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Worms reveal why melatonin promotes sleep

November 16, 2020 by

Melatonin is used as a dietary supplement to promote sleep and get over jet lag, but nobody really understands how it works in the brain. Now, researchers show that melatonin helps worms sleep, too, and they suspect they've identified what it does in us.

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