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Magnet-Steered Nano-Fish Could Deliver Drugs and Sweep Body Toxins

Posted by timothy on from the plus-they-understand-all-languages dept.

dkatana writes: David Warner writes on InformationWeek how "nanoengineers" from UC San Diego have created microscopic fish powered by hydrogen peroxide that use magnets to steer themselves. "The "fish" are powerful enough to swim through your bloodstream, removing toxins or bringing medicine directly to crucial parts of your body, as cells in your blood stream do. Given enough time, the fish could be used to deliver drugs directly to cancer tumors or parts of your body that are too fragile for surgery."

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  1. Oh good grief by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The nanotech fanbois are almost as bad as the Space Nutters. Look, it's been 30 years since K Eric Drexler wrote The Engines of Creation. I was a huge fanboi back then too.

    Now I realize that even though nanotechnology already exists in cells, we simply don't have the theory to really understand what is going on here.

    Until such a time, this is all sci-fi speculation.