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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T16:24:23.000Z",
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  "textContent": "When HHMI Investigator Amita Sehgal started studying sleep 25 years ago, the topic elicited a yawn from most biologists. \"In the year 2000, if I had suggested to my department that we hire people working on sleep, they would have laughed at me,\" says Sehgal, a molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. \"The thinking was that sleep is not something that neuroscientists do; psychologists study sleep and dreams.\" Now, more than two decades later, sleep science has finally woken up.",
  "title": "The cells that never sleep: How slumber lets neurons clean up and stay healthy"
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