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Gene variation that lets people get by on fewer zees transferred to create insomniac mice
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A University of Utah sleep expert has joined with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University to identify a genetic variation in humans, which the scientists also developed in ...
Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created a line of fruit flies that may someday help shed light on the mechanisms that cause insomnia in humans. The flies, which only get a small fraction ...
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Insomniac fish shed light on the molecular basis of sleep disorders
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Oct 16, 2007 |
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Sleep disorders are common and poorly understood. In humans, narcolepsy is a sleep disorder associated with sleepiness, abnormal dreaming, paralysis and insomnia. Neuropeptides called hypocretins are implicated ...
Searching for shut eye: Study identifies possible sleep gene
Jul 29, 2008 |
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While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don't get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep. Researchers at the University ...
Code writers along for the ride for Google's next 'wave'
Aug 12, 2009 |
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By Sunday morning, the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group's "campout" made part of the Googleplex in Mountain View look a bit like a college dorm after a couple of all-nighters.
10 unusual gadgets and gifts for geeks
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Nerds. Geeks. Fanboys. Whatever you call them, the comics aficionados, movie buffs and videogame enthusiasts who dwell amongst us can be really hard to shop for. But it gets dramatically worse this time of year, when everyone ...
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