Opinion: Sex inclusion in basic research drives discovery

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205; sklein2@jhu.edu schieb@stanford.edu.
² History of Science, and sklein2@jhu.edu schieb@stanford.edu.
³ School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
⁴ Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697;
⁵ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Genetics & Genome Biology, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8;
⁶ Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302;
⁷ Women's Health Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611;
⁸ Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201;
⁹ Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada H3A 1B1; and.
¹⁰ Psychology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Sabra L Klein et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015.

. 2015 Apr 28;112(17):5257-8.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502843112. Epub 2015 Apr 20.

¹ Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205; sklein2@jhu.edu schieb@stanford.edu.
² History of Science, and sklein2@jhu.edu schieb@stanford.edu.
³ School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
⁴ Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697;
⁵ Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Genetics & Genome Biology, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8;
⁶ Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302;
⁷ Women's Health Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611;
⁸ Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201;
⁹ Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada H3A 1B1; and.
¹⁰ Psychology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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