Sleep refreshes the brain and the body by inducing protective changes in gene expression. Sleep disturbance triggers a stress response that also turns on protective genes. It was unclear how sleep or sleep deprivation can ...
Biotechnology
May 5, 2022
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Sleep deprived Australian magpies are tired and unmotivated, just like humans, according to new research from La Trobe University in Melbourne which has found that, after a poor night's sleep, the common black and white songbird ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2022
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The first study ever to examine sleeping behavior in a wild group of primates has challenged a central tenet of sleep science: that we must make up for lost sleep. Even after sleeping poorly, wild baboons still spent time ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2022
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The number of unowned cats in urban areas of the UK is estimated to be 247,429 according to a modeling study published in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that urban areas with higher human density and deprivation ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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Researchers have tracked flies' ability to interpret information while asleep, showing which parts of the brain remain 'awake'.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 29, 2021
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A comprehensive study from Uppsala University demonstrates that socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic effects on higher education and abstract reasoning. The paper illustrates how genes play a greater role in educational ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2021
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Going on holiday can affect shift workers on the level of gene function: a new study indicates that resting during a holiday period restored functions associated with DNA regulation in shift workers suffering from sleep deprivation.
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2021
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When driving across country, people can only make it so far before stopping off to rest. Likewise, most migratory songbirds must make stops during their long-distance journeys to sleep along the way. Now, researchers have ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2019
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A tidepool crustacean's ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more ways of dealing with hypoxic environments than had been thought.
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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A study by the University of Liverpool reveals new insights into how cells respond to oxygen deprivation.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2019
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