Because biomedi-cal researchers tend to study only male rodents, they may miss important differences between the sexes that could help explain, for example, why women are more prone to autoimmune diseases than men are (Science, 26 March, p. 1571). Arthur Arnold, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the editor-in-chief of the new open-access journal Biology of Sex Differences.
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