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But with the advances of genomics in recent years, scientists have a new lens through which to single out mutations of individual proteins in a DNA strand.

Author: By Eric Fleisig-greene, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mitosis Specialist Splits From UCSF | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Our eyes are surrounded by a tough, protective layer called the sclera. Only at the front of the eyeball does the sclera give way to the cornea, which is transparent. Light passes through the cornea to the pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris, or colored part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

As it happens, the eye's lens provides just a third of the eye's focusing power. The rest comes from the cornea, which acts like a second lens to help focus light onto the retina. If you're nearsighted, or myopic, your eye produces clear images of nearby objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

I had followed advances in vision-correcting surgery for more than a decade. My eyes were awful. I had glasses as a young child, contacts as a teenager, but lately I could wear only an exotic and costly kind of lens. Glasses didn't work as well. Allergy season was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Still Waiting for My Miracle | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

The weird pleasure of watching Barney's art is seeing whatever improbable carnival comes next. If you're willing to spend the time to untie his Gordian knot of symbolic acts and images--and they do indeed unknot--you'll find a maniacal, systematic and deeply imagined vision of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hallucinatory Acts | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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