Lead researcher Professor Dolores Malaspina, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, said her findings showed "a man has a biological clock too".

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Traveling across the world and turning your biological clock essentially upside down can definitely cause problems with sleep, both while you are away and when you return.

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The research team took fruit flies and removed several genes that regulate their internal biological clock, which, in humans, decides when we wake up and go to sleep.

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Darren Spedale, 38, the website's founder, says he started the company in 2012 after realizing his own biological clock was ticking but he didn't have someone with whom to raise a child.

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Darren Spedale, 38, the website's founder, says he started the company this year after realizing his own biological clock was ticking but he didn't have someone with whom to raise a child.

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