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Magnetic Particles Propel the Way to Treatment of Deep Eye Structures (14 of 15)

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Magnetic Particles Propel the Way to Treatment of Deep Eye Structures (14 of 15)

video: Controlled motion of slippery micropropellers in the vitreous under a rotating magnetic field with a strength of 8 mT and a frequency of 50 Hz. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 2nd, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Wu at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems]


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