Blood clots, cancer, and damaged brain cells - these are the last words anyone wants to hear at the doctor's office. They're also the stuff that scientists are hoping to be able to fight one daywith nanotechnology.
A newstudy released todayin the journal Nature Communications details just how scientists are hoping to transform modern medicine with very tiny robots.
Selman Sakar fromEPFLand Hen-Wei Huang fromETHZ have worked together to create prototypes of nanosized robots that could actually enter human bodies. While they haven't yet tested these little robots in people, they hope to do so soon. Perhaps, in the not too distant future, the nanosized robots might do things that are too microscopic for doctors to currently perform and are too sensitive for common drug therapies to handle.