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Neuroscientist, once a woman, says he saw gender bias firsthand

By Marcella Bombardieri
Globe Staff / July 13, 2006

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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- After Stanford neuroscientist Ben A. Barres gave a talk at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., some years back, a colleague is said to have overheard another scientist remarking that ``Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's." (Full article: 1103 words)

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