Breakthrough gives 3-D vision of life’s dawn
August 10, 2006 | Source: MSNBC
A new technique allowing virtual dissections of half-billion-year-old fossil embryos is producing the first three-dimensional images of the dawn of life.
Synchroton-radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy, or SRXTM, leaves the tiny fossils untouched (compared to the conventional use of acid) but gives graphic details of their structure.