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Nature Medicine  3, 718 - 719 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0797-718

Molecular time machines

William J. Schwartz

Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA

The first gene involved in mammalian circadian timekeeping has been identified.

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