Scientists create a living doll
Boffins in Japan have created a living biological doll ... but it won't make a great toy, it's just 5mm tall.
It was produced to demonstrate a new method for fabricating 3D living biological structures developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo.
They claim to have made the doll by cultivating 100,000 cell capsules - each coated with skin cells - and keeping them inside a mould for 24 hours.
Once the cells formed the doll-shaped mass of tissue it was maintained in a culture solution and survived for more than a day.
It is still not known what prompted the researchers to conduct the research, although they had recently been watching the movie Weird Science so the answer could be Kelly LeBrock.
Once perfected the process could be used to create organs and tissues for use in regenerative medicine procedures.
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