Nobel prizes 2017: everything you need to know about circadian rhythms

The Nobel prize for medicine or physiology was awarded for research on the body ’s clock, which is at work in all multicellular life. But what exactly is it?In the age ofinternational travel, shift work andpersonal gadgets that stave off sleep, the award of the Nobel prize for research on the body ’s clock, or circadian rhythms, could hardly be more timely.First identified in fruit flies, the tiny molecular components of the clock are at work in all multicellular life, humans included. The internal clock is now regarded as a key feature of life on Earth, one that wired the rotation of the planet into the fabric of our cells over millions of years of evolution.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Nobel prizes Science People in science Science prizes Medical research Biology Source Type: news