Individual cells isolated from biological clock can keep daily time, but are unreliable

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 07:14 in Physics & Chemistry

Alexis Webb enters a small room at Washington University in St. Louis with walls, floor and ceiling painted dark green, shuts the door, turns off the lights and bends over a microscope in a black box draped with black cloth. Through the microscope, she can see a single nerve cell on a glass cover slip glowing dimly...

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