Gene variation that lets people get by on fewer zees transferred to create insomniac mice

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

A University of Utah sleep expert has joined with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University to identify a genetic variation in humans, which the scientists also developed in mouse models, that allows a rare number of people to require less sleep than others.

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