Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Biological Clocks Orchestrate Behavioral Rhythms by Sending Signals Downstream, Scientists Find (Revson Foundation)
Different groups of neurons program biological clocks to orchestrate our behaviors by sending messages in a unidirectional manner downstream, a team of biologists has found.
The study, which appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience, focused on clock neurons in the fruit fly Drosophila and sought to understand the larger role of biological clocks—also known as circadian rhythms. . .