Nanotech News #5: Cancer-Killing Nanobots?

I finally got to record an episode about nanobots, which is a HOT
topic in nanotechnology. Many news outlets have covered nanobots
in recent years, particularly because of their potential to
target and destroy tumors in the body. But...what exactly is a
nanobot? How can we make a nanobot kill cancer cells? We should
probably learn more about them before we stick them in our
bloodstream. That's what this episode is for!


Reference to publication about controlling nanoscale beads in
cells:


X. Wang et al. "Intracellular manipulation and measurement with
multipole magnetic tweezers." Science Robotics, Vol. 4, Issue 28,
March 2019. DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aav6180


Nanotechnology World article about nanoscale bead control:


https://www.nanotechnologyworld.org/single-post/2019/03/18/Researchers-create-nano-bot-to-probe-inside-human-cells


A free-to-view review about nanorobotics:


http://ijpsr.com/bft-article/nanorobots-a-review/?view=fulltext


Some random patent from the 2000s involving nanorobotics:


https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2008063473&tab=PCTDESCRIPTION&maxRec=1000


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