Gold & nickel nanofish could soon be delivering drugs to any area of your body
Engineers in San Francisco have come up with an amazing invention: a fish 1/100 the size of a grain of sand that could carry drugs to specific areas of the body, be used for invasive surgeries, and even single cell manipulation.
The nanofish is made of gold and nickel parts linked by silver hinges. The “head” and “tail” are made of gold, while the “body” is made of nickel. Each segment is about 800 nanometers long (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter), The New Scientist media outlet reported.’
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