When you're trying to make a nanobot, it's not much use unless it can move around and we want real speed because we're so tired of politicians slowing everything down for no good reason. For the kind of speed we need, we want swimmers who can do five body lengths per second and even Mark Spitz couldn't do that. What we need are sperm because those little wigglers have all the speed we need. (Science Daily: Fast, efficient sperm tails inspire nanobiotechnology)
The researchers weren't so much studying the magic of a sperm cell's tail, captivating as we're (cough) sure that must be, but rather they were studying how they get the juice to work so hard.
They were inspired to study how nanoparticles could gain biological functions through the enzymes that drive sperm tails, which turn sugar into lactate and energy so quickly that sperm can speed along at five body lengths per second.
The researchers weren't so much studying the magic of a sperm cell's tail, captivating as we're (cough) sure that must be, but rather they were studying how they get the juice to work so hard.
They were inspired to study how nanoparticles could gain biological functions through the enzymes that drive sperm tails, which turn sugar into lactate and energy so quickly that sperm can speed along at five body lengths per second.
- Science Daily
We see from human exertion that we can only do it so long before we accumulate so much backup from the enzymatic process to drive the muscles that they get tired, cramp, etc. It seems sperm cells never run out of juice that way so the researchers want to understand how they do it.
It's kind of comical to think of medications being delivered by nanobots which look like sperm cells but their tails don't seem of much interest. We have seen articles previously about nanobots with 'wheels' and the Age of Robots was kind of cool but these biobots go into a world of madness we have never before seen.
The Age of Robots is really just a super-sophisticated extension of the Industrial Revolution but the biobots bring a different type of revolution which goes well past that. Machines made from organic tissues bring a world of potential sci fi nightmares we have never previously enjoyed.
Note: we have observed the incredible powers and phenomenal accuracy of nanobots described in previous papers in the way they can attack cancer cells but we don't mean those ones. We mean the biobots which come from Johnny Appleseed and his home CRISPR kit as that's the kind of stuff which ends up in "12 Monkeys" to kill us all.
Ed: you will already be dead!
Poor me (larfs).
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