14 related news articles for Intersex conditions

Men and women are different. There is sex bias in disease prevalence, susceptibility, and severity. Response to drugs is also different.…  Read more

Hudson Institute has been successful in the NHMRC Ideas Grant round. Our researchers have been awarded four NHMRC Ideas Grants, totalling almost $4.1 million.…  Read more

Changes in a gene linked to skeletal problems in humans could also be important for disorders of sex development (DSD), according to new research.…  Read more

Congratulations to Professor Kate Loveland and her team who have been awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant to further her research in male fertility.…  Read more

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily associated with an inability to initiate and control voluntary movement.…  Read more

For her cutting-edge study that sheds more light on how a baby’s sex is determined, PhD student Brittany Croft has received a top international accolade.…  Read more

Boy or girl? Sometimes the answer is not straightforward.…  Read more

A discovery has been made about how a baby’s sex is determined – it’s not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves a ’regulator’ that increases or decreases the activity of genes which decide if we become male or female.…  Read more

A new study has uncovered a link between being transgender and changes in genes that process the sex hormones estrogen and androgen, revealing a possible biological basis for gender dysphoria.…  Read more

Hudson Institute has had outstanding success in the recent National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellowship and Development Grant announcements.…  Read more

Hudson Institute researchers are closer to understanding the fundamental processes that make embryos develop as male, helping the 1 in 5000 babies that are born intersex.…  Read more

A study led by Professor Vincent Harley and Dr Daniel Bird examining the genetic causes of intersex, where a person is born with characteristics that are not clearly male or female…  Read more

Researchers from Hudson Institute and Monash University’s School of Clinical Sciences have received a $58,000 Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation grant to help understand the sex-specific genetic causes for why men are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than women.…  Read more

Hudson Institute sex genetics experts Professor Vincent Harley and Dr Stefan Bagheri-Fam have led an international study which identifies a new rare disorder that forms another piece of the puzzle in understanding why some people are born intersex.…  Read more