NanoSwimmers

NanoSwimmers
Someday, treating patients with nanorobots could become standard practice to deliver medicine specifically to parts of the body affected by disease. But merely injecting drug-loaded nanoparticles might not always be enough to get them where they need to go. Now scientists are reporting in the ACS journal Nano Letters the development of new nanoswimmers that can move easily through body fluids to their targets.

Source and further reading:
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2015/acs-presspac-june-17-2015/toward-nanorobots-that-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-video.html

Watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRxyN9yxOP0

Paper:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01981

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