Molecular Robots Explore Cells
26 June 2008, 10:49
Categories: molecular-machines--devices
Molecular “robots” have been developed by researchers to explore the chemical environments of living cells and transmit back the results. The new molecules encrypt measurements of two different chemical features of cell membranes into light signals to be decoded by the researchers, an international group from Queen’s University, Belfast, and the University of Tokyo. One measurement is encoded in the light’s intensity, and the other in its wavelength, or color.
“Concepts of nanorobotic vehicles and of mapping out nanospaces have emerged from science fiction into experimental science for the first time,” said lead researcher A. Prasanna de Silva of Queen’s University.
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