Tiny robots swim through the eye to deliver medicine

Scientists use magnetic fields to drive spiral nanobots for drug delivery. Learn more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/...

Read the paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/conten...

Credits
producer
Sarah Crespi

citation
Z. Wu et al., Science Advances 2018
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4388

script and story
Frankie Schembri

research footage
Z. Wu et al. Science Advances 2018

research photos
Tian Qui
Micro, Nano & Molecular Systems Lab,
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

3D model
Tian Qiu

archival video
"Eye Care" Prelinger Archive
"How the Eye Functions" Prelinger Archives

archival illustrations
"A treatise on the diseases of the eye" (1883)
"A treatise on disease of the eye,
incuding anatomy of the organ" (1868)

additional graphic elements
The Noun Project

music
"Urbanizer"
"Fear of Neural Nets"
"Quantum"
by Nguyên Khôi Nguyên

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