{"id":176869,"date":"2023-11-27T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/medical-nanobots-could-communicate-by-releasing-molecules-into-bloodstream"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:23:00","slug":"medical-nanobots-could-communicate-by-releasing-molecules-into-bloodstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/medical-nanobots-could-communicate-by-releasing-molecules-into-bloodstream","title":{"rendered":"Medical nanobots could communicate by releasing molecules into bloodstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/medical-nanobots-could-communicate-by-releasing-molecules-into-bloodstream.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Implants and tiny machines could eventually be working inside our bodies to help treat disease or monitor activity, but letting them communicate is tricky. Now scientists at EPFL have developed a system whereby devices can communicate by releasing molecules into a patient\u2019s bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>Biomedical implants play a key role in healthcare, monitoring activity in organs like the heart or brain, while recent research is investigating how <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nanobot-micromotors-deliver-nanoparticles-living-creature\/35700\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">nanoscale robots<\/a> might one day <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/millirobot-movement\/53196\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">swim or crawl<\/a> through the body to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/sound-powered-speedy-microbots-drug-delivery\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">fight disease<\/a>. But these systems have a communication issue.<\/p>\n<p>Running wires through the body is not only impractical, it\u2019s an infection risk. And wireless technologies like radio, light and Bluetooth don\u2019t travel through human tissue very efficiently, drastically limiting their range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implants and tiny machines could eventually be working inside our bodies to help treat disease or monitor activity, but letting them communicate is tricky. Now scientists at EPFL have developed a system whereby devices can communicate by releasing molecules into a patient\u2019s bloodstream. Biomedical implants play a key role in healthcare, monitoring activity in organs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176869","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\/176869","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}