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CLOCK GENES. "Expression of the LHY and CCA1 mRNA levels oscillates and levels of both transcripts peak shortly after dawn. The LHY and CCA1 proteins also are synthesized rhythmically with a lag of approximately 2 h after their cognate mRNAs. Both transcription factors bind to a promoter element known as the evening element and act to inhibit transcription of evening-specific genes, including TOC1. In the evening, the level of both repressors declines and transcription of the TOC1 gene resumes." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

POSSIBILITY OF LIFE TRANSITION. "Upon observing the seemingly unlimited complexity and variety of Life's evolving patterns, it becomes almost impossible to refrain from imagining, along with Conway, that, were the game really to be played on an infinite lattice, there must surely arise true living ‘life-forms’, perhaps themselves evolving into more complex, possibly sentient, ‘organisms’." https://lnkd.in/d3B2FKW View in LinkedIn

FEEDBACK LOOPS. "The circadian oscillator of higher plants comprises transcriptional– translational feedback loops similar to those described earlier for fungal and animal clocks." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

CLOCK CENTRAL. "In plants, the circadian clock controls expression of approximately 6% of the transcriptome. This includes genes encoding components of all major metabolic pathways as well as genes involved in hormone biosynthesis, photoreceptors and floral regulators such as CO, FT and GI." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

CLOCK GENE CO. "These results were consistent with a model in which expression of CO under the control of the circadian clock mediates rhythmic changes in photoresponsiveness and perception of external coincidence with light." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

LOVING MACHINES. Rasmussen "sees us inventing machines that can "love more deeply" than may be humanly possible." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NOT THE END-GAME. "[W]e as humans are naive if we believe that we are the end product of evolution. I'm sure we are not." (Steen Rasmussen). https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

INTERESTING VIEW. Steen Rasmussen on video. https://lnkd.in/dTvYrn4 View in LinkedIn

"STEEN RASMUSSEN. The main scientific effort of Steen Rasmussen over the last ten years has been to explore, understand and construct a transition from nonliving to living materials. He became a scientific team leader in 2002 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, and he has since held research leadership positions at the Santa Fe Institute, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark." https://lnkd.in/dEYN9m2 View in LinkedIn

CURRENT STATUS. Work continues on Conway’s Game of Life. A sampling of the imaginative projects undertaken, https://lnkd.in/dJ89ZU9 View in LinkedIn