Sentences with phrase «body clocks entrained»

(Inside Science)-- This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of American researchers who discovered the molecular basis behind the ability of living organisms to keep their internal body clocks entrained to a 24 - hour cycle.

In an apparent ironic twist to this year's prize, the quarry claimed by countless hours of sleepless toil is itself fundamental to a good night's sleep: the molecular basis of circadian rhythms — those genes and proteins whose interactions underlie the ability of us living organisms to keep our internal body clocks entrained to a 24 - hour cycle.