Discovery of first motor with revolution motion in a virus-killing bacteria advances nanotechnology
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 09:31
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have cracked a 35-year-old mystery about the workings of the natural motors that are serving as models for development of a futuristic genre of synthetic nanomotors that pump therapeutic DNA, RNA or drugs into individual diseased cells. Their report revealing the innermost mechanisms of these nanomotors in a bacteria-killing virus—and a new way to move DNA through cells—is being published online today in the journal ACS Nano.