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Banding together: RAS signaling of circadian output

In the June 15 issue of G&D, Drs. Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros, with colleagues at Dartmouth Medical School, have finally cloned the band gene, and have found that it is an allele of ras-1. This finding posits RAS signaling as a key mediator of circadian output.

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