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Why women's brains are more resilient: it could be their 'silent' X chromosome
- bell-cot 2y agoThe headline needs the usual "slightly, statistically more resilient" caveat. And as usual, it's just one study. In mice: > a team reports that, at least in female mice, ageing activates expression of genes on what is usually the ‘silent’, or inactivated, X chromosome [...] Assuming these results can be confirmed in humans,