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A new analysis of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans are strange—and science knows it. For all our advances in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, there are still parts of ...