Comments on: The Clock That Breeds http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Daniel Kane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-12301 Daniel Kane Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-12301 Hi Carl, Just a quick note to say "great article" on the clock that breeds. Hi Carl,

Just a quick note to say “great article” on the clock that breeds.

]]> By: hej http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11599 hej Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:38:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11599 <blockquote>Can you explain how this does not ruin the time-keeping?</blockquote> <p>I think that he meant that each bacterium had it's own clock. So if you just concentrate on one cell and ignore the other ones you see a regular blinking. And presumably they don't see each other blink, since the turning off signal was unrelated to the light.

Can you explain how this does not ruin the time-keeping?

I think that he meant that each bacterium had it’s own clock. So if you just concentrate on one cell and ignore the other ones you see a regular blinking. And presumably they don’t see each other blink, since the turning off signal was unrelated to the light.

]]> By: Bactérias expressam um ciclo biológico sintético | Rainha Vermelha http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11553 Bactérias expressam um ciclo biológico sintético | Rainha Vermelha Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:16:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11553 [...] The Loom [...] […] The Loom […]

]]> By: Bjørn Østman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11455 Bjørn Østman Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:58:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/30/the-clock-that-breeds/#comment-11455 It seems that they don't keep time so well from generation to generation. Depends on what you mean by "smoothly", I guess. They start pulsing out of sync. Can you explain how this does not ruin the time-keeping? It seems that they don’t keep time so well from generation to generation. Depends on what you mean by “smoothly”, I guess. They start pulsing out of sync. Can you explain how this does not ruin the time-keeping?

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