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                                  | Researchers 
                                    in Sweden have built robotic arms two-thirds 
                                    of a millimeter long that work in salt water. 
                                    These microrobots are designed to snatch blood 
                                    cells, bacterium and other organisms from 
                                    fluid samples. They could be precursors to 
                                    a class of microscopic devices that perform 
                                    tests and procedures inside the human body; 
                                    they could also be put to use building other 
                                    microdevices on tiny assembly lines. Full 
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