Shape-Morphing Microrobots Deliver Drugs to Cancer Cells | Headline Science

Delivering drugs directly to cancer cells could help reduce the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have made shape-morphing microrobots that can be guided with magnets to cancer cells. ACS’ Headline Science reveals how these devices travel and release their chemotherapy cargo.

“Environmentally Adaptive Shape-Morphing Microrobots for Localized Cancer Cell Treatment” - Jiawen Li, Ph.D., Li Zhang, Ph.D., and Dong Wu, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)

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[jeffguevara]

I pray that you can really make this work. I've lost friends & colleagues to this dreadful disease.

[riccardoossanna]

Amazing feat but I’m quite curious whether this technology would be relevant in vivo.

[rameshaly]

It will be such an amazing invention to the humanity 👏🏼👏🏼

[fourseasonsofangelfire]

Go team go! Let’s make cancer a thing of the past!

[CoachJurieW]

This is pretty amazing! Would love to see this make an impact in the treatment of cancer

[Gearhart.]

If feasible, is there any reason why you couldn't inject the chemo drug directly into the cancerous tumor with a syringe?

[张一木-ny]

Are there any thesis about this process?

[mrdriver]

Sir what design should our cancer killing nanobots be.

Bob: *Fish and Crabs*

Give this man a raise

[gondala]

I am just curious, instead of using "micro-robots" that travel all over our vein, why don't create a drug that can be steered to any position in our body?

[howleme]

amazing this is Beyond compression ❤️❤️

[MaksymCzech]

Is it me or are those fish really THICC?

[pitt]

of course it will be used as a weapon, and in years to come we will see the damage

[blazeww]

Haven't they shown sound literally breaking apart cancer cells and viral cells. So why the robots and shit....

[intratis]

So you're finally using Professor Eric Laithwaites techniques, but no mention of him