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Michael Young is an American geneticist who has spent his career at Rockefeller University in New York. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. Young's research group identified the timeless gene in Drosophila and showed that the TIM protein it produces is essential for circadian clock function. His lab also discovered the doubletime gene, which regulates the stability of circadian clock proteins and fine-tunes the daily cycle.

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At which university did Michael Young conduct his Nobel-winning research?

Michael Young is an American geneticist who has spent his career at Rockefeller University in New York. It was there that he made his pivotal discoveries regarding sleep-wake cycles.

What additional gene did Michael Young discover to explain how the biological clock works?

In addition to studying the period gene, Young discovered a second gene called timeless. He proved that the proteins produced by these two genes bind together to regulate the 24-hour sleep-wake cycle.

With whom did Michael Young share the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

Young shared the 2017 Nobel Prize with Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash. While Hall and Rosbash worked together at Brandeis University, Young independently made complementary discoveries at Rockefeller University.

What subject does Michael Young's Nobel-winning research center on?

His research centers on chronobiology, specifically the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms. He utilized fruit flies to explain how living organisms adapt their internal clocks to match the Earth's rotations.

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