Dynamic Visualization Made Of Simplest Circadian Clock

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 03/12/2008 - 22:00

Scientists have acquired a more dynamic picture of events that underlie the functions of a bacterial biological clock.

New research shows how the simplest organism known to have a circadian clock keeps time and may enhance our understanding of how other organisms establish and govern chronological rhythms.

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