Stress is not simply a response to acute stressful episodes. It occurs in the brain where a natural rhythmic pattern regulates the stress system of our body, even on a calm day. This rhythmic pattern ...

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Scientists recreate the world’s simplest biological clock in a test tube, revealing how genes switch on and off across the day.

Our circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being, keeping our 24-hour biological cycles in sync with ...

The circadian clock is fundamental to healthy metabolism and is determined by a central pacemaker in the brain. Peripheral clocks are found in almost all organs and are set to the central clock by ...

As more and more research highlights the role our body's internal clock, known as the circadian rhythm, may have in everything from developing dementia, to driving weight gain to promoting tumor ...

The study, published in the journal Nature Metabolism, uncovers a liver metabolic process as a body clock-linked regulator of ...