RSS Jellyfish Prove You Don’t Need A Brain To Sleep

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have recently discovered genes that induce and regulate sleep may be much older than previously described. The team studied the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea to determine if these animals, which lack a centralized nervous system, still require sleep. To arrive at this conclusion the team monitored the jellyfish in an aquarium for […]

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