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Sick

Opinion: How your body clock helps determine whether you’ll get ill or not

17 Aug 2016

Akhilesh Reddy (Department of Clinical Neurosciences) discusses how circadian rhythms can affect whether you get the flu.

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Clock

Time of day influences our susceptibility to infection, study finds

15 Aug 2016

We are more susceptible to infection at certain times of the day as our body clock affects the ability of viruses to replicate and spread between...

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Scientists wake up to causes of sleep disruption in Alzheimer’s disease

27 Feb 2014

New research using fruit flies with Alzheimer’s protein finds that the disease doesn’t stop the biological clock ticking, but detaches it from the...

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Arabidopsis Thaliana planted in Laboratory

Researchers show how plants tell the time

23 Oct 2013

Plants use sugars to tell the time of day, according to research published in Nature today.

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Ak, in his laboratory in the Institute of Metabolic Science

'Extreme Sleepover #5’ - a night in the life of a shift-working medic and clock biologist

26 Dec 2011

In the fifth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, medic and scientist Dr Ak Reddy describes the challenges of disrupting our...

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RSC busts

Royal Society announces new Fellows

21 May 2010

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

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Clockwork

Clockwork plants

01 May 2008

How do plants tell the time and the passing of the seasons? Plant scientists are enlisting the help of engineers in their quest to uncover the...

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