Chapel Hill, NC — In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine, and his colleagues ha…
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Breakthrough in worm research has implications for human disease studies
RENO, Nev. — It’s just a worm, a tiny soil-dwelling nematode worm — but the implications are big for biomedicine and circadian biology as shown in a recent study authored by University of Nevada, Reno researcher Alexander van der Linden. The art…
Biologists discover biochemical link between biological clock and diabetes
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.
Their discovery, detailed…
Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock for nocturnal activity
PHILADELPHIA — – An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the activity of traditionally nocturnal monkeys as…