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Breakthrough Gives 3-D Vision of Dawn of Life

butterwise writes "MSNBC reports that a new scanning technique could revolutionize paleontology. The new technique is allowing researchers a virtual dissection of half-billion-year-old fossilized embryos." From the article: "The Chinese, Swedish, Swiss and British researchers on Donoghue's team used a 1,640-foot-wide (500-meter-wide) particle accelerator in Switzerland to scan the minute fossils, and then fed the information into a computer that generated complete 3-D images of the internal structures in fine detail."

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  1. I like this scanning technique, by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 0, Troll

    pretty intelligent design, eh? Oops ...

  2. As Long as they don't use the Stem Cells by MrCopilot · · Score: 0, Troll
    As Long as they don't try to use the Stem Cells, Everything will be fine.

    Else W will come down like thunder.

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