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Nanomedicine Art Gallery
Image 119
Molecular Machines in the Bloodstream
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Molecular Machines in the Bloodstream |
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1996 |
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Giacomo Marchesi (James Gary) |
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Vanishingly small machines like the ones envisioned here could someday serve as tiny mechanical doctors. These miniature devices would roam between the red cells of the bloodstream, seeking out and destroying harmful viruses (shown here as green geometric solids). The working parts of these machines would be built around gears no bigger than a protein molecule. |
| Copyright Info: |
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© Copyright 1996 by Scientific American. For reprint permission, please contact Scientific American, Inc., Permissions Department, 415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017, or at permissions@sciam.com. |
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Gary Stix, "Waiting for Breakthroughs," Scientific American 274 (April 1996):94-99. Also, see response to the text of this article by Ralph C. Merkle. |
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http://www.sciam.com/exhibit/052796exhibit.html
http://www.sciam.com/exhibit/052796exhibitbox.html
http://www.discovery.com/stories/technology/nanotech/nanotech.html |
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