News articles tagged with 'circadian'
UCI researchers find new light-sensing mechanism in neurones
— 4 Mar 2011 14:47 | HealthA UC Irvine research team led by Todd C. Holmes has discovered a second form of phototransduction light sensing in cells that is derived from vitamin B2. This discovery may reveal new…
Waking up is hard to do
— 17 Feb 2011 18:54 | HealthNorthwestern University scientists have discovered a new mechanism in the core gears of the circadian clock. They found the loss of a certain gene, dubbed 'twenty-four,' messes up the…
Plant's immune defence revs up for the morning attack
— 4 Feb 2011 15:37 | BiologyTiming is everything in the long-standing arms race between the flowering plant Arabidopsis and Hyaloperonospora, a downy mildew pathogen…
Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time
— 27 Jan 2011 18:02 | BiologyThe mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists…
UNC scientists pinpoint link between light signal and circadian rhythms
— 3 Jan 2011 15:44 | HealthIn 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…
Plant clock gene also works in human cells
— 2 Dec 2010 18:22 | HealthA gene that controls part of the 'tick tock' in a plant's circadian clock has been identified by UC Davis researchers. And not only is the plant gene very similar to one in humans,…
Jet-lagged and forgetful? It's no coincidence
— 25 Nov 2010 18:12 | HealthChronic jet lag alters the brain in ways that cause memory and learning problems long after one's return to a regular 24-hour schedule, according to research by University of California,…
New sleep cycle discovery explains why fatty diets during pregnancy make kids obese
— 23 Nov 2010 17:44 | HealthThe link between sleeping and obesity is drawn tighter as a new research published online in the FASEB Journal study shows that what your mother ate when she was pregnant may make you…
Internal body clock controls fat metabolism, UCI study shows
— 16 Nov 2010 11:27 | HealthUC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms - the internal body clock - regulate fat metabolism. This helps explain why people burn fat more efficiently at certain…
Temperature rhythms keep body clocks in sync, researchers find
— 15 Oct 2010 11:23 | HealthResearchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that controls metabolism,…