Tag Archive | Sleep
Restless Sleep, Restless Blood Sugar
By Dianna Douglas Kristen Knutson, PhD, recently added to the growing body of research from the University of Chicago on the long-term consequences of skimping on sleep. She found that diabetics who sleep poorly have a harder time controlling their insulin and glucose levels than diabetics who sleep well. The research was published in the […]
Our Pilot Podcast: SMAHC, Sex, and Celiac
We are pleased to announce a new way to keep up with research news from the University of Chicago Medical Center, in the form of a regular audio podcast. Because we are all about evolution at ScienceLife, we will start by posting the pilot episode – Episode #0, if you will – and asking for […]
A SMAHC-down on Poor Sleep
“If sleep does not serve an absolutely vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process ever made.” – Allan Rechtschaffen. We spend approximately one-third of our lives asleep, and yet there is still much to learn about why. Modern sleep research only began less than a century ago, when Nathaniel Kleitman founded […]
Linkage 2/4: Facepalms, Fisherman Birds, and Snow Sleepovers
A quick round-up of science around the web to end a busy, snowy week: The “facepalm” has become a popular piece of the internet lexicon, alongside peers such as “epic fail” and “OMG.” But, as Ed Yong writes at Not Exactly Rocket Science, humans aren’t the only ones who make the universal expression of disgust […]
The Bank Account for Childhood Sleep
It’s a fight all parents are familiar with: the nightly battle to get their children to bed. Kids will try almost any tactic to avoid being tucked in for the night, and even then have long found ways to delay sleep with under-the-cover flashlights. But the deficit of sleep for today’s children and the degree […]
Year in Review: UChicago Research 2010
ScienceLife ran 219 posts in 2010, and choosing the best of them is as hard as picking a favorite gene. So here’s a month-by-month scan of a busy year at the University of Chicago Medical Center, full of exciting discoveries in the laboratory and the clinic. The impact of some of this research is already […]
Burn Off More Fat with More…Sleep?
Losing weight can be described at its simplest as a matter of counting calories during the daytime. Consume fewer calories and burn more through activity and exercise, and you’re likely to lose weight. Eat more high-calorie foods and sit on the couch all day watching football, and you get the opposite effect. But according to […]
High School Research in the Hospital
One typically thinks of a high school science project as something involving frog dissection or baking soda and volcanoes. Less often do you see high school students presenting posters on communication between medical residents and patients who leave the hospital against medical advice. But the Training Early Achievers for Careers in Health Program, or TEACH, […]
