{"id":149999,"date":"2022-11-12T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-use-magnets-to-deliver-cancer-killing-micro-robots-into-the-body"},"modified":"2022-11-12T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:23:21","slug":"scientists-use-magnets-to-deliver-cancer-killing-micro-robots-into-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-use-magnets-to-deliver-cancer-killing-micro-robots-into-the-body","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use magnets to deliver cancer-killing \u2018micro-robots\u2019 into the body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-magnets-to-deliver-cancer-killing-micro-robots-into-the-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The micro-robots consist of a special kind of bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have conceived of a new way to deliver cancer-killing compounds, called enterotoxins, to tumors using bionic bacteria that are steered by a magnetic field, according to a report by Inverse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancer is such a complex disease, it\u2019s hard to combat it with one weapon,\u201d said Simone Sch\u00fcrle-Finke, a micro-roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, and one of the authors of the new study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wildpixel\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>These bacteria function as \u201cmicro-robots\u201d that can hunt down and rally around a specific tumor. They then release their own naturally produced anti-cancer chemicals and shrink the tumor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The micro-robots consist of a special kind of bacteria. Scientists have conceived of a new way to deliver cancer-killing compounds, called enterotoxins, to tumors using bionic bacteria that are steered by a magnetic field, according to a report by Inverse. \u201cCancer is such a complex disease, it\u2019s hard to combat it with one weapon,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149999","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=149999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}