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Jan. 10th, 2007 07:41 pm
[personal profile] moominmuppet
How the body becomes asymmetric

Re­search­ers say they’ve learn­ed a sur­pris­ing fact about cell di­vi­sion that might help ex­plain how we be­come asym­met­ric—with the heart on the left, and two dif­fer­ent brain halves, for in­stance.


(World Science is handy for brief little "teaser" articles about a wide range of science, although unfortunately they leave it up to you to find whatever original articles they may be synopsizing, which is a bit frustrating)
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Date: 2007-01-12 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
My pleasure!

Date: 2007-01-11 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kat-chan.livejournal.com
I wonder if this would explain my asymetric face. And yes, it is asymmetric, it's just that I notice is more easily than others.

Date: 2007-01-11 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
Mine is too, particularly my eyes and my nostrils.

Date: 2007-01-12 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] syrinx-77.livejournal.com
hmmm. very eenteressting. Put that one in the back of my brain. RE: external visual assymmetries, though, I don't think anyone is perfectly symmetrical. Ages ago I read an article about more "attractive" faces being the most symmetrical ones. (Crap, I wish I could remember which magazine that was in...) but it said that flawless, perfectly balanced (i.e. everything is exactly the same on either side) symmetry doesn't happen anywhere in Nature. I'll have to find that on the internet if i can... it made me feel like my left-side droop was average.

Date: 2007-01-12 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
*nod* Very true. I remember fun trick displays at the science center that would create mirror images of each side of your face to display that effect. It's a bit creepy.

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