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Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study

...frequently pause for quick naps in their vehicles' sleeping berths during cross-country excursions, he said. Wright and his colleagues said further studies are needed to measure the effects of nap interruption and "recovery sleep" in on-call, sleep-deprived individuals. The study also illuminates the challe...

Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores

...added: "Since patients spend a third of their life sleeping and breathing close to a potentially large and varied source of fungi, these findings certainly have important implications for patients with respiratory disease - especially asthma and sinusitis." ...

North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome

...rasitic relatives Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness in Africa, and Leishmania, a parasite spread by sand flies. Higher resolution models of the ribosome structure will be needed to design targeted drugs, Frank said. ...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...ut their computers to work at night while they are sleeping to search the atomic landscape for the lowest energy structure of proteins. To improve protein structure prediction further, Baker's group has also started a distributed computing project that they are hoping will be aided by members of the public. ...

New understanding of jet lag

...r - the biological clock that regulates waking and sleeping cycles - has two parts that fall out of synchrony during light schedule shifts of six hours, the time it takes to fly across the Atlantic. The finding may explain, at least in part, why transmeridian travelers suffer from jet lag, the malaise experi...

Researchers discover new route to hemoglobin synthesis

...hat lead to excessive weight loss and dehydration, sleeping problems and fever. Disruption in the mother-child bonding process has also been reported, and there is an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. In the studies, newborns suffering from NAS were treated with opiates (morphine, methadone, pa...

Opiates Better Than Sedatives For Treating Newborns In Withdrawal

...hat lead to excessive weight loss and dehydration, sleeping problems and fever. Disruption in the mother-child bonding process has also been reported, and there is an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. In the studies, newborns suffering from NAS were treated with opiates (morphine, methadone, pa...

Gene controlling circadian rhythms linked to drug addiction

...erience problems with their circadian cycles - not sleeping as much and becoming more hyperactive - they also found cocaine more rewarding than control mice, demonstrated by their strong preference for the location where the drug was administered. In addition, Clock-deficient mice produced more dopamine than...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...sappeared in the late 1950s. That disease, African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, largely succumbed to... effectiveness in subjects with the early stage of sleeping sickness. Scientists are launching a Phase III trial this summer involving for the first time hundre...

Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced

...ily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms calle...somes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 500,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of whom will die this...

Newly discovered protein an important tool for sleeping sickness research

...ily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms calle...somes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 500,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of whom will die this...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...ged counterparts rebound on the following night by sleeping longer and more deeply. Flies also sleep more in their youth than later in life, when their sleep is fragmented, as with humans. In other studies, the scientists also observed that caffeine has the same stimulating effects on human and fly sleep, an...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...r "about a day") cycle that governs functions like sleeping and waking, rest and activity, fluid balance, body temperature, cardiac output, oxygen consumption and endocrine gland secretion. In their experiments, the researchers measured the animals' body weight as an indicator of response to the anti-cancer ...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...ed drugs are for tropical diseases, such asAfrican sleeping sickness and dengue fever. While patent incentiveshave driven commercial pharmaceutical companies to make Western healthcare the envy of the world, the commercial model only works ifcompanies can sell enough patented products to cover their R&Dco...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...fighting other diseases such as the South American sleeping sickness, Chagas Disease. ...

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