Rebecca Shansky in the Press
Guess Which Sex Behaves More Erratically (at Least in Mice)
The new research is “tipping all of these assumptions about sex differences and the influence of hormones on their head,” said Rebecca Shansky, a behavioral neuroscientist at Northeastern University and a co-author of the new study.
Gender bias toward men in patent awards results in less biomedical innovation for women, study suggests
Women are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences and also face systemic barriers and a lack of support to commercialize their ideas. “There’s multiple levels at which the barriers need to be broken down in order to get real equity,” said Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who was not involved with the study.
The Cut
More! Female! Mice!
By skipping over females, researchers may be missing important information about how hormonal shifts could interact with our medicines, said Dr. Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist and associate professor at Northeastern University. “The excuse that I would hear over and over again is that the estrous cycle” — the mouse version of a menstrual cycle — […]
Scientific American
Biomedical Research Falls Short at Factoring in Sex and Gender
Rebecca M. Shansky, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University.
Lab rats are overwhelmingly male, and that’s a problem
“It’s up to the journal and the scientists who (peer) review for the journals to start holding people accountable and say this doesn’t deserve to be a high profile paper because it only studied males. It can’t be that impactful if we don’t know the answer to the science question in females,” said Rebecca Shansky, […]
Five things you need to know today, and biotech’s ‘other’ problem with lack of women
The podcast cites the work of Northeastern University Rebecca Shanskey, who I found cited in a story on the university website from May 2019.
Gizmodo
A Promising Brain-Regenerating Drug May Only Work for Women and Babies, a Mouse Study Suggests
Earlier this May, scientist Rebecca Shansky of Northeastern University in the US city of Boston wrote about the ongoing need to stamp out sex bias in medical research, starting with lab animals, and the harm it can cause.
Gizmodo
A Promising Brain-Regenerating Drug May Only Work for Women and Babies, a Mouse Study Suggests
Earlier this May, scientist Rebecca Shansky of Northeastern University in Boston wrote about the ongoing need to stamp out sex bias in medical research, starting with lab animals, and the harm it can cause.
Women get Alzheimer’s way more than men—and stress could help explain why
Rebecca Shansky, a Northeastern University psychologist who studies stress in female rats, was struck by this as well.
Science News
Female rats face sex bias too
“The idea that women are primarily driven by ovarian hormones [was] a narrative put in place intentionally in the Victorian era,” says Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston. “That has also infiltrated the way we think about female animals” in science.
