Time-lapse recording and theoretical analysis of individual cells isolated from the zebrafish segmentation clock reveal that they behave as self-sustained, autonomous oscillators with distinctive noisy dynamics.

A microfluidic experimental approach combined with dynamical systems theory reveals how to entrain an embryonic oscillator, the segmentation clock, and allows for the quantification of its entrainment properties.

Molecular clocks that are robust to external fluctuations are vulnerable to internal fluctuations and vice versa.

Fungal hyphae constantly undergo signal oscillations, comparable to a cell 'monologue' until they meet another hypha with which they then coordinate signal oscillations and transit into a cell-to-cell dialogue.

New complex traits can evolve through the elimination of genes in multiple unrelated pathways, rather than through the creation of new gene functions.

Stochasticity introduced computationally into a gene expression oscillator creates heterogeneity in the time of differentiation of identical cells and offers robustness to the progenitor state and the outcome of cell division.

Computational modelling together with experimental manipulation indicate that the stability and turnover of activated Notch is inextricably linked to the regulation of the pace of segmentation clock gene expression in the presomitic mesoderm.

Neuropeptide F/Y from neurons drives rhythmic expression of detoxification-related genes in a peripheral metabolic tissue in flies and mice.

A minimal cell-like system with defined geometry has been used to investigate the establishment and spatial control of a protein gradient that positions the bacterial cell division machinery.

NF-κB oscillations synchronize to external perturbations as a damped oscillator, producing different transcription dynamics.