3D images help physicians design appropriate interventions.
Images of realistic and colorful 3D human body parts line the hall outside the lab. Blood and muscle look like blood and muscle; bone looks like bone. You almost expect to find human cadavers being...
Sep, 01, 2011
In three dimensions, researchers can now visualize the location and activity of more than 21,000 genes in a normal mouse brain. The Allen Brain Atlas, funded with $100 million in seed money...
Jan, 01, 2007
“The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.”—...
Jan, 01, 2006
Ecce Homology is a physically interactive new-media work that visualizes genetic data as calligraphic forms.
A group of artists and scientists has created an interactive artwork using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), one of the foundational algorithms for comparative genomics. Normally, the BLAST...
Sep, 01, 2005
A new media artwork explores novel ways to represent and intuitively understand nature in the metagenomic era
What’s it like to be immersed in a dataset of millions of DNA sequences? Audiences of ATLAS in silico—a new media artwork that explores novel ways to represent and intuitively understand...
Oct, 01, 2008
How precise an image can fluorescence microscopy provide?
As modern optics and cell biology have flourished in recent years, they’ve each driven innovation in the other. Yet commonly employed imaging techniques, such as fluorescence microscopy, have...
Sep, 01, 2011
Patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are known to have adverse brain changes, such as reduced volume—but it’s unclear what comes first, the disease or the abnormality...
Apr, 01, 2009
2-D visualizations by HemoVis software leads to faster, more accurate diagnoses
To diagnose heart disease noninvasively, scientists combine 3-D visualizations of the heart and blood vessels (reconstructed from CT scans) with computer simulations of blood flow. Typically, a...
Jan, 02, 2012
Kids often claim they are just as smart—if not smarter—than their parents. Childish nonsense? Perhaps not, according to a recent study. It turns out that young children’s brains are...
Oct, 01, 2009
Thirty years ago, molecular biologists routinely constructed protein models out of brass rods (“Kendrew models”). In recent years, researchers put away such tinker toys and turned to...
Aug, 31, 2005