Biology of Sex Differences

Aims and scope

Biology of Sex Differences considers manuscripts on all aspects of the effects of sex on biology and disease. Sex has profound effects on physiology and the susceptibility to disease. The function of cells and organs depends on their sex, determined by the interplay among the genome and biological and social environments. The study of sex differences is a discipline in itself, with its own concepts and methods that apply across tissues.

Biology of Sex Differences is the official journal of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, and a publication of the Society for Women's Health Research.

Editor's profile

Jane Reckelhoff, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Reckelhoff is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Director of the Women’s Health Research Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. 

We are excited to have Dr Reckelhoff joining us as Editor-in Chief on the Biology of Sex Differences given her prominent position as a sex differences researcher and considerable editorial experience on journals such as Gender Medicine, Clinical Therapeutics, and the American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Arthur P Arnold, Founding Editor

Arthur Arnold is a Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, and Director of the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of the Brain Research Institute, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

 "Sex differences occur in many tissues and diseases. Biology of Sex Differences serves as a forum for discussion of the forces that make females and males different, and the downstream pathways that are affected by sex-specific forces. This information will be critical for discovery of factors, often more prevalent in one sex than the other, that alleviate disease."