Texas Center for Proton Therapy brings innovative cancer treatment to Dallas-Fort Worth. By Claire St. Amant, The Influentials-News-CultureMap Dallas.cheduled to start accepting patients in 2016, the $105 million center is breaking ground in Las Colinas on May 15 thanks to Texas Oncology. Proton Therapy is a relatively new form of radiation treatment that uses a proton beam to damage the DNA of cancer cells.
A coral reef is made of thin layers of calcium carbonate. Coral polyps form a living mat over a calcium carbonate skeleton. Stony corals (or scleractinians) are the corals primarily responsible for laying the foundations of, and building up, reef structures.
In Abu Dhabi the coral reefs are formed by three major species and an unspecified number of minor species. The major species consist of: The remaining 10 percent of the coral reefs are made up of the minority species. So far only a few of these have been investigated. One of them is Lunar Coral or Montrastrea species. This accounts for almost half (5% of the reef) of the minority species in Abu Dhabi.