(Nanowerk Spotlight) Artificial nano- and microrobots have gained huge interest in biomedical applications, which include targeted drug delivery, nano sensing, therapeutics, nano surgery etc.

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has developed a type of nanomotor that can be guided inside of a living cell using an external magnetic field. In their paper ...

The system of ferrite coated nanomotors could have great potential in the field of cancer therapeutics where the temperature rise of the local cell environment leads to cell death in the case of ...