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  • 698802PublicAssets/3779Moving protein or other molecules to specific cells to treat or examine them has been a major biological challenge. Scientists have now developed a technique for delivering chemicals to individual cells. The approach involves gold nanowires that, for example, can carry tumor-killing proteins. The advance was possible after researchers developed electric tweezers that could manipulate gold nanowires to help deliver drugs to single cells. <br /><br />This movie shows the manipulation of the nanowires for drug delivery to a single cell. To learn more about this technique, see this post in the <a href="https://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/Booklets/Computing-Life/Pages/Home.aspx">Computing Life series</a>.Nature Nanotechnology Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University, and Nature Nanotechnology Video

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    Moving protein or other molecules to specific cells to treat or examine them has been a major biological challenge. Scientists have now developed a technique for delivering chemicals to individual cells. The approach involves gold nanowires that, for example, can carry tumor-killing proteins. The advance was possible after researchers developed electric tweezers that could manipulate gold nanowires to help deliver drugs to single cells.

    This movie shows the manipulation of the nanowires for drug delivery to a single cell. To learn more about this technique, see this post in the Computing Life series.

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