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Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, is author of Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body.
Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?
Black people get sicker because of stereotypes taught in medical schools.
Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.
The FDA has approved an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist.
CRISPR-Cas9 is now the fastest, most sequence-specific technique for the rewriting of genetic information. With all this potential come serious challenges.
Individuality can emerge even when genes and environment are constant.
One in five in college women is sexually assaulted. This statistic might be wrong, but does it matter?
Getting government grants for research is harder than ever. Our system is breaking down.
Memories are not a record of the past; when evoked, they adjust to the current context.
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