{"id":85013,"date":"2018-11-22T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-origins-of-asymmetry-a-protein-that-makes-you-do-the-twist"},"modified":"2018-11-22T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:24:55","slug":"the-origins-of-asymmetry-a-protein-that-makes-you-do-the-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-origins-of-asymmetry-a-protein-that-makes-you-do-the-twist","title":{"rendered":"The origins of asymmetry: A protein that makes you do the twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-origins-of-asymmetry-a-protein-that-makes-you-do-the-twist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the left, our preference to use our left or right hand \u2026 A team from the Institute of biology Valrose (CNRS\/Inserm\/Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, has shown how a single protein induces a spiral motion in another molecule. Through a domino effect, this causes cells, organs, and indeed the entire body to twist, triggering lateralized behaviour. This research is published in the journal <i>Science<\/i> on November 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-asymmetry-protein.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-asymmetry-protein.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the left, our preference to use our left or right hand \u2026 A team from the Institute of biology Valrose (CNRS\/Inserm\/Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}