{"id":549735,"date":"2018-11-22T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5ac8a3c4c061bb911bd70cdbf495d537"},"modified":"2018-11-22T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:00:03","slug":"the-origins-of-asymmetry-a-protein-that-makes-you-do-the-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=549735","title":{"rendered":"The origins of asymmetry: A protein that makes you do the twist"},"content":{"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 &#8230; A team from the Institute of biology Valrose (CNRS\/Inserm\/Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur), 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 Science on November 23, 2018.<\/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 &#8230; A team from the Institute of biology Valrose (CNRS\/Inserm\/Universit&eacute; C&ocirc;te d&#8217;Azur), 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 Science on November 23, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549736,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549735\/revisions\/549736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}