News tagged with biological clock

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New pattern in our biological clock overturns long-held theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle

The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Body's circadian rhythm tightly entwined with blood sugar control

Scientists have long struggled to understand the body's biological clock. Its tick-tock wakes us up, reminds us to eat and tells us when to go to bed. But what sets that circadian rhythm?

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers discover compound with potent effects on the biological clock

Using automated screening techniques developed by pharmaceutical companies to find new drugs, researchers from UC San Diego and three other research institutions have discovered a molecule with the most potent effects ever ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The food-energy cellular connection revealed

Our body's activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Biochemical link between biological clock and diabetes discovered

Biologists have found that a key protein that regulates the biological clocks of mammals also regulates glucose production in the liver and that altering the levels of this protein can improve the health of diabetic mice.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Biological clock' could be a key to better health, longer life

If you aren't getting a good, consistent and regular night's sleep, a new study suggests it could reduce your ability to handle oxidative stress, cause impacts to your health, increase motor and neurological ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To Arctic animals, time of day really doesn't matter

In the far northern reaches of the Arctic, day versus night often doesn't mean a whole lot. During parts of the year, the sun does not set; at other times, it's just the opposite. A new study reported online ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Artificial light at night disrupts cell division

Just one "pulse" of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of Haifa-Oranim Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists model 3D structures of proteins that control human clock

In an Early Edition issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 9, 2009, the researchers report that they have been able to determine the molecular structure of a plant photolyase protein that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Biologists Discover Missing Piece of Plant Clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified a key protein that links the morning and evening components of the daily biological clock of plants.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Can clonal plants live forever?

Despite the many cosmetic products, surgical treatments, food supplements, and drugs designed specifically to reverse the biological effects of aging in humans, long-lived aspen clones aren't so lucky. Researchers at the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plants use circadian rhythms to prepare for battle with insects

In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants' pest resistance, Rice University biologists have shown that plants both anticipate daytime raids by hungry insects and make sophisticated preparations to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Biologists discover how biological clock controls cell division in bacteria

A team of biologists has unraveled the biochemistry of how bacteria so precisely time cell division, a key element in understanding how all organisms from bacteria to humans use their biological clocks to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Why the biological clock? Study says aging reduces centromere cohesion, disrupts reproduction

University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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