News tagged with biological rhythms


Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.


Interdisciplinary volume on biological rhythms serves as both primer and in-depth resource

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A variety of organisms—from bacteria and fungi to plants and animals—have biological rhythms, where the timing and duration of fundamental biological processes is naturally adjusted to allow them to adapt and survive, even ...





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The clock watcher

The clock watcher: Circadian rhythms research is shedding light on the causes of disease and aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embedded in our genes is a "clock" that regulates when we sleep, when we are awake and when we eat. This human clock manages what are known as circadian rhythms, 24-hour biological cycles ...


Study reveals new data on circadian rhythms

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fluctuations in light intensity allow restoring the regularity of circadian rhythms. This is the main conclusion of the work carried out by Javier Buceta, group leader of The SiMBioSys Group (Theoretical and In Silico Modelling ...


Human Bone Lamellae in 3D Orange on Black Background No Specs

NYU dental professor discovers biological clock

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created Apr 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (57) | comments 0

Why do rats live faster and die younger than humans? A newly discovered biological clock provides tantalizing clues.


Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days - new research by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice. ...


Disturbed rest, activity linked to mortality in older men

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

It appears that disrupted rest and activity rhythms are associated with increased mortality rates among older men, according to new University of Minnesota research.


Gene screen reveals 2-way communication between common biological pathways and body's daily clock

Genes controlling insulin can alter timing of biological clock

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the genes that regulate insulin also alter the timing of the circadian clock, a new study has found.


Molecular partnership controls daily rhythms, body metabolism

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates ...


Glow worms glimmer on cue

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created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researcher and lecturer Dr David Merritt has discovered Tasmanian cave glow-worms are energy conservationists: they switch their lights off at night-time.


Chemotherapy for breast cancer is associated with disruption of sleep-wake rhythm in women

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A study in the Sept.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the sleep-wake activity rhythms of breast cancer patients are impaired during the administration of chemotherapy. Results indicate that the first cycle of chemot ...


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Biological clocks of insects could lead to more effective pest control

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that the circadian rhythms or biological "clocks" in some insects can make them far more susceptible to pesticides at some times of the day instead of ...



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