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Time Travels: A 40-Year Journey from Drosophila's Clock Mutants to Human Circadian Disorders (Nobel Lecture)†
Prof. Michael W. Young,
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Prof. Michael W. Young
Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 USA
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Michael W. Young,
Corresponding Author
Prof. Michael W. Young
Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 USA
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Copyright© The Nobel Foundation 2017. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture.
Graphical Abstract
Living organisms have a biological clock that helps to prepare our physiology for the fluctuations of the day. Key research to elucidate the biological mechanisms of this regular adaptation, referred to as the circadian rhythm, is described by M. W. Young in his Nobel lecture.
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