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Sep 10, 2016

World’s first ‘nanofish’ could be used as guided drug missiles

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8mDoH-06ayA

By Alice Klein

Making a splash? Engineers have created metallic nanofish that are inspired by the swimming style of real fish, and could be used to carry drugs to specific sites of the body.

The nanofish are 100 times smaller than grains of sand, and are constructed from gold and nickel segments linked by silver hinges. The two outer gold segments act as the head and tail fin, while the two inner nickel segments form the body. Each segment is around 800 nanometres long, a nanometre being one billionth of a metre.

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