Optical Projection Tomography?Hot off the presses:
New forms of visualizations are developing faster than one can keep up - this technology is very new - in fact, I've never even heard of it before today.
The image to the right is one of a fly using Optical Projection Tomography, or OPT, and it has some novel powers to visually resolve details in the body.
Some of the images it produces are STUNNING
The articel raises another important issue - how do we "visualize" diseases like Parkinson's in Alzheimer's in humans? How does the headline even make sense? Other organisms themselves my be conceptual and biological models for things human - a principle we'll return to in a couple weeks, and that this article demonstrates well.
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