
This little robotic bug may soon be crawling through your lungs zapping tissue! Yes, it’s true. Good news is it will zap tumors. For now….dun dun dun
Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a miniature crawling robot, called ViRob, that can crawl through your lungs, find a tumor, and zap it with drugs. The bot, which is one millimeter long and four millimeters from end to end, can snake its way through the body, slipping into blood vessels and navigating through the respiratory and digestive systems, Innerspace style. Full Story
The article also says it can “race through a vein and burrow into an organ” Sounds a bit disturbing, cancer killing bug now and scifi horror movie the next. I can see it now…
July 2nd, 2009 - 7:48 am
What the drug companies don’t realize is that if they finally cure cancer, they’ll still make $$$$$ on high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.
July 2nd, 2009 - 11:51 am
Interesting!!!
July 2nd, 2009 - 2:31 pm
Freaky a bit but fantastic, technology is amazing!!1
July 2nd, 2009 - 8:42 pm
Wow life is turing into a scifi movie
November 8th, 2009 - 8:32 pm
…where can I get mine