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Our Sperm Engine? It's a V8 — 8 Flagella Mounted on the Crankcase

John Paczkowski in News on January 2, 2008 at 2:17 pm PT

Here’s a rather odd hybrid vehicle equally at place in the annals of science and science fiction: a sperm-powered nanoscale robot. Scientists at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health have nearly managed to reproduce (no pun intended) the minute biological engine that powers a sperm’s flagellum. That engine runs on a high-energy molecule called [...]

Our Sperm Engine? It’s a V8 — 8 Flagella Mounted on the Crankcase

John Paczkowski in News on January 2, 2008 at 2:17 pm PT

Here’s a rather odd hybrid vehicle equally at place in the annals of science and science fiction: a sperm-powered nanoscale robot. Scientists at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health have nearly managed to reproduce (no pun intended) the minute biological engine that powers a sperm’s flagellum. That engine runs on a high-energy molecule called [...]