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."

Comments

oh boy

[riff420]

if slashdot wasn't losing the FUCK out of it's grip on journalism, i wouldn't have thought after reading the headline, "oh great, they're releasing LIFE for the Virtual Boy"

Re:Here's a phrase you'll never again see on MSNBC

[utopianfiat]

The whole embryo thing makes that funny on so many levels.

Oh, I can put a serious note on this, too:

Hey, when's Bush going to ban studying these embryos? They might have one day grown up and become productive members of society; after all, God created all creatures...

I like this scanning technique,

[porky_pig_jr]

pretty intelligent design, eh? Oops ...

As Long as they don't use the Stem Cells

[MrCopilot]

As Long as they don't try to use the Stem Cells, Everything will be fine.

Else W will come down like thunder.