In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.
Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...
A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...
Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...