{"id":107428,"date":"2020-05-21T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-disguise-cancer-hunting-nanorobots-as-blood-cells"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:05:09","slug":"scientists-disguise-cancer-hunting-nanorobots-as-blood-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-disguise-cancer-hunting-nanorobots-as-blood-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-disguise-cancer-hunting-nanorobots-as-blood-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to find and treat cancerous tumors, a team of scientists is working on an aggressive new approach that involves a swarm of tiny, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/cancer-nanobots-cancer-cells\">cancer-killing robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to inject the nanobots, which are engineered to look and travel like white blood cells, into a patient\u2019s veins and move them around inside the body with powerful magnets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur vision was to create the next-generation vehicle for minimally invasive targeted drug delivery that can reach even deeper tissues inside the body with even more difficult access routes than what was previously possible,\u201d Metin Sitti, Director of Physical Intelligence at the Max Planck Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2020-05-bioinspired-micro-robot-based-white-blood.html\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to find and treat cancerous tumors, a team of scientists is working on an aggressive new approach that involves a swarm of tiny, cancer-killing robots. The idea is to inject the nanobots, which are engineered to look and travel like white blood cells, into a patient\u2019s veins and move them around inside the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}