Once again, the family partnership technique had withstood an IRS attack on its estate tax saving features.

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As the team reports in a forthcoming issue of Langmuir, a journal devoted to the study of colloids, the new technique allows them to build composite materials with custom-designed features as tiny as the diameter of a human hair.

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In the future, when the technique is refined, people with specific injuries could receive transplants of individual facial features, Janis said.

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