Swimming devices could deliver drugs inside the body

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 06:24 in Physics & Chemistry

Engineers at the University of Sheffield have discovered that tiny spherical bead-like devices can be guided by physical structures while swimming inside fluids. This opens up a wealth of future possibilities, such as using structures in the body to guide drug delivery, or cracks in rocks to direct environmental clean-up and exploration.

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