Artificial light at night disrupts cell division

Just one 'pulse' of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of Haifa-Oranim Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology along with Prof. Charalambos P. Kyriacou of the University of Leicester. 'Damage to cell division is characteristic of cancer, and it is therefore important to understand the causes of this damage,' notes Dr Ben-Shlomo. The study has been published in the journal Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics...

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