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DATE: August 25, 2026 at 04:03AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: Most Papers Claiming Sex Differences Never Compared Sexes, Study Finds

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Source: PsyPost

New research indicates that many scientific papers claiming men and women respond differently to treatments or interventions lack strong evidence to back up those claims. When analyzing recent studies in the behavioral and brain sciences, scientists found that fewer than one in four articles properly compared male and female responses. These findings, published in PNAS, raise questions about the evidence behind medical treatments tailored to...

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SexDifferences #GenderResearch #SexDifferencesInScience #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchMethods #PsyPost #PNAS #MaleVsFemale #ScientificEvidence #BehavioralScience

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266921

#HackerNews #lifesavingsecret #horseshoecrab #blueblood #conservation #biomedicalresearch

🧬 Ever found the perfect cell line for your project, only to discover...

• it has 5 different names in the literature
• another lab says it was misidentified
• a database lists a different tissue origin

So… which information do you trust?

This is exactly why researchers use Cellosaurus
👉Visit us at: https://lnkd.in/eKQzET_K

By bringing together curated information on thousands of cell lines; including synonyms, origins, disease associations, references, and authentication data, Cellosaurus helps scientists quickly answer questions that would otherwise take hours of searching across papers and databases.

Because researchers shouldn’t have to solve a detective case before starting an experiment.

What’s the most confusing cell line naming issue you’ve encountered?

Part of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics biodata resource portfolio, Cellosaurus is recognized as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource and Global Biodata Coalition Global Core Biodata Resource + International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) Recognized Resource
More about SIB resources: https://www.expasy.org/

#cellines #Cellosaurus #cellbiology #researchtools #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #bioinformatics

🧠 What if missing data is not a flaw, but one of the most informative parts of a complex system?

🔗 Informative Missingness in Nominal Data: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Revealing Hidden Structure. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ). DOI: https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0099

📚 CSBJ - A Science Partner Journal: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj

#DataScience #BigData #GraphTheory #ComputationalBiology #NetworkScience #Bioinformatics #SystemsBiology #BiomedicalResearch #MissingData

Awesome stuff!! #WhiteheadInstitute #MIT #Immunology #ImmuneSystem #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchSky

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I'm excited that @SciPyConf is coming to #minneapolis July 13-19 on the UMN campus. Check out the schedule at https://www.scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule

There are online tickets for those that aren't here (but why not come here) with special pricing for students and academics. In particular the Biology and Medical Sciences talks are Wed the 15th. #biomedicalResearch #python

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• Biomedical Research: The discussion contrasts observational curiosity, such as the AMNH cat sex experiments or Harry Harlow’s monkey studies, with research intended for lifesaving cures.

• The Three R's: It highlights progress in the scientific community through Replacement (e.g., synthetic skin), Reduction (computer models), and Refinement (pain management).

https://youtu.be/6lOfoKbLPDg

#AnimalRights #Ethics #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #BiomedicalResearch #DavidDeGrazia

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Philosophical Frameworks

The podcast defines three tiers of moral consideration:

1. Moral Status: Recognizing a being’s welfare for its own sake.
2. Equal Consideration: Granting equal moral weight to comparable interests, such as the avoidance of pain.
3. Utility-Trumping Rights: Protecting vital interests, like life or liberty, regardless of societal benefit

https://youtu.be/6lOfoKbLPDg

#AnimalRights #Ethics #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #BiomedicalResearch

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• Eastern Traditions: In contrast, the podcast highlights Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, which emphasize interconnectedness and non-injury to all living things through principles like ahimsa.

• Scientific Shifts: The narrative covers how Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Jeremy Bentham's focus on suffering dismantled rigid mechanical hierarchies.

https://youtu.be/6lOfoKbLPDg

#AnimalRights #Ethics #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #BiomedicalResearch #DavidDeGrazia

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Historical and Global Perspectives

• Western Hierarchy: The episode traces the origins of human supremacy to Aristotle, who argued that because animals lack reason, their biological purpose is to serve humans.

• Mechanical Views: It discusses René Descartes' 17th-century view of animals as "organic machines" without consciousness or the ability to feel pain.

https://youtu.be/6lOfoKbLPDg

#AnimalRights #Ethics #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #BiomedicalResearch #podcast

Are Animals Machines or Moral Equals ?

