Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Scientists have found that mice feel 36% less pain when a male researcher is in the room, versus a female researcher. The rodents are also less stressed out. The effect appears to be due to scent molecules that male mammals (including humans, dogs, and cats) have been emitting for eons. The finding could help explain why some labs have trouble replicating the results of others, and it could cause a reevaluation of decades of animal experiments: everything from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math. Male odor could even influence human clinical trials."

Comments

Re:36% less pain

[alen]

in the army we used to laugh at people who complained of not feeling well or pain

"my pu55y hurts"

interesting how so many

[rewindustry]

seem to feel threatened by this information.

plastic footed metal beetle space bugs, smell of laboratories, and live on soap.

is good to be human, in the information age, and i do hope these strange offspring of the petrochemical age die off soon..

yes, this is flame bait, however i am making the point that it is also further evidence that we have a problem, and this is news that matters, however many cannot handle that information.

Re:interesting how so many

[rubycodez]

sounds like gay rat talk. your place or his?

Re:Captain Obvoius

[Nephandus]

Well, knowing you're at a socially mandated disadvantage by their presence, and any one could go psycho-bitch to various degrees of impunity leaving you with no safe recourse. I'm built and mean looking (thanks to Hollywood's image indoctrination and my facial structure). Men generally don't start shit with me, though they'll often whisper "serial-killer" when I first walk, stand, or sit in their vicinity. Women outright target me. They get in my face and call me creepy, while clearly expecting me to leave her holy presence dutifully shamed. Hell, the older fatter ones get rapey up to what would be legally punishable sexual assault, were it gender reversed. No one cares. That's pretty intimidating. Ironically, generally worse than cops, and they're postured at me in pack and grabbed guns while glaring at me walk down a sidewalk or out of college's main exit.