Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Our Sperm Engine? It’s a V8 — 8 Flagella Mounted on the Crankcase
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 adenosine [...]




