The sex of the researcher can influence results of mouse experiments

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Laboratory mice are more stressed when they are handled by men than women, and this may affect the results of medical research using animal

Laboratory mice tend to be more stressed when they can smell men, making them behave differently in experiments depending on whether they are handled by a man or a woman. The finding raises important questions about past research using mice, since animal studies generally don’t control for an experimenter’s sex.

at the University of Maryland began investigating this issue after his team couldn’t replicate a simple lab result. The experiment involved a “forced swim test”, in which researchers place mice in …

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