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Lab-life: the afternoon siesta of the fruit fly
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Break submission by Edward Green, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marie Curie Intra European Fellow, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
‘The early bird catches the worm’; it’s a simple enough idiom that we’ve all heard. But to a circadian biologist – a scientist studying 24 hour rhythms – that idiom leads to all manner of further questions: how does the bird know when to get up, are there early worms that escape the bird, and why aren’t all birds early? It’s a question we can all relate to: why are some people early risers, others night owls, and teenagers stuck in bed till midday? (read the Break on TheScienceBreaker)





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