An End in the Beginning
SciencePublished 5 June 1998
Jay Dunlap
Citations91
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Abstract
All organisms can keep time, with an internal clock that has a period of just about 24 hours. In his commentary, Dunlap outlines recent research ( including a research article and report in this issue by Gekakis and Darlington) that give us a first molecular glimpse of how the protein components of this clock interact.
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