{"id":132993,"date":"2021-12-24T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/microbots-in-your-blood-could-help-destroy-cancer"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:00","slug":"microbots-in-your-blood-could-help-destroy-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/microbots-in-your-blood-could-help-destroy-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Microbots in your blood could help destroy cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbots-in-your-blood-could-help-destroy-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4D printing works the same as 3D printing, the only difference is that the printing material allows the object to change shape based on environmental factors.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the bots\u2019 hydrogel material allows them to morph into different shapes when they encounter a change in pH levels \u2014 and cancer cells, as it happens, are usually more acidic than normal cells.<\/p>\n<p>The microrobots were then placed in an iron oxide solution, to give them a magnetic charge.<\/p>\n<p>This combination of shape-shifting and magnetism means the bots could become assassins for cancer \u2014 destroying tumors without the usual collateral damage on the rest of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A school of fish-y microbots could one day swim through your veins and deliver medicine to precise locations in your body \u2014 and cancer patients may be the first people to benefit from this revolution in nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/microbots-in-your-blood-could-help-destroy-cancer\">Continue reading \u201cMicrobots in your blood could help destroy cancer\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4D printing works the same as 3D printing, the only difference is that the printing material allows the object to change shape based on environmental factors. In this case, the bots\u2019 hydrogel material allows them to morph into different shapes when they encounter a change in pH levels \u2014 and cancer cells, as it happens, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1991,11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-4d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132993","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}