Sperm powered robots

October 27th, 2008 by The Head Rotor

Think we make this stuff up? No chance, honkies: it’s for real.

[T]he 10 [sperm] proteins involved in glycolysis have been tweaked so they stick to a solid scaffold-like support running the length of the tail while still maintaining their activity. Travis and Mukai borrowed that approach to re-jigger the proteins so they stuck instead to the surface of a tiny gold chip covered with nickel ions.

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