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The power of blood

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Compared with the masterpiece crafted by nature, even Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings of the cardiovascular system seem primitive. In creating this system, nature seems to use blood flow as its paintbrush.

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Figure 1: Blood flow shapes the great arteries.

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  1. Paige Snider and Simon J. Conway are in the Cardiovascular Development Group, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5120, USA. siconway@iupui.edu ,

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Snider, P., Conway, S. The power of blood. Nature 450, 180–181 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450180a

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