Sentences with phrase «new circadian gene»
The authors characterize a new circadian gene that they name Chrono.
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According to a new study, one reason may be that the genes that set the body clock are intimately connected to our immune cells: Messing with the circadian rhythm leads to messed - up immune cells.
Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Michael Young of The Rockefeller University in New York City share the prize equally for their work on how several genes work together to control the basic circadian clock, encoding proteins that build up during the night and are broken down during the day.
Some sleep disorders may be tied to specific genetic variants in the genes underlying the circadian rhythms, which may lead to new ways of treating those disorders.
In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»
According to the article, new research continues to «add to the growing recognition that our metabolisms are primed by the circadian machinery written in our genes, and that discord between the two can wreak havoc on our systems.»