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The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of American scientists for their discoveries on the molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms – in other words, the 24-hour body clock.
According to the Nobel committee's citation, £825,000 prize shared between American scientists Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young were recognised for their discoveries explaining "how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronised with the Earth's revolutions." All three winners are from the US. Hall, 72, has retired but spent the majority of his career at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachussetts, where fellow laureate Rosbash, 73, is still a faculty member. Young, 68, works at Rockefeller University in New York.
The team identified a gene within fruit flies that controls the creatures' daily rhythm, known as the "period" gene. This gene encodes a protein within the cell during the night which then degrades during the day.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:13AM (3 children)
Over-the-counter melatonin: good or bad?
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:42AM
Works for me.
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(Score: 2) by Kymation on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:59AM
One of my friends thinks it's great. It does absolutely nothing to me. Try it and find out which type you are.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:47AM
Changed to cheap capsules with some other sleep aid in it:
- they stink and make me gag before they're in my mouth
- they float, making them hard to swallow
- they give me gurgles (and, TMI, possibly farts ... more data required ... or not)
More expensive pills would be 3 times the price, but I think might be worth it. I'll keep looking for alternatives, as I do believe they do work (at least at 15c per pill it's a Pascal's wager that seems to pay off, 45c/pill does seem a rip-off though).
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:20AM
Take away TV/Internet/phone, make them go to bed at 10 PM, and they're good to go at school tomorrow? Or do none of the above, and they need a later starting time.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:58AM (11 children)
Nice to see they are being recognized for their important work!
Daylight Savings Time is causing health issues and should be abolished!
http://www.businessinsider.com/health-effects-of-daylight-saving-time-2014-10?op=1 [businessinsider.com]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:02AM (10 children)
Standard Time should be abolished. The sun should never set before 5:30pm
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:05AM (2 children)
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:14AM (1 child)
When you have to get to work at a certain time, no, it's the hours o'clock.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:46AM
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:19AM (4 children)
Please detail how your proposal would work for Barrow, Alaska.
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:48AM
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:04AM (2 children)
The sun shouldn't set before August 2, more or less. They do DST up there, amazing...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:07AM (1 child)
One of these things is not like the other.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:20AM
Gee, that's too bad, ain't it?
You're kind of a dope, aren't ya?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:40AM (1 child)
So you like dark mornings?
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:00PM
Mmmmhhhhhh ohhh you've found me out! So dark! But so morningy! Oh yessssssssss!
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:42AM (2 children)
I think that is the current term? Neural plasticity?? While a 24 hour cycle is certainly common, it's not cast in stone.
Years ago I was part of a team supporting a friend in the Bicycle Race Across AMerica (RAAM), where the riders often pedal all night. The crew went on a swing shift -- work two 6 hours shifts in a row, then sleep for 6 hours (in the back of a motorhome). In other words, an 18 hour daily cycle for the 11 days it took to finish the race. It was easy to adapt to at the start, we were all young and there was plenty of pressure from the competition. It had the desired effect of everyone sharing in the difficult night time hours. But afterwords, it took a month or two of waking up at odd times to get back to a more normal schedule. I confirmed this with several others from the team.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:49AM
Folks I know taking multi-day trips in caves end up working a 36 hour day-cycle (18 hours caving, 18 hours sleeping)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:20PM
Article here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_work [wikipedia.org]
Describes different shift schedules in manufacturing, health care, etc. References various studies on productivity and effects on personal health.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:17AM (2 children)
http://www.vocativ.com/366734/how-long-does-it-take-to-win-a-nobel-prize/index.html [vocativ.com]
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:58AM (1 child)
No, indeed. One of the was even Young**
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** to be precise, he was Michael W Young, 68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:27AM
Very good. Now where is the +1 groan mod...
Based on this research: https://www.improbable.com/2014/12/12/study-top-male-comedians-die-earlier/ [improbable.com] you may even live longer. :-)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex