Brazilian study published in #FrontiersinGenetics show gender bias in the use of #menstrual blood. The material tends to be less used in experiments and its scientific value tends to be underestimated, which brings gender bias to a technical and molecular level. All this, despite proven scientific quality of menstrual blood mesenchymal cells. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.957164

I'm an eternal google reader orphan and I haven't recovered yet. I've been using #theoldreader to track #sciencejournals, but I was never happy with it. Does anyone know something better? #rss

#Introduction - Hi! I spent part of my career in #ScienceJournalism. In the last ten years, I have been analyzing scientific controversies - first, in my master's (access to #CBD in #Brazil); then, controversies involving the causality of #ZikaVirus in fetal anomalies (#PhD). Now, at #VOICES, an international project about #OpenScience. Working with #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #SociologyOfHealthAndIllness
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