Researchers have identified how a fundamental biological process called protein synthesis is controlled within the body's circadian clock -- the internal mechanism that controls one's daily rhythms.

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Taken together, these data demonstrate that BMAL1 acetylation facilitates CRY1 interaction with the CLOCK–BMAL1 complex.

A gene controlling our biological clocks plays a vital role in regulating human-specific genes important to brain evolution. These findings open new paths of research into how CLOCK proteins produced ...