In any scientific research, there are typically two variables of interest: independent variables and dependent variables. In forming the backbone of scientific experiments, they help scientists ...

In an article, “Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Biomedical Research,” in Gender and Genome, the authors state that they would like investigators to consider how sex plays a role in the ...

The inclusion of sex as a biological variable in research is absolutely essential for improving our understanding of disease mechanisms contributing to risk and resilience. Studies focusing on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article aims to alert researchers interested in the attitudes vs. action debate to a long-standing discontinuity between research and ...

Our understanding of sex has come a long way. Aristotle theorized that heat during conception determined whether someone was born male or female. But while researchers have long moved on from that ...

Michael Yudell, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, wrote a March 9 Public Health Post piece about the misuse of racial categories in biomedical research. "Many public health ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Suggests concerns about measurement in reading research; these are addressed to researchers and consumers of research. The problems are ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 5 conducted a systematic review on the use of instrumental variable (IV) methods in oncology comparative effectiveness research. The main ...