Monday, 4. June 2007

Visualizing the Molecules that Cause Infectious Disease: Seeing with Supercomputers


Star Trek's "holodeck" has nothing on the visualizations of Mayo Clinic chemist, Dr. Yuan-Ping Pang. While the 3-D holographic chamber on the starship Enterprise projected imaginary interactive images, those of Dr. Pang's lab are all very real. They are scientific visualizations of molecules that cause infectious diseases; he creates them to show researchers what their quarry looks like. In this dimension of inner space, he is going where no one has gone before.

Supercomputer Holodeck Visualizes Disease

healthnewsdigest.com discoverysedge.mayo.edu

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