Synthetic molecular oscillator discoveries may help create artificial cells
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 04:32
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have made important discoveries regarding the behavior of a synthetic molecular oscillator, which could serve as a timekeeping device to control artificial cells. The team developed methods to screen thousands of copies of this oscillator using small droplets, and found, surprisingly, that the oscillators inside these small droplets behave in a very diverse way in terms of period, amplitude and phase.