Cyanobacteria flasks (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Cyanobacteria flasks

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Scientists have solved how circadian clocks within cyanobacteria, tiny organisms also known as blue-green algae, are able to precisely control when different genes are turned on and off during the 24-hour cycle.

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Mingxu Fang, UC San Diego and Ohio State University

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Must be used in conjunction with Nature Structural and Molecular Biology research paper on circadian clocks in cyanobacteria.

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