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| IU center uses light microscopy in research - WTHR Posted: 27 Mar 2010 08:41 AM PDT Bloomington, Ind. - An Indiana University center is dazzling researchers as it uses light images to study areas ranging from cell biology to the path of neurons in the brain. The Light Microscopy Imaging Center is just two years old but already has 170 researchers signed up to use the lab. Many are just learning how light imaging can enhance their work. The center uses microscopes from various departments and pairs them with sophisticated imaging systems. Many of the machines in the lab cost $500,000 or more. Researchers pay to use the facility and its instructional services. The machines use color filters to produce dazzling images that allow researchers to examine them from various perspectives. Information from: The Herald-Times, http://www.heraldtimesonline.com Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This story may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| 'Renaissance man' of evolutionary biology wins coveted ... - Democratic Underground.com Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:15 PM PDT http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-templeton-prize... UC Irvine's Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize By Mitchell Landsberg As a young doctoral student in the 1960s, Francisco Ayala was surprised to learn that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution appeared to be less widely accepted in the United States than in his native Spain, then a profoundly conservative and religious country. Ayala brought a unique sensibility to the topic, because he had been ordained as a Catholic priest before undertaking graduate studies in evolution and genetics. What he believed then, and has spent his career espousing, is that evolution is consistent with the Christian faith. <snip> Ayala, 76, has been at the forefront of efforts to defend Darwin's theory from attacks by Christian fundamentalists, many of whom favor the notion of intelligent design, which is consistent with a literal reading of the biblical creation story and holds that the world is too complex to have evolved without oversight by a supreme being. He was the primary author of "Science, Evolution and Creationism," a publication of the National Academy of Science that attempted to boil down the argument in favor of Darwin. He also is the author of numerous other publications, including the book, "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion," which expands on his pro-evolution argument and attempts to knock down intelligent design, which he says is either "bad science or not science at all." <snip> "He's a major figure in the field," said UC Irvine colleague John Avise, who was Ayala's student during his own doctoral studies in the 1970s. "He was one of the early pioneers of molecular methods in population biology, so he got in sort on the ground floor of the molecular revolution that took place back in the 1960s and early 1970s." <snip> Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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