A research study, with the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC), the Centre for Biological Research Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC), and the Supramolecular Systems in Nanobiomedicine group, presents the use of nanochips for studying and modulating the mechanical part of cells. These nanometric devices, which prevent cell division through mechanical processes, can be used as “mechanical” drugs to alter or even destroy cells, which opens new opportunities, in the field of nanomedicine, for new future therapeutical treatments
Intracellular Mechanical Drugs Induce Cell-Cycle Altering and Cell Death. Arjona M.I., Duch M., Hernández-Pinto A., Vázquez P., Agusil J.P., Gómez-Martínez R., Redondo-Horcajo M., Amirthalingam E., Pérez-García L., Suárez T., Plaza J.A. Advanced Materials, 2022.
Image: These nanochips are star-shaped devices, they have a 22-micron diameter and a thickness between 50 nm and 50 nm. By, CSIC
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