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Your Belly's Very Own Body Clock Friday, May 23, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine
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In a paper published today in Science 1, a team led by Clifford Saper from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts suggests they have found the region of the brain responsible for the sleep-rhythm adjustment. It's been known for a long time that nocturnal creatures such as mice and bats flip their sleep schedules if food is only available during the day. But finding the parts of the brain responsible for the switch has proved difficult. (source: nature.com)
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