Though the artificial Golgi Dr Linhardt and his team have designed is much bigger than a cell, it is still small by the standards of human engineering, being built on what is known as a digital-fluidics chip.

ECONOMIST: An attempt to mimic part of a cell on a chip

The Golgi apparatus (named after Camillo Golgi, who discovered it in 1898, and illustrated in the accompanying picture) is the part of a cell that sweetens them up.

ECONOMIST: An attempt to mimic part of a cell on a chip