Your body follows a circadian rhythm that influences everything from how well your medications work to the best time for exercise.

Daylight saving time creates a mismatch between the biological clock and the social clock that can have negative effects on ...

Your body possesses an internal clock, the circadian rhythm, that dictates sleep and wake cycles. This biological marvel, ...

It's well-known that neural circuits help synchronize our biological clock with the day-night cycle. But just how exactly do those circuits develop, and can better understanding the process help, for ...

Scientists say the return to "standard time" is good for our health. But the time change can be disruptive and we must also ...

Tweaking the numbers of receptors in a key brain area changes the daily rhythms of rest and wake in mice. In humans and other animals, signals from a central circadian clock in the brain generate the ...

Neurologist Dr. Ptacek explains how "falling back" disrupts the 24-hour circadian clock, affecting mood and performance, with ...

During and after chemotherapy, nearly half of cancer patients endure circadian rhythm disruptions, which worsens treatment side effects. Because the body's primary rhythm pacemaker is in the brain, ...

Bmal2 is a biological clock gene. In an article published in Metabolism, scientists show that mice with the Bmal2 gene ...

Most biochemical reactions accelerate as temperature increases, but our daily circadian rhythms, which are underlain by gene regulatory and biochemical networks, remain constant, even as temperatures ...