Cellular research is changing the way we look at the human body. Our cells have an electromagnetic quality to them. And like the cells in our brain, our body cells have a memory. In other words, cells remember the messages we send to them through our thoughts and emotions. The energy behind our thoughts create cellular activity, and some of that activity isn’t positive. Stress, anxiety, trauma, and other reactions to outside stimuli damage our cells. And that damage continues as new cells take the damaged cells place. So scientists are trying to stop the damage before it manifests throughout the body by using a corkscrew looking nanomotor that takes directions from an external magnetic field.
What medical scientists want to do is find new ways of studying what goes on in our cells. And they also want to stop cellular deterioration at the source. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore are using a nanomotor small enough to fit inside a single cell to carry drugs to the parts of a cell that need repair. Finding a solution that stops cellular deterioration before it normally occurs isn’t new. Prior efforts to insert objects in cells disrupt the cells and most of those earlier tiny devices are obsolete now.
But the new nanomotor from the Indian Institute of Science can go into a cell and not cause cellular damage. The new nanomotor’s composition is mostly silica, according to an article in phys.org. The article claims a spinning external coil generates a magnetic field. Since the cells have an electromagnetic quality to them, the nanomotor is able to spin within the cells. When the angle of the spinning coil changes, the nanomotor will turn where the researchers want it to turn inside the cells.
Researchers tested several sizes of nanomotors, and the smaller ones work better than larger ones. Small nanomotors have more flexibility inside the cells. The idea is nanomotors will at some point be able to block the blood supply to cancerous tumors. There is still work to do in order to fine-tune these tiny nanomotors, but the consensus is they could help in the treatment of several serious illnesses. Nanomotor research is in the early stage, according to Indian Institute of Science scientists, but there is hope they can design a nanomotor that will lead to the development of direct drug delivery to the cells.
