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Science 19 December 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5346, pp. 2073 - 2074
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2073
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Perspectives

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Control of the Supply Line

Jeffrey Roberts

How does the cell know when to turn up its machinery for making new proteins and when to turn it down? Roberts poses this problem in his Perspective and explains how data and a model described on p. 2092 of this issue by Gaal et al. propose to answer this question.

The author is in the Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. E-mail: jwr7{at}cornell.edu

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