Topic: SCIENCE - on June 4, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
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.
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