SAN FRANCISCO — A genetic coin toss that happens before birth might influence how women’s brains age decades later. A study ...

UCSF researchers may have discovered how the female brain remains resilient in aging, answering an age-old question of how ...

The molecules that silence a woman’s second X chromosome can confuse the immune system, a new study suggests. By Carl Zimmer Women are much more likely than men to have their immune system turn ...

The cocktail-party bore who laces his chatter with the tiresome cliche about “crazy, mixed-up women” has more medical science on his side than he knows—and more than medical scientists themselves have ...

Brain cells, or oligodendrocytes (green), in the hippocampus are marked with the GFP genetic marker in the mouse brain. These cells often deteriorate during aging. Image credit: Gadek et al., Science ...