Potassium is critical to circadian rhythms in human red blood cells An innovative new study from the University of Surrey and Cambridge’s MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, has uncovered the secrets of the circadian rhythms in red blood cells and identified potassium as the key to unravelling the mystery. Red blood cells, similar to …

Studying circadian rhythms in plants and their pathogens might lead to precision medicine for people At dusk, the leaves of the tamarind tree close, waiting for another dawn. Androsthenes, a ship captain serving under Alexander the Great, made the first written account of these leaf movements in the fourth century B.C. It took centuries longer to discover that he was …