Media Advisory: 1999 Spring Meeting -- Updated Press Conference Schedule
...ravitationallyfocused" into a narrow tail that was photographed using a sensitive camera atthe Boston University Station, McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, Texas.Experimental results and computer animations will be presented by researchersfrom the BU Center for Space Physics. Participants: Michael Mend...Duke Study Helps Explain How Cells Divvy Up Genes During Reproduction
...molecule to the Ncd motor in fruitflies. Then they photographed the chromosomes and molecular motors in action asthe chromosomes lined up to separate during cell division, producing some of thefirst detailed moving pictures of chromosomes being divvied up into individualeggs. They then made movies ......crographs of 320cross-sections of the retina. "We photographed the mosaic of retinal cells pieceby piece, analyzed over 2,000 images, and then used a computer program to buildup a library of the complete structure," explains Sterling, a professor of neuroscience. "By composing this exacting model, we cannow isol...