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12th June 2015
06:57pm BST

According to Mail Online, this type of blood cell plays a key role in the immune system's ability to fight infection and the results showed that just one night of partial sleep deprivation activates gene expression patterns that could stop or disrupt the cycle of the cell.
Biological ageing is described as the rate at which cells and organs deteriorate and our bodies lose certain functions so by damaging cells, a lack of sleep can cause this deterioration, and ageing, to occur much faster than it would normally.
Early night, anyone?
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