THE DANCE OF LIFE / SYMMETRY, CELLS AND HOW WE BECOME HUMAN

How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40 trillion cells, a greater n umber than stars in the galaxy? How do these cells know how to make a human, from lips to heart to toes? How does your body build it self?Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz was pregnant at 42 when a routine genetic test came back with that dreaded word: abnormal. A quarter o f sampled cells contained abnormalities and she was warned her baby had an increased risk of being miscarried or born with birth def ects. Si...[Read more]