Nobel chemistry prize goes to molecular machinery

A group of European scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry for developing the “world’s smallest machines” that could be used for drug delivery.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringer claimed the $931,000 prize (8 million Swedish crowns) for work that Feringer described as having “endless” potential, according to Reuters.

“Think of a tiny micro-robot that a doctor in the future will inject into your blood and that goes to search for a cancer cell or goes to deliver a drug, for instance,” Feringer told the news service.

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