Gene variation that lets people get by on fewer zees transferred to create insomniac mice
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 21:56
in Biology & Nature
(SALT LAKE CITY) -- 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.