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Stomach acid-powered nanobots get their first test in a living animal.
Researchers at the University of California have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid can take a bubble-powered ride inside a mouse. These tiny motors, each about one-fifth the width of a...
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Nanobot ‘drones’ successfully target atherosclerosis in animal model.
Nanometer-sized drones that deliver a special type of healing molecule to fat deposits in arteries could become a new way to prevent heart attacks caused by atherosclerosis, if an animal model...
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Radio-controlled nanobots open the blood-brain barrier just the right amount...
Magnetic nanoparticles can open the blood-brain barrier and deliver molecules directly to the brain, state researchers from the University of Montreal, Polytechnique Montréal and CHU Sainte-Justine....
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Medical millibots for less-invasive surgeries moving out of proof-of-concept...
Seeking to advance minimally invasive medical treatments, researchers from University of Houston and Harvard Medical School have proposed using millibots, driven by magnetic potential energy from...
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Low-cost DNA nanobot can detect many diseases, including HIV.
Over the past three decades DNA has emerged as an exceptional molecular building block for nanoconstruction due to its predictable conformation and programmable base-pairing interactions. DNA...
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New technique can remove nanoparticles unaltered from blood with ease.
Expanded use of engineered nanoparticles in consumer products and drug delivery increases the potential for environmental release, overexposure or unintended biological exposure. As a result,...
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‘Spermbots’ successful in proof-of-concept fertility studies.
Semen quality is a measure of the ability of semen to accomplish fertilization and a measure of fertility in a man. It is the sperm in the semen that are of importance, and therefore semen quality...
View ArticleFirst autonomous cargo-sorting DNA nanobot developed.
Robots are an important type of molecular machine which automatically carry out complex nanomechanical tasks. DNA molecules are excellent materials for building molecular robots, because their...
View ArticleNew nanosensor can live-track a proteins’ pathway through the cell.
Membrane proteins are a foundational component of every cell in the human body and play a vital role in the cell’s structure, metabolism and transport. They ensure that substances, such as proteins,...
View ArticleElectronic cell-sized nanobots can sense their environment, store data.
Nanorobotics is the development of machines or robots whose components are on the scale of a nanometre. Theoretical discussion of nanobots, involve specific design issues such as sensing, power...
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