What Makes Us Tick?Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young all received a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm

The existence of an internal biological clock has been known since ancient times, but the inner workings of that clock —what makes life on earth tick—remained a mystery until the three American geneticists investigated the clock’s inner workings and explained how plants, mammals, and humans adapt their circadian rhythm to synchronize with the Earth’s rotation.
Source: European Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research