The Celestial Code

Chapter 6. A Body Without a Manual

The Celestial Code17 min

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A Body Without a Manual

A petri dish lit from below on a dark bench: small flatworms with two eyespots glide through the water, beside them fragments of a cut worm, each already growing a new head.

In Michael Levin’s lab at Tufts University, there’s an aquarium with planaria — flatworms half an inch long, with two black dots for eyes. Nothing particularly remarkable about them — except for one thing: some of them have two heads.

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