Researcher Dr Chiara Cirelli said: 'This activity happened in a few cells. For instance, out of the 20 neurons we monitored in one experiment, 18 stayed awake.

奇亚拉·斯莱利博士表示，只有极少数脑细胞可以“微睡眠”，实验检测的20个大脑神经细胞中，有18个都处于活跃状态。

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With the help of Chiara Cirelli, who also works at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Tononi has created a mutant fruit fly that sleeps only two or three hours a night.

在威斯康星大学的同事凯拉奇莱利的帮助下，托诺尼博士创造了一种每晚只睡两到三小时的变异果蝇。

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With the help of Chiara Cirelli, who also works at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Tononi has created a mutant fruit fly that sleeps only two or three hours a night. (A normal fly sleeps between eight and 14 hours.) The mutation itself is in a gene for a nerve-cell protein of a type known as an ion channel.

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