Algal Boon
A nebuliser system for delivering drug-loaded microrobots, which in this study are green algae-based, homogeneously throughout the lung for effective treatment of respiratory diseases. Seen here, a falsely-coloured scanning electron microscope image of an algae robot poised with its drug-loaded nanoparticles (orange)
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Image from work by Zhengxing Li, Zhongyuan Guo, Fangyu Zhang and Lei Sun, and colleagues
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Image contributed by the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence
Published in Nature Communications, January 2025
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