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I'm Lauren (or "Loz", hence the blog title) and I am a 19 year old student currently studying Human Sciences at the University of Oxford. I aspire to be involved in a career concerning science and media, so this blog is a way for me to gain experience communicating science in an informative but accessible way. While there are some posts concerning current news stories or articles I've written, it is mostly intended to be an educational blog, with a focus on genetics, as this is my key area of interest and I hope to do a masters in genetics after my undergraduate degree. My aim is to explain genetics to a target audience with perhaps little prior scientific knowledge and an interest in furthering their understanding in this field. The posts are not necessarily chronological and pictures used are mostly sourced from the internet (although are hand-drawn in some cases). If you are interested in reading articles I've written, search "article" and it should come up with them in numbered order! I hope this blog proves to be useful in some capacity; let me know if you have any questions and any feedback or advice is always very welcome!

Monday, 14 September 2015

Genetic Differences Between 'Morning Larks' and 'Night Owls'

Yet another post to make up for my long absence! This is another article I read this morning, although it was actually published in May - sorry to keep linking other people's articles rather than writing my own but I found this one particularly relatable. As someone who is very far from being a morning person, but is often wide awake at 11pm, it's nice to know that some of that can be put down to biology (and probably some of it the fact I'm a student). Turns out there is legitimate genetic evidence for the struggle us night owls face crawling out of bed for 9am lectures! Article is linked below (Found this more comprehensible than the actual journal article):



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150514085748.htm


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