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...Five beamlines are ready for use, and another four are being designed. One of those, to be devoted to medical imaging, will produce images vastly more detailed than conventional X-ray images. It could also be used in the treatment of patients: there have been promising results from international animal trials using synchrotron X rays to irradiate cancer tumors without affecting healthy surrounding tissue...
...five existing beamlines will swing into use from this month, when the first group of selected research teams arrive from Australia and New Zealand to tap into synchrotron radiation, which covers a broad spectrum including infrared, visible light and X rays. A handful of experts have already begun road-testing the device, and their projects are an early showcase of the dizzying range of topics set to be explored - the infrared beamline, for instance, is being used to study mouse eggs in an effort to pinpoint the best time to fertilize human eggs in IVF; to investigate the facial-tumor...
...focusing on an enigmatic protein, amyloid beta, and what he suspects are its toxic effects on the brains of people with Alzheimer's. In the international race to uncover amyloid beta's molecular structure - the crucial first step in finding out how to block its pathological effects - synchrotron X rays are a crucial tool. The molecules are too small to be imaged individually, so Varghese must grow them into crystals, each just 1/10,000th the width of a human hair, which are then bombarded with X rays. The ways in which the crystals absorb or scatter the radiation give clues...
...Ancona and Bresman have laid out a framework for doing it another way. In X-Teams--their name for groups that get it right--the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team: how to reach outward, build a support structure, be more flexible and navigate a corporate culture that might be less than enthusiastic about border crossing. They use examples from teams at Microsoft, Motorola, Toyota and Southwest Airlines and describe in depth how a team at Merrill Lynch created a distressed-equities desk that spanned debt and equity--something that had never been done...
...murals throughout the city--more than in any other place in the world. On South 47th Street, a lush mural shows a row-house scene in the foreground with Van Gogh's Starry Night--inspired sky as a backdrop. Gigantic, stunning portraits of Dr. J and Malcolm X grace other buildings. Prince Charles visited the mural on 40th and Pennsgrove in January to see the outsize rendering of a girl reading a book that has a brilliant column of butterflies streaming...