«Platinum and gold are not harmful to the body in these small quantities,» he says, adding that his team's work paves the way for
creating nanomotor - based sensing systems for monitoring chemicals — including glucose — in the body, although a practical application is still years away.
Proteins called kinesins, for example, are natural
nanomotors that support cellular functions such as mitosis (the chromosomal process that
creates two nuclei from one parent nucleus) and meiosis (when the number of chromosomes per cell is reduced by one half).