This podcast episode provides a detailed exploration of the ethical and philosophical frameworks surrounding animal rights and human utility. Using David de Grazia’s Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction as a primary resource, the discussion aims to provide listeners with a philosophical toolkit to navigate complex debates on animal welfare.

https://youtu.be/6lOfoKbLPDg

#AnimalRights #Ethics #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AnimalWelfare #BiomedicalResearch

Here's the third (and last!) entry in a series of blog posts on the #cdisc Dataset-JSON standard. This entry goes over the REST API component and potential issues with it.

Pushing for the future of #clinicaltrial #data (and related to the #pharmaverse and #rstats folks in #biomedicalresearch) and better workflows for running those trials.

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2026-03-11-datasetjson-part3/

A study in Nature shows that M101—an oxygen carrier from the marine worm *Arenicola marina*—significantly reduces inflammation and tissue destruction caused by *P. gingivalis*. A promising step for periodontal therapy! 🧫🌊🦷

Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71593-8
#Periodontitis #Inflammation #BiomedicalResearch #ScienceNews

Here's the second entry in a series of blog posts on the #cdisc Dataset-JSON standard. This entry goes over potential issues with the specification.

Pushing for the future of #clinicaltrial #data (and related to the #pharmaverse and #rstats folks in #biomedicalresearch).

Here's to moving past 1989 file formats in ... 2026 - in SAS, R, or Python!

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2026-01-15-datasetjson-part2/

First entry in a series of blog posts on the #cdisc Dataset-JSON standard. Diving in on the future of #clinical #research #data (and related to the #pharmaverse and #rstats folks in #biomedicalresearch)

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-31-datasetjson-part1/

Scientists have grown a tiny human "blood factory" that actually works—an advanced 3D bone marrow model made entirely from human cells! This breakthrough promises to reduce animal testing and could revolutionize blood cancer research and personalized treatments. 🩸🦴🔬 #BiomedicalResearch #Innovation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251120092103.htm
#newz

🔍 Can AI transform how we discover biological datasets?

🔗 Public Omics Explorer (POE): Enabling integrative semantic search across GEO omics datasets based on PubMed publications. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.11.004

📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/

#Bioinformatics #Genomics #SemanticSearch #ArtificialIntelligence #BiomedicalResearch #FAIRData #OpenScience #ComputationalBiology #DataDiscovery #MachineLearning

AI revolutionising fight against cancer and diabetes
#Health #AI #CancerResearch #DiabetesResearch #Biotech #Type1Diabetes #DrugDiscovery #MedicalAI #Healthcare #Immunotherapy #HealthcareInnovation #PrecisionMedicine #DigitalHealth #BiomedicalResearch
https://the-14.com/ai-revolutionising-fight-against-cancer-and-diabetes/

🔬🧠 Researchers from our school have developed a ‘self-driving’ microscope that can predict the onset of misfolded protein aggregation, a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease, as well as analyze the biomechanical properties of these aggregates.

#NeurodegenerativeDisease #BiomedicalResearch #MedicalInnovation

Read more: https://go.epfl.ch/eST-en

🔎 How can AI-powered tools help scientists uncover hidden connections in disease research?

🔗 Darling (v2.0): Mining disease-related databases for the detection of biomedical entity associations. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.06.025

📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/

#AIinScience #BiomedicalTextMining #Genomics #PrecisionMedicine #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #BiomedicalResearch #BiomedicalAI #LiteratureMining #SystemsBiology #Omics #KnowledgeDiscovery

Don’t miss it!

Final reminder: Prof. Markus List's seminar on data leakage in biomedical ML is today! Many thanks to @Francesca_Finotello, @uniinnsbruck, and the Molecular Biology Department for this opportunity.

🕔 17:00 (CEST)
📍 Campus Technik, Hörsaal D

#BiomedicalResearch #MachineLearning

🧬 Happening today! Join us for a GHGA lecture by Prof. Rami Abou Jamra (University of Leipzig):
"Genome sequencing for rare disease diagnostics: uncovering hidden causal variants"
Learn how genome sequencing is advancing the diagnosis of rare diseases beyond exome analysis.

📅 May 21, 2025 | 🕒 4PM
🔗 Register here: https://dkfz-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/eE1w4zLpTFO4z2jcuUxbDg#/registration

Part of the Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine series.
#Genomics #RareDiseases #GHGA #BiomedicalResearch #GenomeSequencing

🔬 🧫 Organoids are a promising breakthrough that scientists have been exploring over the past 15 years. These three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from human stem cells stand to revolutionize some aspects of biomedical research, but they won’t do away entirely with the need for animal testing.

#Organoids #BiomedicalResearch #StemCellResearch

Read more: https://go.epfl.ch/61U-en