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In mammals, molecular clocks regulate transcription and glucose homeostasis. One way they do so is by controlling glucocorticoid-receptor signalling, which suggests that clocks are embedded in liver metabolism. See Letter p.552

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Figure 1: Biological clocks organize glucose metabolism.

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  1. Joseph Bass is in the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. He is also at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University.,

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Bass, J. On time metabolism. Nature 480, 466–467 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480466a

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