Transforming biology into an engineering practice, decoupling design from fabrication and speeding the biological design, build, test cycle is how DARPA proposes to tackle this problem.

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Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, " the committee said, which are guided by biological clocks and drive the waking and sleeping cycle.

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