Molly Jean Clark
@mollyjeanclark.bsky.social
Research technician, biology nerd, and aspiring writer 🔬🧬🧪
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The sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones share similarities with those of humans, according to research published in Nature Communications. The findings support the hypothesis that sleep evolved across a range of species to protect against DNA damage.🧪
DNA damage modulates sleep drive in basal cnidarians with divergent chronotypes - Nature Communications
Here, the authors use the diurnal upside-down jellyfish and the crepuscular starlet sea anemone as simple nerve net models to examine the potential evolutionary origins of sleep. They describe and define sleep patterns in these species, finding that sleep deprivation increases neuronal DNA damage and that sleep facilitates genome stability.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones share similarities with those of humans, according to research published in Nature Communications. The findings support the hypothesis that sleep evolved across a range of species to protect against DNA damage.🧪
I just published my first essay on my substack, it’s about the evolution multicellularity and cancer, i hope you check it out!
#biology #science #scicomm #cancer
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#biology #science #scicomm #cancer
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Slacking on the group project? How human cancers connect us to our unicellular past
An essay on multicellularity and its pitfalls
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December 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I just published my first essay on my substack, it’s about the evolution multicellularity and cancer, i hope you check it out!
#biology #science #scicomm #cancer
open.substack.com/pub/mollyjea...
#biology #science #scicomm #cancer
open.substack.com/pub/mollyjea...
I am looking to get into science writing so I’ve decided to begin by starting a substack newsletter! My first piece will be on the transition to multicellularity and its connections to cancer today. Hopefully it will be out next week, the link is in my bio to subscribe! #science #biology #scicomm
December 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM