Discovered in the 1970s, circadian clocks are essential for the regulation of biological time in most cells in the human body. These internal mechanisms adjust biological processes to a 24-hour cycle, ...

Two complementary research articles reveal that central and peripheral circadian clocks coordinate to regulate the daily activity of skin and muscles. The coordination between the two clocks (central ...

A new study highlights how both neuronal and peripheral tissues become disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease. A team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine (TX, USA), the Jan and Dan Duncan ...

The findings, published in Neuron, improve the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. “It’s more [of] an exploratory study, but it creates a lot of useful information that can be mined,” ...

Immune responses rely on the efficient movement of immune cells within the complex and geometrically unpredictable three-dimensional tissues that make up our bodies. Recent research by the Sixt group ...