biorhythms

DARPA funds major study of biorhythms

March 7, 2012

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(Credit: National Institute of Health)

Using a $14 million DARPA grant, a team of biologists and mathematicians at Duke and other universities will be looking more closely at circadian rhythms.

Some of the world’s leading experts on the cell cycle, the circadian clock, the metabolism of yeast, root growth in plants, and pulsing processes in bacteria want to deconstruct the molecular and genetic rhythms that keep these organisms alive, and whether there are universal rules controlling such cyclic behavior.