In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage , miniaturised doctors are injected into a scientist's body, on a last-ditch mission to save his life and the vital scientific breakthrough that would perish with him. From their diminutive submarine, the human body—so familiar to the elite team—becomes a revelation. The commonplace becomes the unknown, the strange, a source of wonder. As one crew member remarks: “We're going to see things no one has ...
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a Istituto di Microbiologia, Università di Verona, 37134 Verona; and Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Sezione di Microbiologia, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy