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Bull wins size prize

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Medicine and computers could benefit from nano sculpture.

This bull is the size of a red blood cell. Its Japanese creators hope that the technology they used to make it will find applications in computing and medicine.

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  1. Kawata, S., Sun, H.-B., Tanaka, T. & Takada, K. Finer features for functional microdevices. Nature 412, 697 - 698 (2001).

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