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What Induces Sleep? For Fruit Flies It’s Stress at the Cellular Level

February 15, 2020 sarah Jonas Biophysical Society, Biophysical Society 64th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, BPS, BPS20, Drosophila, Fruit Flies, Sleep, Stress, University of Oxford

Sleep-deprived fruit flies helped reveal what induces sleep. University of Oxford researchers Anissa Kempf, Gero Miesenböck, and colleagues reveal that fruit fly sleep is driven by oxidative stress, the imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants in the body.