A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...

According to the laws of proportion, the ideal human body could be inscribed in a circle, and one could easily compute the length of the main body parts as simple fractions of the length of the body.

Shedding light on the process could advance efforts aimed at using human stem cells to replace diseased cells and regenerate lost or injured body parts, Brivanlou says.

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