Genetic clock makers at UC San Diego publish their 'timepiece' i...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Tue, 10/28/2008 - 22:00

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells.

The clock's blink rate changes when the temperature, energy source or other environmental conditions change, a fact that could lead to new kinds of sensors that convey information about the environment through the blinking rate.

The researchers published their synthetic biology advance in the journal Nature.

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