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Mathematicians and biologists at Harvard explain why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopyBetween conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the same formation"”however, until now, it has not been clear why.Using a combination of experimental observations, biological and biophysical manipulations, theory, and computation, researchers at...