Scientists Lior Appelbaum and David Zada in Israel publish new proof that sleep serves to help our brains repair damage.
Their study, published in the journal Nature, used genetically engineering transparent zebra fish with colorful chemical tags attached to chromosomes in their neurons, and found that chromosomes constantly change shape to repair DNA damage, but move twice as much during sleep as when awake.
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I am not sure that I would make the leap from zebra fish to humans but hey, I’sm not a neuroscientist.
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