(Nanowerk News) Living organisms monitor time – and react to it – in many different ways, from detecting light and sound in microseconds to responding physiologically in pre-programmed ways, via their ...

Opening new doors for the development of nanotechnologies in medicine and other fields, scientists recreate and compare two natural mechanisms to better program the timescale of molecular ...

Circadian timing refers to the ability of an organism deprived of external temporal cues to express physiological and behavioural rhythms with a periodicity of approximately 24 hours. This endogenous ...

Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have discovered a "clockwork" mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. In two publications, in "Nature Communications" und "PNAS", ...

Researchers have discovered a 'clockwork' mechanism that controls cell division in bacteria. They report how a small signaling molecule starts the 'clock', which informs the cell about the right time ...

The circadian rhythm, an internal clock synchronized to light-dark cycles and other external cues, regulates various metabolic processes including the cell division cycle. Whereas a mechanical clock ...