A whiff of coffee may be just as reinvigorating as drinking it, if tests on sleep deprived mice are anything to go by. A team led by Yoshinori Masuo at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, deprived rats of sleep for a day. When they examined their brains they found reduced levels of mRNA - messenger molecules that indicate when a gene is being expressed ... Read full entry
Wake up, smell the coffee
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 June, 2008 to the coffee subset
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