Development of new light diffusion sensors that can detect cancer by measuring how light scatters when it is reflected inside tissue. Development of an ultrashort-pulse laser to use the light scattered off tissue to create images showing melanomas and other cancers on the skin. In May 2000, researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reported Kleopatra's length at about 217 kilometers. The high-speed imaging technique negates the Earth's rapidly changing atmospheric effects, which can distort distant objects in space. Kleopatra is unusual because of its shape.
Most asteroids are spheres.
Researchers hope that Kleopatra's odd shape, which is believed to result from the gentle collision of two asteroids, will offer insight into the composition of asteroids. The JGI is a Department of Energy collaboration of Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, and Los Alamos national laboratories. Scientists reason that they can learn much about the fundamental structure of the cluttered human genome from the puffer genome. This knowledge will help fill in the details of the completed draft of the entire human genome. The same principle that drives the puffer fish research is also leading genetic researchers to investigate the genome of other simpler organisms such as the mouse, fruit fly, yeast, and nematode.