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Slideshow: Micro Sculpture No Bull

It's the smallest three-dimensional sculpture ever made: a bull the size of a red blood cell. C'mon in and check it out.
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The Osaka engineers, along with several other research centers around the world, want to develop technologies for fabricating, measuring and controlling objects on a nano scale. Ultimately, they hope to build 'micromachines' capable of travelling through the human blood stream.LaSIE

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About the same size as a red blood cell, this micro bull is the smallest model of an animal ever created.

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The bull is sculpted from synthetic resin with a laser technique called twophoton photopolymerization.

The bull is sculpted from synthetic resin with a laser technique called two-photon photo-polymerization.

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of a milimeter.

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