Oversize Sculptures Offer a Close Look at Bacteria and Viruses

nice job! a fine piece of art! not sience, please don't be confused.

So this is HIS interpretation of the data. I second Azorus....not science....and who really cares. It's not like this has any use in the classroom or research.

scanning electron microscopes don't show "true" color anyways and are often color coded just to make different details stand out from each other. most organisms at this scale don't have any apparent color individually anyways so this is a pretty accurate model for the classroom mr areyoukidding. Plus I've seen the microscope images of E.Coli before and thats quite an accurate model in that sense as well. and it is science! science was used to know what the model should look like and the making melting and shaping of glass is all very scientific as well though art at the same time. I'm getting sick of all these sceptics and negative criticisms of the articles here and most of the time the people being so negative have no idea what they are talking about. so here's a hint if your not educated on it and your not asking questions to learn more then do some research before passing judgement and posting it your making yourselves look like idiots.

It must've taken forever to melt all those individual "pili" onto the bigger part. This is really nice, but like everyone says, it's not science. Unless you account for the fact that organisms at this small a scale usually don't have color, like Laced said.

Aside from all that, I wonder how much this stuff goes for. Probably in the thousand dollar or more range? $1500-$10,000?

Sorry, It will never truely replicate what e-coil is. It is art, an artist interpitation, however accurate it may be.

next thing you will tell me is that all the pictures of models on mags are science because they are a true picture of what they are. Tell that to demis thigh.