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Michael Warren Young (born March 28, 1949) is an American biologist and geneticist. He has dedicated over three decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within Drosophila melanogaster. [2]
Michael W. Young is a cell biologist and geneticist who studies the molecular basis of circadian rhythms in Drosophila and humans. He is the Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor at Rockefeller University and the co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Facts. © Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud. Michael W. Young. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017. Born: 28 March 1949, Miami, FL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm” Prize share: 1/3. Life.
Michael W. Young (born March 28, 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American geneticist who contributed to the discovery of molecular mechanisms that regulate circadian rhythm, the 24-hour period of biological activity in humans and other organisms.
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Oct 2, 2017 · Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were able to peek inside our biological clock and elucidate its inner workings. Their discoveries explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the Earth’s revolutions.
Biographical. I. remember reading this big book, The Wonders of Life on Earth, when I was eleven or twelve. It said bird migration was controlled by some kind of internal timer, some kind of clock. Some birds, it explained, use the position of the sun to orient their migration, and the clocks in their heads are able to track time in order to ...
Michael W. Young is a professor of genetics and a leading researcher on circadian rhythms in Drosophila and humans. His laboratory studies the molecular and behavioral mechanisms of the biological clock and its regulation by light and gene expression.
