Check it out! 👇With growing pressure to phase out animal research, we argue that doing so now, when scientists are just beginning to address sex differences after decades of male-biased research, risks embedding existing knowledge gaps into "animal-free" biomedicine. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The SABV Symposium website is live! Check out the great lineup of speakers, abstract submission info, registration details, and highlights from past events 👇 sabvsymposium.org @talliezee.bsky.social @jeffreymogil.bsky.social @nifti12.bsky.social @avstempel.bsky.social @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social

I am happy to announce the 3rd edition of the Sex as a Biological Variable (#SABV) biennial Symposium! Following the great success of the 2022 and 2024 symposia at the University of Bern, this year’s event will take place at the University of Zurich on June 23–24.

Geneticist John Greally fears above all that the tests could exacerbate existing inequalities. “I work in the Bronx, where 26 percent of the population lives in poverty and 40 percent receive food assistance,” says Greally,... www.zeit.de/2026/04/kuen...

Künstliche Befruchtung: Ein Kind mit hohem IQ und niedrigem Alzheimer-Risiko, bitte!

Start-ups wollen bei der Auswahl optimierter Superbabys helfen. Ein Paar aus Hessen zahlt zehntausende Euro für Gen-Screenings in den USA und muss sich dann entscheiden.

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Meet the team of EU-SABV! This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work. For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research! #SABV @costprogramme.bsky.social @jaricivana.bsky.social

Happy and honored to be at the Erice Workshop “Epigenetics: From Molecules to Behavior”, where I’ll be talking about epigenetic dynamics and how they connect hormones, environment, and behavior. Looking forward to 3 days of discussions and beautiful views!

🚀 Job Opportunity! Are you passionate about neuroscience, women’s health, and large-scale neuroimaging studies? I am hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join the @erc.europa.eu project #MappingPerimenopause! karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

Postdoctoral Researcher (d/f/m) in Women’s Brain Health (Neuroimaging)

full-time, part-time | 14.10.2025 | Campus Charité Mitte

karriere.charite.de

A year ago, Katharina Gapp and @cavazzalab.bsky.social started the Zuri-Repro Network to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in reproductive biology. Today, we enjoyed the 2nd meeting with an amazing program of keynotes, fash talks from young researchers, poster session. Thank you 🙏

Join us for the Swiss Steroid Symposium on June 27th @unibe.ch Happy to be there and to talk about the importance of considering sex steroid hormone status in basic and preclinical animal research. There are still some spots left and registration is free 👇

Big applause 👏👏👏 to amazing @christinadalla.bsky.social and to the whole #MNS2025 organizing committee

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our Symposium #MNS2025 on #SABV, as well as to the amazing speakers! Take-home: It is not enough to simply include both sexes, development, settings, and context also matter. We need to take these factors into account to increase the translational relevance

Time to go home... It was an amazing 5 days at #MNS2025. It was great to see old friends and also to make new ones. Super interesting sessions on sex differences and female brain health. Enjoyed every single minute!

Thanks to everyone who joined our session at #FELSA2025 today 🙏 I think we really did a great job @jeffreymogil.bsky.social Ben Phillips, Francesca Maranghi, Thorsten Buch...Goodbye, Athens... Next stop Chania #MNS25

If you are at #FELSA2025 join us tomorrow for the session on the importance of accounting for sex in animal experimentation #SABV

What a week! I am thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a highly competitive #COSTAction #CA24168 to launch the first pan-European research network dedicated to promoting and enhancing the current Sex as a Biological Variable #SABV initiative 🤩 www.cost.eu/70-new-cost-...

70 new COST Actions approved - COST

COST’s Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) confirms the funding of 70 new COST Actions and share's results of its Open Call 2024.

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#Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain affecting approximately 10% of reproductive-age women. This narrative review summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of endometriosis. #MedSky ja.ma/3RRLzOW

"Estrogen is the Meryl Streep of hormones, its versatility renowned among scientists." -a really great and accessible overview of estrogen's actions on the brain featuring our society's president, Dr. Margaret McCarthy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases?

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.

nytimes.com

Great afternoon today at the annual meeting of the Cardiovascular Research Center @unibern.bsky.social, discussing why including #sex and #gender in basic, preclinical, and clinical #research is essential, and exploring the best ways to practically incorporate it into study designs.

"Menstruation Matters" was launched recently. Our November Focus explores periods from a multidisciplinary lens, addressing myths, period poverty, and supporting menstrual health across diverse populations. [1/14] www.nature.com/collections/...

This review paper on the oxytocin receptor is an absolute tour de force. I regularly refer to it and can't imagine how much work must have gone into writing this. It's basically a mini-textbook journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

The Oxytocin Receptor: From Intracellular Signaling to Behavior | Physiological Reviews

The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly 25,000 publications since 1930 (see FIGURE 1, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for OXT and its...

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Happy to have been one of the speakers at last week's Symposium on Sex and Gender Medicine, organized by @stefaniadelprete.bsky.social @dkfz.bsky.social As someone who began organizing biannual #SABV symposiums in 🇨🇭 4 years ago, it’s great to see more European universities promoting this topic!

Our latest review-with @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we pour our ❤️🧠 & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health - Nature Reviews Endocrinology

This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...

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