Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
The Joy of Why
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Sleep in Flies and Mice
The fruit fly is a wonderful model organism, we call it. It was shown several decades ago that sleep in flies checks off all those boxes. They do enter these states where they stay mobile for many hours. We're using flies primarily in the lab, and then when we find something that we think is kind of a, you know, an important discovery, then we test those findings in mice. And so far, things that we have been cross checking, it's pretty much the same. I've really come to kind of think that flies are just like us, plus they can fly.
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