Unusual comparison nets new sleep loss marker

For years, Paul Shaw, Ph.D., a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has used what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans. Shaw reverses the process in a new paper, taking what he finds in humans back to the flies and gaining new insight into humans as a result: identification of a human gene that is more active after sleep deprivation.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/wus...