Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 07:20
in Biology & Nature
Today, Alan Turing is best known as the father of modern computer science, but in 1952 he sketched out a biological model in which two chemicals an activator and an inhibitor could interact to form the basis for everything from the color patterns of a butterflys wings to the black and white stripes of a zebra.