Unusual comparison nets new sleep loss marker
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 22:30
in Biology & Nature
For years, medical researchers have used what they have learned in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans. They have now reversed the process in a new article, taking what they find in humans back to the flies and gaining new insight into humans as a result: identification of a human gene that is more active after sleep deprivation.