By synchronizing clocks, humans make more efficient use of their time and orchestrate their activities in different places. Bacteria have now been engineered that similarly coordinate their molecular timepieces.
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Fussenegger, M. Synchronized bacterial clocks. Nature 463, 301–302 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463301a
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