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.
Coquina (/koÊËkiËnÉ/) is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically-sorted fragments of the shells of molluscs, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates.The term coquina comes from the Spanish word for  cockle  and shellfish.For a sediment to be considered to be a coquina, the particles composing it should average 2 mm or greater in size.Coquina can vary in hardness from poorly to moderately cemented.he term coquina comes from the Spanish word for  cockle  and shellfish. For a sediment to be considered to be a coquina, the particles composing it should average 2 mm or greater in size. Coquina can vary in hardness from poorly to moderately cemented.