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The mathematician and biologist D’Arcy Thompson suggested a hundred years ago that the body of any animal on our planet is caused by gravity. That is, he said, if gravity on Earth were two or several times larger, then we would hardly walk on two legs. Although was Thomson right?
Japanese scientists led by Dr. Makoto Furutani-Seiki recently found a YAP gene that helps us overcome gravity. Without him, we would not only be unable to walk, but in general life on Earth hardly existed. The fact is that this one a gene helps any cell to form as a volumetric structure, and not to be flat (under the gravity of the Earth).
Moreover, for example, our unique eye and its most tender a spherical eyeball is not afraid of gravity just again thanks to the YAP gene. In violation of this gene, the Japanese identified researchers, any animal on Earth will have a “broken” defense from gravity, which first leads to a distortion of the proportions of the body, and then to death.
The discovery of Japanese scientists is of utmost importance for bioengineering, and specifically for growing the most complex transplant organs.
So, the co-author of this discovery, Dr. Stefan Begby, noticed that in currently bioengineers have not yet learned how to create complex artificial organs such as the heart, eyes … And all because just did not know about the YAP gene and its functions in building our organism as a 3D form, not afraid of Earth’s gravity. Interesting as well Do scientists know that gravity has affected the Earth’s climate?
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