News tagged with clock protein

It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists pinpoint link between light signal and circadian rhythms

In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine, and his collea ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists model 3D structures of proteins that control human clock

In an Early Edition issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 9, 2009, the researchers report that they have been able to determine the molecular structure of a plant photolyase protein that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Biologists discover how biological clock controls cell division in bacteria

A team of biologists has unraveled the biochemistry of how bacteria so precisely time cell division, a key element in understanding how all organisms from bacteria to humans use their biological clocks to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Body clock regulates metabolism

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms - our own body clock - regulate energy levels in cells. The findings have far-reaching implications, from providing greater insights ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Plant clock gene also works in human cells

A gene that controls part of the 'tick tock' in a plant's circadian clock has been identified by UC Davis researchers. And not only is the plant gene very similar to one in humans, but the human gene can work in plant cells ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Circadian rhythms studies reveal new temperature regulator and track clock protein across a day

Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have made new inroads into understanding the regulatory circuitry of the biological clock that synchronizes the ebb and flow of daily activities, according to two studies published May ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How your body clock avoids hitting the snooze button

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered a new part of the mechanism which allows our bodyclocks to reset themselves on a molecular level.

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created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

1st large-scale map of a plant's protein network addresses evolution, disease process

The eon-spanning clock of evolution – the millions of years that generally pass before organisms acquire new traits – belies a constant ferment in the chambers and channels of cells, as changes in genes and proteins ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

PER:PER protein pair required for circadian clock function

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered a new protein complex operating in fruit fly circadian clocks, which may also help to regulate our own biological clocks.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0