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Flubber (1997) is a movie about a professor at a college trying to create a new source of energy with his assistant.  In the end, he created a rubbery bouncy creature which it was called Flubber.

The image above that looked like Flubber is not Flubber (sorry for fooling you with the title).  It is a 5 mm capsule doll composed of living cells created by scientists  at University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS).  The researchers cultivated hundred thousand cell capsules which each coated with dozens of skin cells into the doll-shaped mold, hence creating a doll-shaped tissue.  IIS lead researcher professor Shoji Takeuchi said that this technique can create body organs and tissues which is useful in regenerative medicine and drug development.

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This bowl of noodle won’t fill your stomach because it is only 1-micron 2-micron long x 0.5-micron thick noodles. This world’s smallest Ramen is created by Professor Masayuki Nakao, University of Tokyo, so that one million bowls of nano Ramen can be sold each meal. The purpose of creation is to develop new carbon nanotube-based microcircuit fabrication technology. The soup of this bowl of Ramen is consisted of ethanol and catalyst. Perhaps it’s the art of nano-cooking.

You can also know the history of Ramen at here.

[Source Pink Tentacle]