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Eyes in their stars

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Engineers envy brittlestar bones' built-in lenses.

A relative of the starfish and sea urchin has turned its skeleton into an all-seeing eye. Near-perfect microscopic lenses in brittlestars' bones are more sophisticated than anything humans can produce, say engineers keen to copy the trick.

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  1. Aizenberg, J., Tkachenko, A., Weiner, S., Addadi, L. & Hendler, G. Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars. Nature 412, 819 - 822 (2001).

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Whitfield, J. Eyes in their stars. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010823-11

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