UT Southwestern research reveals how cells tell time
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 06:28
in Biology & Nature
The fuzzy pale mould that lines the glass tubes in Dr Yi Liu's lab doesn't look much like a clock. But this fungus has an internal, cell-based timekeeper nearly as sophisticated as a human's, allowing UT Southwestern Medical Centre physiologists to study easily the biochemistry and genetics of body clocks, or circadian rhythms...