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Breast cancer risk higher in western parts of time zones; is electric light to blame?

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
imageThere may be a very good reason for not wanting to get up in the morning when it's still dark.Ruigsantos/Shutterstock.com

The 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three researchers “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.”

The circadian rhythm is an innate, approximately...

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