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The digestive system’s rhythms are controlled by body clock genes, as well as lesser-known regulators called noncanonical clock regulators. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine aimed to ...

Most biochemical reactions accelerate as temperature increases, but our daily circadian rhythms, which are underlain by gene regulatory and biochemical networks, remain constant, even as temperatures ...

As sunlight filters through your window each morning, a quiet, powerful rhythm pulses inside your body. This inner clock tells you when to sleep, eat, and wake. It keeps pace with the 24-hour cycle of ...

Our bodies follow a natural 24-hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm that influences everything from sleep to metabolism. While scientists have long known that certain core circadian clock genes ...

Our circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being, keeping our 24-hour biological cycles in sync with light and dark exposure. Disruptions in the rhythms of these clocks, as with ...

Scientists have solved how circadian clocks within cyanobacteria, tiny organisms also known as blue-green algae, are able to precisely control when different genes are turned on and off during the ...

Researchers led by Gen Kurosawa at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan have used theoretical physics to discover how our biological clock ...

Your heart's beat isn't its only pulse, scientists have discovered. The heart's genes -- and the liver's, too -- have rhythms of their own. Every animal has built-in biological clocks that keep the ...