.
RED - LIGHT DISTRICT Levels of a brain reward compound increased in male fruit flies genetically engineered to ejaculate when exposed to red light when the insects were bathed in the rosy hue.
«Brief exposure to charismatic career women inspires female students to pursue same field: Easy, inexpensive experiment briefly sent inspiring role models into intro to econ classes and sharply increased college female interest in the male - dominated, well - paying field of economics.»
She cites study after study showing little or no difference in male and female capabilities.
More recent explanations have emphasized social and personal obstacles, such as discrimination and isolation, that women face when they enter or try to advance in male - dominated fields.
«This is a refreshingly novel approach, and the studies are of top quality and are highly convincing,» says Richard Sharpe, who specialises in male reproductive health at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
(My trip in search of men's suits in our male version of the column was much shorter — more «hunting,» less «gathering.»)
The models usually came in male and female pairs, with the woman almost always bearing a child.
They also showed that three of the FM 550 components dose - dependently accumulate in placenta, with levels higher in male - associated placentas.
Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.
In the new work, Adam G. Jones of the Georgia Institute and his colleagues studied seahorses off the coast of Perth, Australia, in which the female deposits her eggs in a male's brood pouch and he fertilizes and carries the eggs until they hatch.
In the US, the problem is particularly acute; neurological deaths in male over 75s have nearly trebled and females rose more than five-fold.
A new series of studies reveals three distinct ways in which virus populations in the male genital tract can arise, paving the way for more refined research into virus dynamics at this crucial transmission site.
In particular, the fitness bottleneck was less severe in male - to - female transmission than in female - to - male.
As researchers have been uncovering a growing number of differences between the semen - based virus and blood - borne populations — and the number of people with the virus continues to rise rapidly — the race to piece together a better understanding of the virus's makeup and behavior in the male genital tract has grown ever more urgent.
At Yochim's suggestion, Bartke began using the dwarf mice to investigate prolactin's role in male fertility, an unexplored area.
From what I have observed, female scientists and engineers at all stages of their careers are especially vulnerable to burnout and disillusionment due to working in a male - dominated culture.
The study also revealed that CEP63 is related to fertility in male mice.
Yet these environments are hard to find in science, and because increasing the representation of women in male environments takes time — decades earlier than years — this is more of a long term option.
In ponds dominated by female fish, the researchers observed more pronounced ecological changes, including fewer zooplankton and a greater abundance of algae, than in male dominated ponds.
The overexpression of an important gene that regulates energy metabolism can cause a severe shortening of lifespan in male fruit flies but has only a small negative effect on lifespans of female fruit flies, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
If a shift in public health policy were to result in an increase in male vaccinations, experts say, at the very least rates of females» HPV - associated cancers would decrease as a result of fewer infections acquired from men.
Aside from the variation of paracrine factors between male and female cells, the team also found important differences in organization, distribution and morphology of actin filaments in male and female hAMSCs.
In a report on the research published online last week in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the investigators say that the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) was smaller over the long term in the male offspring exposed to the overactive immune system in the womb.
Both sexes have to fight to make it to the top, but women in male environments always have to push a bit harder.
Males who evolve in male - dominated populations become far better at securing females than those who grow up in monogamous populations, according to new research into the behaviour of fruit flies at the University of Sheffield.
Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study investigated how a single bout of intense exercise could reduce olanzapine - induced hyperglycemia in male mice.
At the Worcester Foundation, Bartke continued his investigations of prolactin in male reproduction and joined the staff after 2 years.
And so did the scent of chemicals from the armpit, called axillary secretions, some of which are found at higher concentrations in male mammals than in females.
Jahren also addresses the compound challenges she faced as a woman scientist in a male - dominated profession, coupled with her eventual diagnosis as a manic - depressive.
Interestingly, previous studies on mice have shown that transglutaminase 4 plays an important part in male fertility.»
Stress appeared to alter chemical tags on the DNA in a male's sperm.
New research uncovers three methods of HIV development in the male genital tract that can make the virus look different from blood - borne populations
Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.
During the study, thirty hours following a high - dose intravenous infusion of EP055 in male rhesus macaques, O'Rand and researchers in the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, found no indication of normal sperm motility.
«What we didn't know and found through our research is that these three structures are distinctly different in protein composition, are separately stored in the male reproductive tract and are transferred sequentially to the female reproductive tract during mating.»
Those suppressors have not been effective in male giraffes, but vasectomies have been performed in giraffes.
When the workshop ended, one graduate student thanked Eroy - Reveles, teary - eyed because the discussion legitimized pain she'd felt for years in a male - dominated engineering lab.
2) The Rights of Women Governor Cuomo, you made a key theme of your campaign the dignity and equality of women in our male chauvinist society.
Instead of talking about sex scandals, we should be talking about paid parental leave, early childhood education, the gender gap in male - dominated careers, and the feminization of poverty.
Wright has signaled tacit support for Ortega given his purported neutrality in the male district leader race.
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