/ Sex Content for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis en /curiosity-gap/%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BFcan-we-determine-biological-sex-single-tooth <p>A team led by °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis researchers have come up with a new way to estimate the biological sex of human skeletal remains based on protein traces from teeth.</p> <p>Tooth of a European-American buried in San Francisco in the 1850s.</p> <p>A new technique developed at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis allows archaeologists to find a person’s biological sex based on a single tooth.</p> December 20, 2018 - 3:41pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity-gap/%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BFcan-we-determine-biological-sex-single-tooth /news/pigeon-study-takes-sexism-science <p>In experimental research, scientists tend to assume that — unless they are looking specifically at reproduction or sexual behavior — male and female animals are alike, and mostly use males. But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of New Hampshire, published April 18 in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45125"><em>Scientific Reports</em></a>, shows surprisingly big differences in tissue gene expression between male and female rock doves.</p> April 18, 2017 - 5:31pm Andy Fell /news/pigeon-study-takes-sexism-science