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World's Smallest Nanomotor Could Power Cell-Sized Nanobots For Drug Delivery 20

Zothecula (1870348) writes "Scientists at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas have built and tested what appears to be the world's smallest, fastest, and longest-running nanomotor yet – so small that it could fit inside a single cell. The advance could be used to power nanobots that would deliver specific drugs to individual living cells inside the human body."
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World's Smallest Nanomotor Could Power Cell-Sized Nanobots For Drug Delivery

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  • by Anonymous Coward
    I'll take a microgram of heroin please! If you could deliver it Friday, sometime after 4 pm, that'd be great. KTHXBYE
  • quick read (Score:5, Funny)

    by Kurast ( 1662819 ) on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:08AM (#47064637)

    I read drug delivery, and thought: "The FBI will not like it".

  • by Anonymous Coward

    I released about 35 million nanomotors this morning before breakfast.

  • And so it begins.

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