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Spermbots could help women trying to conceive (video)

13-Jan-2016

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Sperm that don’t swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility.

Motorized spermbots can deliver poor swimmers to an egg.

Metal helices, just large enough to fit around the tail of a sperm, controlled by a rotating magnetic field.

The study was published in the Nano Letters journal.

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IFW Dresden

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research/Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden.

Nano Letters

Journal about nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Nanobots