Three American physiology scientists, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for the discovery of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. CGTN's Mark Fontes has more.

 

The prize committee says the three Nobel laureates illuminated the so-called "inner clock" may influence our physiology, positively or negatively. Through experiments on fruit flies, the scientists isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm, and exposed the mechanism of molecular changes that might help living organisms adapt to the Earth's revolutions.

 

NILS-GORAN LARSSON NOBEL COMMITTEE PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERT "I think it is a very important discovery. You know life on Earth has set because the world is rotating around itself, so we have day and night. And we have different activities at day and night. You sleep at night and eat during the day. And life has adapted to it. When the circadian rhythm is disturbed, it causes problems. You can get adiposity or diabetes, something like that in some experimental animals and probably similar things can happen in humans. "

 

Mark Fontes, CGTN.