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Yanagisawa Wins Lasker Award for Unlocking Orexin’s Role in Sleep
University of Tsukuba professor Masashi Yanagisawa has won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for discoveries involving orexin, a brain peptide that plays a key role in regulating sleep and wakefulness. Yanagisawa, 66, shares the award with Emmanuel Mignot,…
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