The birth of left and right.(SAMPLINGS)(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-SEP-05

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In spite of its many symmetries, the body is subtly asymmetric: the heart, for instance, lies to the left of center and the liver to the right. But how does the asymmetry arise? Investigators in the laboratory of Nobutaka Hirokawa, a cell biologist at the University of Tokyo, have...

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