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| Subject: Fantastic voyage comes a tiny step closer Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:35 am | |
| NSW researchers have developed tiny artificial muscles that can twist like those in the trunk of an elephant or the arm of an octopus.
Made from a tough, flexible yarn spun from carbon nanotubes, they could speed up the design of futuristic nanobots that can travel through the body detecting and treating disease.
Geoff Spinks, of the University of Wollongong, said a big hurdle to the development of medical nanobots was how to propel them in the bloodstream.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fantastic-voyage-comes-a-tiny-step-closer-20111014-1lo0x.html |
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