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Darko Manevski

Silicon Chips That Can Kill Implanted In Living Cells By Spanish Scientists

HeLa cell with a star-shaped silicon chip inside cell. (CSIC/Zenger)

Silicon chips 50 nanometres thick, which makes them as thin as a thousandth part of a hair, have been successfully implanted into human cells to monitor life at its most basic level.

Programmed to watch and observe, they can also be programmed to stop cell division or to kill the cells in which they are implanted, offering hopes of new ways of treating cancerous tumors.

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