sleep, cell & molecular biology

A protein in skeletal muscles helps mice recover from sleep deprivation.

Scientists still don’t know why animals sleep or how to define the ubiquitous behavior.

Metabolic activity, not light, drives the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.

Sleep-like patterns of neural activity are apparent not just at the level of the whole brain, but also in isolated neural circuits.

Evening consumption of the drug leads human circadian rhythms to lag.

Circulating fats and acids drop in people and rats that aren’t getting enough sleep.

Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.

Researchers identify a gene that wakes people up from sleep each day.