In a study on fruit flies, researchers discovered a surprising link between mitochondrial damage and sleep pressure. They even showed ways of engineering and altering fruit fly mitochondria that could impact their sleep duration.
Given how mitochondria are essential in all complex life forms – like us – could this work one day lead to sleep treatments?
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