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When I think about what a complicated piece of machinery the human body is, it seems there must be millions of potential ways for things to go wrong in the development of a baby. However, babies are typically born perfectly healthy, birth defects are rare, and this blows my mind a bit.
Is it understood how this has become possible? I'm talking about an actual mechanism that ensures the DNA blueprint is so accurately followed. I mean, it takes us quite a bit of effort just to grow a uniform crystal in a lab, so when we're talking about the huge variety of different molecules that have all somehow got to take the shape of a normal baby... all those different types of cells in such precise configurations... there must be something interesting happening to make that all go smoothly?
Is it understood how this has become possible? I'm talking about an actual mechanism that ensures the DNA blueprint is so accurately followed. I mean, it takes us quite a bit of effort just to grow a uniform crystal in a lab, so when we're talking about the huge variety of different molecules that have all somehow got to take the shape of a normal baby... all those different types of cells in such precise configurations... there must be something interesting happening to make that all go smoothly?
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