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Worms Help Us Uncover Key Insights Into Origing Of Depression, Insomnia And Memory
By Depressed Jane | August 5, 2008
Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. But a new study in this week’s PLoS Biology may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a most unlikely research subject: worms. The project, which was led by Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Kenneth Miller, Ph.D., examined the way eye-less microscopic worms known as C.
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