Some 300 years ago, microscope inventor Antony van Leeuwenhoek stunned the world when he became the first to observe “animalcules” that were “very prettily a-moving” in human saliva and other excretions. Now, a human-rigged device has joined the menagerie. To a red blood cell, scientists in France have attached a wavy tail that responds to magnetic fields.
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