Vive La Difference, and Other Ways It May Not Be Good
If you're a certain age you know the expression, "Vive la difference!" And if you're not, it means, well, thank goodness for boys and girls, and all their differences. But now scientists are finding that the incongruities between the sexes are even more dramatic than anyone knew. We're talking cells, sex cells . Not sex sells, but sex cells. You know, the things researchers use to figure out how to cure diseases and find therapies for different illnesses. "There is now good reason to consider that studies conducted in male cells will produce results different from those of identical studies using female cell lines," Cathy Fuller, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, tells newswise.com. "This could have a profound effect on fields such as personalized medicine.” Not long ago, the world learned that medications have different effects on me...