Sleep increases chromosome dynamics to enable reduction of accumulating DNA damage in single neurons

David Zada, Irina Bronshtein, Tali Lerer-Goldshtein, Yuval Garini, Lior Appelbaum, 2019

Nature Communications. 10:895.

*This paper was highlighted in over 60 news outlets (including “The scientific breakthrough of the month”, National Geographic), recommended in F1000Prime, accessed by more than 38,000 viewers and ranked in 99th percentile in Altmetric (Score: 1018).

*This paper was highlighted in Current Biology Dispatches - Mourrain P and Wang GX (2019). Sleep: DNA Repair Function for Better Neuronal Aging? Current Biology. 29:R585-R588

*ERA-NET NEURON award for the 2020 'Excellent Papers in Neuroscience' (EPNA).

* Follow-up article of popular science was published - David Zada and Lior Appelbaum (2019). Visualizing the effects of sleep on neurons’ maintenance. The Science Breaker. https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk272