The Motorized Molecules that are driven by ultraviolet light. Were designed to move toward and energy source and drill a hole in the membrane of a cell. In order to drill the drones spin at 3 million RPM. When the hole is completed the drone delivers a drug to kill the cell. Motorized Molecules thought not the original propose for the drones they are known to kill cancerous cells. The Masterminds behind Motorized Molecules were James Tour of Rice, Robert Pal of Durham, Gufeng Wang of North Carolina State. The three labs joined together to build the Motorized Molecules. Not knowing what would happen the shined an ultraviolet light to see what would happen. The drone experiment had to be redirected. It was because the drones on the first experiment
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With nanomachines only being a nanometer wide they had to either drill and deliver drugs to the cell. Or payloads to disrupt a 8-10 nanometer wide cell membrane. This drones are so small that 50,000 could fit around the diameter of a human hair. The Rice Lab had made 10 of their own to work. All of them were different sizes and all had a drug that was to target and specific cell and terminate it. But these drones were different they were without motors. The Wang lab on the other hand had different ideas for their drones. When they built drones of their own they were going to test the drone to see if the drones could open synthetic lipid bilayer vesicle. Using dye to signify the penetration of the cell. The drone was able to drill through and they decided that the drone takes roughly a minute to drill the hole. Pals Lab expected the drones to work on living cells. Such as Cancer cells to greatly improve the cancer survival rates. So they used human prostate cells. They noticed that the cells could find the specified target without the light but needed the light to be able to terminate the cancerous cell.So with the drones being non motorized Pal Lab was able to eliminate thermal absorption. But Pal Lab will continue to experiment with this drones and expect them to run on Two-photon
With nanomachines only being a nanometer wide they had to either drill and deliver drugs to the cell. Or payloads to disrupt a 8-10 nanometer wide cell membrane. This drones are so small that 50,000 could fit around the diameter of a human hair. The Rice Lab had made 10 of their own to work. All of them were different sizes and all had a drug that was to target and specific cell and terminate it. But these drones were different they were without motors. The Wang lab on the other hand had different ideas for their drones. When they built drones of their own they were going to test the drone to see if the drones could open synthetic lipid bilayer vesicle. Using dye to signify the penetration of the cell. The drone was able to drill through and they decided that the drone takes roughly a minute to drill the hole. Pals Lab expected the drones to work on living cells. Such as Cancer cells to greatly improve the cancer survival rates. So they used human prostate cells. They noticed that the cells could find the specified target without the light but needed the light to be able to terminate the cancerous cell.So with the drones being non motorized Pal Lab was able to eliminate thermal absorption. But Pal Lab will continue to experiment with this drones and expect them to run on Two-photon