Dr. Yi Liu, UT Southwestern Medical Center (IMAGE)

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Yi Liu, UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Dr. Yi Liu is studying mold that uses a protein called FRQ as the main gear of its biological clock. His research team had found that a sequence of changes in the protein’s chemical structure is used to mark time, a finding that might someday help develop treatments for human sleep disorders.

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