Sleep with the Fishes
Date: 3.2.2010
There's a new **guinea pig** in the search for sleep-related drugs: the **zebrafish**. Researchers at Harvard University have developed a screening tool that tests the effects of thousands of compounds on zebrafish behavior in an effort to discover new pathways that govern **sleep**. The research, published this week in the journal **Science**, may result in **new drugs** to treat insomnia and other sleep-related disorders.
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