{"id":177665,"date":"2023-12-07T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/researchers-create-3d-dna-nanorobots"},"modified":"2023-12-07T19:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:25:50","slug":"researchers-create-3d-dna-nanorobots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/researchers-create-3d-dna-nanorobots","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create 3D DNA nanorobots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-3d-dna-nanorobots3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at universities in New York and Ningbo, China, say they have created tiny robots built from DNA that can reproduce themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Such nanorobots could one day launch search-and-destroy missions against <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a> within a human\u2019s bloodstream without the need for surgery or collect toxic waste from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny mechanism is so small that 1,000 of them could fit into the width of a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at universities in New York and Ningbo, China, say they have created tiny robots built from DNA that can reproduce themselves. Such nanorobots could one day launch search-and-destroy missions against cancer cells within a human\u2019s bloodstream without the need for surgery or collect toxic waste from the ocean. The tiny mechanism is so small [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177665","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}