Watch the clock-engineering biological systems to be on time

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 634-643

  Aubel, Dominique ^a,b   Fussenegger, Martin ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRON; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SLEEP; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 78349313133     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2010.09.003     Document Type: Review

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