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Show BRIDGING THE BIOPOLI TECH CHASM: A NEW MODEL FOR GOVERNMENT - BIOTECHNOLOGY INTERACTION Anne C. Perkins-Link, (Lauren Holland), Political Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 A relationship between the federal gov-ernment and nascent medical biotech-nology, the BioPoliTech relationship, is both inevitable and imperative due to the increasing role of medical biotech-nology in society. However, the current BioPoliTech connection is failing, pre-senting dangerous risks to the rights, security and health of individuals as well as to the interests of society as a whole. An inspection of three major branches of medical biotechnology, reproduc-tive biotech, genomic biotech and neu-ropharmaceutical biotech, provides insight into current BioPoliTech para-digms. These BioPoliTech models reveal that federal government regulation has become increasingly inconsistent, reac-tionary, unapprised, ideological and un-democratic. Industry self-regulation of biotechnology has proved inadequate, while legislative regulation is largely un-informed and ideological. Creation of technical regulatory bodies in each of the biotech branches discussed would provide improved regulation of public and private organizations alike. Further, technical regulatory arms could create a network to connect the many cultures involved in biotech and to effectively respond to science, politics and, most importantly, to society. Accompanied by industry self-regulation and limited legislative regulatory control, technical regulation would provide new leader-ship in which biotechnology could col- laborate with government to bridge the BioPoliTech chasm. ANNOT3D: ANNOTATION OF THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Jennifer Simpson, (S. Janna Balling), Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 As costs have risen with traditional anato-my education methods (cadaver dissec-tion, prosection, and text atlases), computer aided instruction (CAI) has become increas-ingly popular as a supplement for traditional teaching methods. In particular, three-di-mensional (3D) annotated virtual models have been used to improve students' spatial understanding of anatomical structures. In order for 3D annotated models to be use-ful, they need to be user-controllable and the related visualization software needs to pro-vide an accessible authoring environment for creating both models and annotations. While many tools exist that provide pre-an-notated 3D atlases, the field of anatomy ed-ucation is missing a tool that combines 1) an accessible authoring environment, 2) visual and textual annotation, and 3) user-control-lable 3D interaction. In order to meet this need, we developed the Annot3D tool that allows users to add visual and textual annotations to 3D volume data from computed tomography (CT) scans. Once the visualization is created, users can interact (rotate, translate, scale, etc.) with the data and annotations via a simple viewing window that runs on a local computer. Based on our usability studies, we found that Annot3D provides capabilities that aid educators and students in the process of learning anatomy and spatial relationships. From our user studies, we obtained use-ful feedback on ways that Annot3D can be improved to be more accessible and user-friendly for the average anatomy student or instructor. Keywords: anatomy, annotation, three-di-mensional, visualization, computed tomog-raphy {101} |