Female Chromosomes Offer Resilience to Alzheimer’s
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 10:11
in Health & Medicine
Women with Alzheimer’s live longer than men with the disease, and scientists at UC San Francisco now have evidence from research in both humans and mice that this is because they have genetic protection from the ravages of the disease. By virtue of having a second X chromosome, women get two “doses” of a protective […]