Tiny robots thinner than a human hair could help fight cancer tumours, reveals study
TINY robots thinner than a human hair could help fight cancer tumours, a study has found.
Scientists have crafted special 3D-printed microbots able to directly take drugs to cancer cells.
They are only 30 microns — thousands of a millimetre — in diameter, and can easily turn from solid to liquid and back.
They can survive stomach acid and would pass out of the body in urine.
A trial in mice has already helped to shrink the size of bladder tumours.
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