Why working the night shift can pose a cancer risk
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
A handful of large studies of cancer risk factors have found that working the night shift, as nearly 15 percent of Americans do, boosts the chances of developing cancer. MIT biologists have now found a link that may explain this heightened risk. In humans and most other organisms, a circadian clock governed by light regulates […]