Biologists identify genes regulating sleeping and feeding
( University of Massachusetts Medical School ) In the quest to better understand how the brain chooses between competing behaviors necessary for survival, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and New York University have isolated two genes in the fruit fly Drosophila that work together to mediate the need to sleep and the need to eat. The study, which appears in the …
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Gamma interferon wakes-up sleeping stem cells to produce immune system cells to fight invading bacteria
Most of the time, the body’s blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells remain dormant, with just a few producing blood cells and maintaining a balance among the different types.
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