One of the most basic parts of that arrangement, though, is immediately obvious from the picture of spots in the pattern.

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Its staff of biologists and astrophysicists uses pattern-recognition software to get a clear picture of how all these genes are switching on and off, literally following how the genetic code is creating and recreating the body.

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One of the report's lead authors, Professor Michel Coleman, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it was important to look at the overall pattern of survival rates to build up a clear picture of what is going on.

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They could be placed in picture frames and alert someone - a doctor or family member - if the regular pattern of movement is altered.

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The picture never tries to whip us into a frenzy of indignation, but its restrained, lawyerly laying out of a pattern of injustice is devastatingly effective.

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