The body responds to variations in light between the day and night independently of the brain

20:00 EDT 30 May 2019 | AAAS

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) In mice whose body clock -- an internal mechanism located in the brain -- does not work properly, each tissue still knows what time it is and has the capacity to respond to changes in light intensity.The study, published in the journal Cell, is a collaboration between IRB Barcelona and the University of California, Irvine (US).

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