Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...
Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.
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Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones
A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...
In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.
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Jellyfish and Sea Anemones May Be Brainless — but They're More Similar to Us Than We Thought
Experts found that these sea creatures sleep for at least 8 hours a day, a duration often considered ideal for human sleep.
Organisms like eukaryotes and prokaryotes have sophisticated mechanisms of DNA repair after damage. Failure of repairing the DNA damage is considered to be the cause of induction of cell death, ...
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