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Silkworm transformation is art

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Gwynne D. Koch

When contemporary artist Gillian Steel approached scientists at the University of Abertay in Dundee, UK, with the aim of visualizing the hidden process of a silkworm developing inside its cocoon, they did not expect to capture the moment of transformation when the moth emerges. Using x-ray tomography, scientists captured images of a silkworm larva inside its cocoon. But that is just what Dmitri Grinev and his team at the university’s Scottish Informatics and Mathematics Biology and Statistics center did. Using x-ray tomography, a technique that relies on the principle that tissues...Read full article

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    Published: December 2007
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