Who's stronger, man or woman?

HOUSTON -

It's a question that goes back to the beginning of time -- who's stronger, men or women? It's something that Brian Egwuatu and his wife, Kara Egwuatu, battle over all the time.

"Oh, Brian and I make everything a competition, everything; working out, driving home from work, running at the track," Kara Egwuatu said.

"Definitely, men are stronger, there is no doubt," Brian Egwuata said.

But now landmark research being conducted at The Texas Heart Institute by Dr. Doris Taylor and her team is proving for the first time that women, from their stem cells to their hearts, have got men beat big-time.

"There's a difference in the underlying structure of every organ, the blood vessels, the liver, the kidney, the lungs," Taylor said.

She said you can actually see the difference.

Take hearts, for example. Taylor took male and female pig hearts, nearly identical to the human heart, and stripped them of all cells so she could study their basic structure. She found the female hearts were taught and toned, plump andmuscular looking, like a picture of a heart you would see drawn in a book.

The male hearts were much softer, loose, thin-walled and generally kind of limp looking.

Holding up a male pig heart, Taylor said, "Look at this, it looks like an old, bad sock."

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Who's stronger, man or woman?