{"id":147399,"date":"2022-10-02T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/tiny-robots-have-successfully-cleared-pneumonia-from-the-lungs-of-mice"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:23:58","slug":"tiny-robots-have-successfully-cleared-pneumonia-from-the-lungs-of-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/tiny-robots-have-successfully-cleared-pneumonia-from-the-lungs-of-mice","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Robots Have Successfully Cleared Pneumonia From The Lungs of Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-robots-have-successfully-cleared-pneumonia-from-the-lungs-of-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been able to direct a swarm of microscopic swimming robots to clear out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pneumonia\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">pneumonia<\/a> microbes in the lungs of mice, raising hopes that a similar treatment could be developed to treat deadly bacterial pneumonia in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The microbots are made from algae cells and covered with a layer of antibiotic nanoparticles. The algae provide movement through the lungs, which is key to the treatment being targeted and effective.<\/p>\n<p>In experiments, the infections in the mice treated with the algae bots all cleared up, whereas the mice that weren\u2019t treated all died within three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been able to direct a swarm of microscopic swimming robots to clear out pneumonia microbes in the lungs of mice, raising hopes that a similar treatment could be developed to treat deadly bacterial pneumonia in humans. The microbots are made from algae cells and covered with a layer of antibiotic nanoparticles. The algae [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147399","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\/147399","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}