(Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Biological Time Bomb, 1968).
In the germline cells that produce eggs or sperm, biological time stands still.
Yamanaka had reversed not just cellular memory but the direction of biological time.
We see this not only over the millennia of biological time, but the decades and centuries of cultural time.
But stealthy attacks might leave thousands of people unaware of biological time bombs ticking away inside their bodies.
Mr. MacNamara is racing the biological time clock of the does, which begin to give birth in May.
Many of his ideas are described in his book "The Geometry of Biological Time" (Springer Verlag), which was published in 1980 and revised in 2001.
The denial of death is alive and well as evidenced by "Searching for Genes to Slow the Hands of Biological Time" (Sept . 26 on extending human life.
Such natural recombination favors the creation of new viruses, and in theory could turn a benign microbe into a biological time bomb.
Mr. Lazarev said he believed that the Far East was already two hours off what he referred to as the correct biological time — meaning the time most appropriate for the human body's internal clock.
You could say the author is simultaneously confronting biological time, his mortality, and what you could call "archival time," the prospect of some posthumous literary life, or the foreclosure of that prospect.
