"There’s a hidden clock that underlies every process of every living thing — from when
our cells start dividing to how quickly we age. Researchers at Darpa, the Pentagon’s
extreme science agency, believes they can find it, using a mash-up of biology,
code-cracking, mathematics and computer science.
If the effort succeeds — and, boy, is that a big if — the recently announced
Biochronicity program could help us understand why cancer is so hard to beat, how
stem cells self renew and why cells are programmed to die. In other words, it’ll be one
of the biggest breakthroughs Darpa has ever had."
See:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...-master-clock/