A research team comprising partners from Bristol, Dundee, Southampton and Glasgow universities has recently gained large-scale interest from the media for its development of a microscopic ultrasonic tweezer-like device that could be used to help homeland security officials to detect deadly biological weapons such as anthrax. The team believes that its technology could have a variety of applications beyond homeland security and foresee it being used in everything from tissue engineering to stem-cell research.

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