Nanorobots and cells (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Nanorobots and cells

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Dr Fengtong Ji is developing nanorobots that can live inside embryos, and these are helping gain new insights into how body tissues develop.

This spinning disk confocal microscopy image reveals cells (blue) growing with nanorobots (red dots). The nanorobots organise into a pattern as the cells move, which reveals the tissue mechanics in a developing chicken embryo’s tail.

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Dr Fengtong Ji

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