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  • [Photo] Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho • March 7, 2002
    ``A 3D computing lab will help scientists investigating diseases by allowing them to stand `inside' a simulation of the human biological make-up.
    [...]
    ``The key is the use of Java 3D programming language, which allows scientists anywhere in the world to develop applications for the lab with the Java computer language, widely used to write programs for the World Wide Web.

    ``Scientists, wearing 3D glasses in the 10 foot by 10 foot `cave,' get a 270-degree, larger-than-life projection of the smallest parts of our biological make-up, to the point of being able to stand inside a strand of DNA.''

    Full story:
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105334,00.html

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