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Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is switched off in female cells ...
Feb 2, 2026
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An international team of scientists has uncovered new insights into how the previously understudied duplicate X chromosome in women may contribute to Alzheimer's disease risk, according to a multicenter study published in ...
Jan 7, 2025
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A team of infectious and inflammatory disease specialists affiliated with several institutions in France reports that women are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, due to failed X-chromosome inactivation.
Somewhere between 24 and 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks our own tissues. As many as four out of five of those people are women.
Feb 1, 2024
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