At noon every day, levels of genes and proteins throughout your body are drastically different than they are at midnight. Disruptions to this 24-hour cycle of physiological activity are why jet lag or a bad night's sleep ...
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The older we get, the more likely our circadian rhythms are disrupted. For example, blood pressure (BP), not only tends to increase but as well become more irregular. Luckily, as we show in our research, melatonin helps to ...
May 17, 2016
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A pioneering study of worldwide sleep patterns combines math modeling, mobile apps and big data to parse the roles society and biology each play in setting sleep schedules.
May 6, 2016
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What's that old saying about Mussolini? Say what you will but he made the trains run on time. Well, the suprachiasmatic nucleus—SCN for short—makes everything in the body run on time. The SCN is the control center for ...
May 3, 2016
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A 24-hour exposure to bright blue light before surgery reduces inflammation and organ damage at the cellular level in a mouse model, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Apr 25, 2016
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We all appreciate the importance of getting enough sleep. Not doing so affects our ability to function effectively, something that becomes painfully apparent during shift-work, especially night shifts. Now research suggests ...
Apr 19, 2016
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A new study from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey, published today in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) has found that shifted sleep-wake cycles affect men and ...
Apr 18, 2016
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According to a popular saying, 'timing is everything.' For acute myeloid leukemia (AML), that adage may be true. In a paper published in the April 7 issue of Cell, an international team led by researchers from the Broad Institute ...
Apr 8, 2016
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An internal clock within the kidneys plays an important role in maintaining balance within the body, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
Apr 7, 2016
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When one eats may be as important as what one eats. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Germany, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that the ...
Mar 16, 2016
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