I was reading New Scientist and wandered over an article about some neat pharmaceutics research.
Some researchers at Harvard have developed sperm-like nano-devices that swim, propelled by a propeller, in a corkscrew motion. They can be radio-controlled via magnets.
These nanopropellers are made of glass, each has a spherical head 200 to 300 nanometres across and a corkscrew-shaped tail 1 to 2 micrometres long – less than one-tenth the length of a human sperm.
The article talks about vaccine delivery, but I see potential for cancer drugs and other therapy that needs to be highly targeted.
It won’t be something I’ll see within my lifetime, but it is cool new technology.
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