Top 10 Technologies Inspired by Nature

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 16 February 2012, 21:21 IST   |    5 Comments
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2. Cancer-cure based on Viruses: Engineers, scientists, doctors, and computer engineers are all working together to cure diseases like cancer, and one solution they have come up with involves delivering the cure to individual infected cells. They are building medical nanoparticles that can sniff out cancer cells, and deliver the cure to exactly the right cell, just like how viruses determine which cells to infect.