“Whoever thinks science isn’t fun must have never heard of Legos. The colorful construction toy has been used before as a cellular teaching tool. But these days, even researchers working in the nanoscale world get to play around a little.

Johns Hopkins engineers are now using Lego to visualize what is (or might be) happening on scales much too small to see with the naked eye or even to watch dynamically with a microscope. Specifically, they are building blown-up models of a lab-on-a-chip to watch and test the dynamics at work in those minuscule machines.”

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