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Some of the main attractions inside the Millennium Dome — the centrepiece of the British government's year 2000 celebrations — were unveiled last week. The Body Zone (pictured) is designed to give visitors an insight into their bodies and the discoveries, technologies and new ideas that will affect health and well-being in the future.
Visitors will walk through the giant figure and move on to exhibits on the future of drug design, robots at work in the operating theatre of the future, and an iris scanning display. The Human Genome Project will be featured in a wall of telephone directories representing the quantity of information in human DNA.
Located at Greenwich in London, the dome is expected to receive up to 12 million visitors next year.
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Loder, N. Body takes centre stage in UK's Millennium Dome. Nature 402, 224 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/46137
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/46137