by Elio — Nice of the No­bel Com­mit­tee to award the 2017 prize for Med­i­cine for work on the cir­ca­dian rhythm of fruit flies. This gives us an en­try into a pa­per that helps ex­plain how this cy­cle ac­tu­ally works. It won't sur­prise read­ers of this blog that the an­swer is mi­cro­bial and con­cerns, not un­ex­pect­edly, the in­testi­nal mi­cro­biota...