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New student team aims to create biomachines that destroy pollutants, cancer cells (Cornell News Service)

Submitted by iw on February 18, 2009 – 6:33 amNo Comment

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Microscopic, living machines that sense toxins in the air or deliver drugs in the body — the stuff of science fiction? A new Cornell student project team is working to make such things the stuff of reality.

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