Sleep: what goes up must come down.
The function of sleep is hotly contested. Two recent studies suggest that fly sleep may be required to rescale synapses in the brain.
Pitman
Jena L
JL
Department of Neurobiology, 364 Plantation Street, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Waddell
Scott
S
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