Nanorobots moving through the bloodstream to repair damage

Robin Farmanfarmaian writes at Linked In about

a swarm of microrobots (also called nanobots or nanorobots) could be injected into the body to deliver a highly targeted dose of a drug or radioactive seeds to treat cancer, or to clear a blood clot, or perform a tissue biopsy, or to build a scaffold around an area where new cells need to be grown.

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Developing nanorobots

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A walking molecule, so small that it cannot be observed directly with a microscope, has been recorded taking its first nanometre-sized steps.

It’s the first time that anyone has shown in real time that such a tiny object – termed a ‘small molecule walker’ – has taken a series of steps. The breakthrough, made by Oxford University chemists, is a significant milestone on the long road towards developing ‘nanorobots’.

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