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They interact in specific ways to regulate transcription of about 15 percent of the genome over a 24-hour period. These clocks, found in cells and tissues throughout the body, are composed of specialized sets of proteins. It builds on decades of research into biological clocks, which help to control sleeping and waking, rest and activity, fluid balance, body temperature, cardiac rate, oxygen consumption, and even the secretions of endocrine glands. This work, published recently in the journal eLIFE, comes from Carrie Partch, University of California, Santa Cruz, and her colleagues at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and the University of California, San Diego. They also may lead to new treatments designed to reset the clock in people struggling with sleep disorders, jet lag, or night-shift work. These new atomic-level details, shared from fruit flies to humans, may help to explain how more subtle clock variations predispose people to follow different sleep patterns.

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Why is this? An NIH-funded team has some new clues based on evidence showing how a molecular вЂњswitchвЂќ wired into the biological clocks of extreme early risers leads them to operate on a daily cycle of about 20 hours instead of a full 24-hour, or circadian (Latin for вЂњabout a dayвЂќ), cycle. Others are night owls who canвЂ™t seem to get to bed until well after midnight and prefer to sleep in. Some people are early risers, wide awake at the crack of dawn. Francis Collins Caption: Casein kinase 1 (CK1) regulates PERIOD, a core protein in the biological clock of people.Д¬redit: Clarisse Ricci, University of California, San Diego Early Riser or Night Owl? New Study May Help to Explain the Difference

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