from the we-get-blamed-for-everything dept.
A research team led by a Northwestern University scientist has discovered that male animals, through their invisible chemical "essence," prime female animals for reproduction but with the unfortunate side effect of also hastening females' aging process.
"The male signals trigger the female to 'go for it'—to put more effort into reproduction—but then the body suffers," said Ilya Ruvinsky, of the department of molecular biosciences at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "There is a fine balance between reproduction and body maintenance, and this balance can be tipped by the male. We now are starting to tease apart this complexity."
Using the tiny transparent roundworm C. elegans, a well-established model for biomedical research, Ruvinsky and Erin Z. Aprison identified two distinct signals produced by males that affect female reproduction. The females sense the signals and respond by altering their physiology.
Children usually get the blame for female aging, but it looks like males might be the original culprits.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @04:54AM
It's called "ram effect".
Having rams around can push ewes to go into season.
I'm glad they figured out some of the chemical pathways for their publication, but the summary paints it as being a lot more revolutionary than it seems at face value.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 14 2016, @07:11AM
> It's called "ram effect".
Such crude way of expressing oneself.
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday September 14 2016, @08:46AM
Having rams around can push
So that's why they're called rams?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:40PM
> It's called "ram effect".
I would perhaps call it "memcached effect". An effect on the design of an entire system when memory becomes big enough that large data sets fit in memory instead of on disk.
It causes females to want to either 'go for it', or to run away to change the subject from geek stuff.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @02:18PM
I think it's an unfortunate and all-too-common blind spot in science to have to "revolutionarily" rediscover something already known to or implied by folk wisdom, which it rarely ever bothers to consult or take seriously but could have offered a leg-up in understanding things if accounted for and looked into sooner.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:07AM
Do we call little worms "children"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:11AM
Lesbians live forever.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:35AM
> Lesbians live forever.
But they aren't very happy about it. [psychologytoday.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:44AM
semen-is-antidepressant
That's why gay men are so gay, darling!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 14 2016, @09:51AM
So, you're saying they'd be happier if they'd just suck a dick?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 14 2016, @07:12AM
They are their own karma?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:34AM
A guy who marries statistically extends his lifespan.
A gal who marries statistically decreases hers.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:58AM
The data doesn't marry your hypothesis. Married men die earlier than married women.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday September 14 2016, @07:00AM
That's because, before marriage, a man yearns for the women he loves.
After marriage, the Y becomes silent.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 14 2016, @07:46AM
That statement doesn't contradict the statements in the post you replied to (note that I have no idea whether those statements are true). If all the statements are true, then the order is:
lifetime(unmarried men) lifetime (married men) lifetime(married women) lifetime(unmarried women)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday September 14 2016, @09:30AM
I am guessing you wanted to use < but html ate it.
unmarried men are what we call "bums"
married men are what we call "oppressor/privileged"
married women are what we call "poor"
unmarried women are what we call "empowered/inspiration"
May be the society's attitude has got something to do with it?
On Topic:
Aren't unmarried women having more sex than married women? I would hope unmarried women to be surrounded by more men than married women.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:05PM
Probably the married women just don't tell about it as openly.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:15PM
You guessed correct.
I'd consider it an improvement if any < which the software doesn't recognize as part of an allowed tag would be automatically transformed into < instead of removed.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @04:19PM
So what? The GP post never compares men to women. It compares one type of man to another type of man and then one type of women to another type of women. It is invalid to infer any cross male and female stats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @06:30PM
The study [google.com] I'm citing is from Harvard.
If you have a beef, it's with them. [harvard.edu]
...and all of you guys missed the obvious chance to deliver the punch line:
They don't live longer, it just SEEMS like it.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @06:39PM
...and the Fortune quote of the day currently is:
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -- Dumas
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @06:33AM
Francis! This is all Francis' fault. He is a male. He does this to females, even if he doesn't know it. (Adding to list of things Francis doesn't know: index now at 1,364.) Snow, however, has no effect. And Ethanol_fueled burns without leaving a residuum. So sad.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday September 14 2016, @10:02AM
both males and females will age regardless if they are together, apart, have children or not. the real culprit is entropy! #EntropyMyAss (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:50PM
I volunteer to act as a case study and assist to reproductively age numerous nubile young females in the pursuit of science. Don't thank me -- science is thankless and self-sacrifice is not always rewarded. I believe I will be able to muster the courage to perservere provided the specicmens do not age too badly due to regular use.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @08:15PM
You'll be thrilled when you meet the females who volunteered for this study.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 14 2016, @09:28PM
I BATHE IN FEMALE WRINKLES
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(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:42AM
No wonder she looks so old and haggard at times... Bill's "essence" must be taking a toll on her body. We all know Bill have an overactive libido don't we - wink wink!
She's not of ill health folks!