Sentences with phrase «circadian clock research»

Circadian clock research has been ongoing for many decades and has led to the discovery of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm, which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Research suggests that aligning our internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, with the natural world doesn't just make us feel better — it may help give our metabolisms a boost.

The disruption of a person's circadian rhythm — their 24 - hour biological clock — has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to new University of Georgia research.

«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»

«This study adds to an important body of work that has shown the ubiquity of a circadian clock across species, including humans, and its role in metabolic regulation in cells, organs, and organisms,» said Dr. Michael Sesma, Program Director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

«The results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

Other research has shown that caffeine affects the circadian clock in animals such as fruit flies.

Research on the circadian clock will affect our understanding of these diseases, Pagano noted.

This research is important, however, because it not only shows us what might be going wrong in folks with circadian - related disorders, but also helps us to understand how we can manipulate peripheral clocks to help these people.»

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

«This research shows that exposure to environmental toxins may be depressing the function of our circadian clock, the disruption of which is linked to increased rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and depression,» said Jennifer Hurley, an assistant professor of biological sciences, a member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and senior author on this research.

To test whether adaptation to high - salt environments affects this functional circadian clock, Coldsnow then performed a similar experiment with the five populations of Daphnia produced during her earlier research.

Sleep scientists have long recognized the two processes of sleep drive and the circadian clock, said Christopher Davis, of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University - Spokane.