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Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing

Synchronizing drug delivery with a patient’s body clock can yield clear benefits. But will the data be enough to overcome long-standing hurdles?
  1. Lynne Peeples

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Carole Godain remembers a lot of the little details from the clinical trial she took part in nine years ago. There was the blue button she pushed to get her chemotherapy drugs, and the green light that came on to confirm that the medication was dripping into her veins. Then, of course, there was the hour — 10:00 p.m. without fail, for every treatment.

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Nature 556, 290-292 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04600-8

Additional reporting in French provided by Sabine Louet.

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