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Tiny doll made of living cells

According to an announcement made on January 22, the researchers created the tiny figurine by cultivating 100,000 cell capsules -- 0.1-millimeter balls of collagen, each coated with dozens of skin cells -- together inside a doll-shaped mold for one day. After the cell capsules had coalesced to form the doll-shaped mass of tissue, it was placed in a culture solution, where it reportedly survived for more than a day.

(Via Next Nature.)

Just think: ufologists can now claim with absolute confidence that scientists have kept a humanoid life form in laboratory custody.

Take that, Seth Shostak!