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Friday, March 26, 2021

Tiny robots can now smuggle drugs into brain tumors (by Sarah Wells)

Title:
Tiny robots can now smuggle drugs into brain tumors
 
Author:
Sarah Wells
 
Published:
Inverse, 24 March 2021
 
From the article:
The future of medicine is going to be hand-delivered — but not by mail carriers. Instead, life-saving drugs will be parceled, smuggled, and transported in the body via tiny, self-propelled microbots. 
 
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics, a research team in China designed a new kind of bio-hybrid microbot that uses clever biological disguises to get even closer to the source of disease in the body in order to provide the most targeted (and effective) treatment.