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Seeking Symmetry: Finding patterns in human health offers a guide through the overwhelming mass of data generated by contemporary science. Starved for the knowledge that would best help us stay healthy, we are simultaneously glutted with an overload of information about the human body. Amidst ubiquitous talk that patient-centered care and lifestyle changes are the keys to personal health, self-neglect and medical overtreatment nevertheless prevail.The body is rich with symmetries, many of them unknown to us who live in these bodies. Symmetry-seeking reveals certain patterns for understanding the information we have about the body, patterns whose roots lie in embryonic development and in evolution.The book's exploration will guide readers through the parts of their own bodies and introduce tangible, visible examples of symmetry, not only right and left but up and down, male and female, inside and out, as well as symmetries between humans and other species.It presents the symmetries of the body's internal structures that, despite their complexity, are nevertheless simple to understand when viewed with an eye for pattern.Through both words and images, this book will illustrate the most foundational of the principles, structures, and processes that decide how bodies function.A core purpose of the book is to present this knowledge through a lens that makes the information meaningful, by modeling the habit of symmetry-seeking.

Health. --- Symmetry (Biology).

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Developmental biology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Symmetry (Biology).

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Statistical physics --- Biophysics. --- 53 --- 577.3 --- Mechanobiology --- Physics --- Physical and physicochemical bases of life. Biophysics. Biophysical chemistry in general --- Biophysics --- Congresses. --- 577.3 Physical and physicochemical bases of life. Biophysics. Biophysical chemistry in general --- 53 Physics --- 53 Fysica. Natuurkunde --- Fysica. Natuurkunde --- Symmetry (Biology) --- Proteins. --- Membranes (Biology) --- Neural networks (Neurobiology) --- Neural circuitry --- Biophysique --- Symétrie (biologie) --- Protéines. --- Membranes (biologie) --- Réseaux neuronaux (physiologie) --- Biophysique. --- Protéines

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Cell biologists have recently become aware that the asymmetry of cell division is an important regulatory phenomenon in the fate of a cell. During development, cell diversity originates through asymmetry; in the adult organism asymmetric divisions regulate the stem cell reservoir and are a source of the drift that contributes to the aging of organisms with renewable cell compartments. Because of the concept of semi-conservative DNA synthesis, it was thought that the distribution of DNA between daughter cells was symmetric. The analysis of the phenomenon in cells during mitosis, however, revealed the asymmetry in the distribution of the genetic material that creates the drift contributing to aging of mammals. On the other hand, cancer cells can originate from a deregulation of asymmetry during mitosis in particular during stem cell expansion. The book describes the phenomenon in different organisms from plants to animals and addresses its implications for the development of the organism, cell differentiation, human aging and the biology of cancers.

embryologie (geneeskunde) --- histologie --- Histology. Cytology --- Oncology. Neoplasms --- General embryology. Developmental biology --- oncologie --- cytologie --- Cell division --- Cell differentiation --- Genetic recombination --- Symmetry (Biology) --- Biodiversity --- Cellules --- Recombinaison génétique --- Molecular aspects --- Genetic aspects --- Division --- Life Sciences --- Biology --- Molecular biology --- Biologie moléculaire --- Biologie moléculaire --- MDBIOCHE --- Cell differentiation. --- Cell division. --- Developmental biology. --- Cytology. --- Oncology. --- Developmental Biology. --- Cell Biology. --- Cancer Research. --- Tumors --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Development (Biology) --- Growth --- Ontogeny --- Cell biology. --- Cancer research. --- Cancer research