circadian rhythm

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to a trio of researchers, Jeffrey C. Hall of the University of Maine, Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, and Michael W. Young of Rockefeller University, who identified the molecular mechanism controlling the circadian rhythm.
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Statement on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

10/02/2017 01:50 PM EDT

The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University and Michael W. Young of Rockefeller University in New York for "their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm." The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided support to the research of these three researchers, including grants from the Office of International Science and Engineering for Hall and Robash and ... 

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