Category Biology/Biotechnology

Students sometimes pull an all-nighter to prepare for an exam. However, research has shown that sleep deprivation is bad for your memory. Now, University of Groningen neuroscientist Robbert Havekes discovered that what you learn while being sleep deprived is not necessarily lost, it is just difficult to recall.

Together with his team, he has found a way to make this “hidden knowledge” accessible again days after studying while sleep-deprived using optogenetic approaches, and the human-approved asthma drug...

Using a mouse model, Japanese researchers unleash the likely mechanism of action of Sarunashi juice on lung cancer development. Among all the cancers, lung cancer has one of the lowest five-year survival rates. Smoking tobacco and using tobacco-based products is known to heavily contribute to the development of lung cancer. It is a clinically established fact that the active ingredients in various fruits minimize the risk of chronic diseases including cancer. “Sarunashi” (Actinidia arguta) is an edible fruit cultivated in Japan’s Okayama Prefecture. Using a mouse model, researchers from Okayama University led by Dr...

Salk researchers find that timing calorie intake synchronizes circadian rhythms across multiple systems in mice. Scientists show in mice how time-restricted eating influences gene expression across more than 22 regions of the body and brain. The findings have implications for a wide range of health conditions where time-restricted eating has shown potential benefits, including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer.

Numerous studies have shown health benefits of time-restricted eating including increase in l...