Muscles help regulate our circadian rhythm

  New research has found that our muscles also contain a biological clock that helps regulate our circadian rhythm. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, together with their colleagues from the University of Bath, the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, EPFL, the University of Surrey, and the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, have also found that  perturbations of this machinery might be important for type 2 diabetes development. Their research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and is published in PNAS. They discovered that levels of lipids contained in our muscle cells vary during the day, sometimes favouring