Asymmetrical Threat Averted

Complexity Digest 2005.20 - 03

05/05/16

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UnderstandingComplex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics
Urbana-Champaign, Il, 05/05/16-19

Asymmetrical Threat Averted

Excerpts: The somites are embryonic elements that give rise to the muscles, skeleton and some skin layers of the trunk. They form in a symmetrical fashion, but to do so they must be shielded from asymmetrical cues.

The human body looks deceptively symmetrical from the outside. In contrast to this external symmetry, our internal organs are in an asymmetrical, yet reproducible, arrangement. The heart is on the left and the lung next to it is smaller than that on the right.

Source: Asymmetrical Threat Averted
[ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7039/full/435155a.html ], Eran Hornstein, Clifford J. Tabin, DOI: 10.1038/435155a, Nature 435, 155-156, 05/05/12