https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As anticipation builds for the longer days that follow this weekend's switch to daylight savings time, the moment seemed ideal to turn to one of the nation's leading circadian-rhythms researchers, UC Santa Cruz's Carrie Partch. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-biological-clocks-circadian-rhythms.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:03:05 EST news660466982 In a recent article published in the February issue of the journal Sensors, researchers at Texas A&M University have reported a technology that might help people with gout disease monitor their symptoms better. They said their minimally invasive biosensor system may hold the key to future point-of-care therapies centered around personal management of gout, and possibly other conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-optical-biosensor-round-the-clock-gout.html Tue, 12 May 2020 03:14:35 EDT news508472069 The enzyme Nocturnin, which governs daily tasks such as fat metabolism and energy usage, works in an entirely different way than previously thought, reported a team of researchers at Princeton University. The newly discovered mechanism reveals the molecular link between the enzyme's daily fluctuations and its energy-regulating role in the body, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-circadian-clock-fat-metabolism-linked.html Thu, 30 May 2019 05:00:03 EDT news478408818 The time has come again when many of us switch our clocks from summer or daylight-saving time back to winter time. And the usual confusion sets in, is it an hour forwards or back? Why do we need to change the time at all? Indeed, EU member states have been asked if they would like to simply skip daylight saving time. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-clock.html Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:10:02 EDT news459765836 Construction is underway on a "10,000 year clock". This is a clock that will have a year hand, a century hand, and a cuckoo that comes out every 1,000 years. The American inventor Danny Hillis wrote about the idea in 1995, and, thanks to a US$42m investment from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the clock is now being installed inside a Texas mountain. The aim of building a clock designed to work for 10 millennia, Bezos says, is to encourage long-term thinking. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-year-clock-built-mountain-years.html Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:11:03 EST news439121062