MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life

Published: Aug. 18, 2010, 9:14 p.m.

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In this podcast, I talk to Susan Golden, the co-director of the Center for Chronobiology at the University of California at San Diego.

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We talked about Golden\'s research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have heard of our own "body clock" that tracks the 24-hour cycle of the day, it turns out that some bacteria can tell time, too. Golden has discovered how evolution has produced a molecular clock inside microbes far more elegant than any manmade timepiece.

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