Teen Sleep and Grades: Why Biology Alone Cannot Explain the Gap
A new commentary argues that sleep duration and chronotype are linked to adolescent academic outcomes but do not alone explain ...
Tag: Circadian Rhythm
The Liver Keeps Its Own Clock: Late-Night Meals Linked to Fatty Liver Disease and Cirrhosis
A large analysis of nearly 200,000 health professionals found that people who reported eating late at night had a 20 ...
Half a Million Sleep Reports Reveal When Our Moods Rise and Fall
A study of 468,092 Lumosity users reveals that mood peaks in the afternoon, bottoms out overnight, follows a U-shaped curve ...
Precision Chronotherapy Aims to Keep Young Adult Sleep Clocks Aligned for Good
A new letter in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine argues that treating delayed sleep timing in emerging adults requires ...
Chemotherapy Drug Speeds Ovarian Aging by Breaking the Body’s Cellular Clock, Study Finds
A new rat study shows the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide accelerates ovarian aging by depleting riboflavin kinase, destabilizing FAD-dependent cryptochrome clock ...
Bamboo Borer Beetles Keep a Strict Afternoon Schedule for Emergence and Flight
New field and laboratory research shows that the bamboo borer Dinoderus minutus emerges around 14:00 and takes flight around 16:00, ...
Sleeping Pill Fails to Lengthen Daytime Sleep for Night Shift Workers in Rigorous Trial
A randomized controlled trial found that the dual orexin receptor antagonist lemborexant did not improve daytime sleep duration in night ...
Ancient Alga Keeps Beating Its Daily Rhythm Even When the Sun Never Sets
The charophyte alga Chara braunii shows circadian branchlet movements that persist under dim continuous light but are suppressed at higher ...
Melatonin May Offer a Surprising Shield Against Skin Cancer, Review Suggests
A new review in the Archives of Dermatological Research proposes that melatonin, through antioxidant, DNA-repair, and circadian mechanisms, may serve ...
Loss of circadian regulation allows for increase in glucose production during lung cancer
New study identifies possible therapeutic target to suppress cancer cell growth Irvine, CA - June 25, 2021 - New research ...
Melatonin in mice: there’s more to this hormone than sleep
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science and the RIKEN BioResource Research Center in Japan, along with collaborators at ...
Like night and day: Animal studies may not translate to humans without time considerations
In a recent survey of published animal studies, researchers at West Virginia University found disregarding the animals' circadian rhythms can ...
Kids who sleep with their pet still get a good night’s rest: Concordia research
Hillary Rowe and Jennifer McGrath say their study upends common beliefs about sharing the bed with four-legged friends There is ...
Resetting the biological clock by flipping a switch
Credit: Issey Takahashi The biological clock is present in almost all cells of an organism. As more and more evidence ...
New study shows flies mutant for schizophrenia-associated genes respond well to anti-psychotics
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have successfully treated flies displaying behavioural problems linked to newly discovered schizophrenia-associated genes in humans, ...
Successful DNA replication in cyanobacteria depends on the circadian clock
Cyanobacteria whose circadian clock had been misaligned fail to finish DNA replication after dark, with possible implications for understanding how ...
The secret life of bee signals can communicate colony health
Recording the electrostatic energy of honeybee hives offers a 'canary in the coalmine' look into ecosystem threats and environmental conditionsCredit: ...
How behavioral rhythms are fine-tuned in the brain
Researchers led by a team at Kanazawa University report that vasopressin neurons in the brain's circadian rhythm control center are ...
Chemo for glioblastoma may work better in morning than evening
Study indicates timing of chemotherapy could improve treatment for deadly brain cancerCredit: Washington University School of MEdicine An aggressive type ...
Salk Professors Satchin Panda and Tatyana Sharpee honored with endowed chairs
Credit: Salk Institute. LA JOLLA--(February 25, 2021) Professors Satchin Panda and Tatyana Sharpee have both been recognized for their contributions ...
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