{"id":216942,"date":"2025-07-01T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tiny-light-sensitive-magnetic-robots-can-clear-up-bacterial-infections-in-sinuses"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:04:24","slug":"tiny-light-sensitive-magnetic-robots-can-clear-up-bacterial-infections-in-sinuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tiny-light-sensitive-magnetic-robots-can-clear-up-bacterial-infections-in-sinuses","title":{"rendered":"Tiny light-sensitive magnetic robots can clear up bacterial infections in sinuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-light-sensitive-magnetic-robots-can-clear-up-bacterial-infections-in-sinuses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny magnetic bots that are activated by light can clear bacterial infections deep in the sinus cavities, then be expelled by blowing out the nose.<\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adt0720\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Robotics<\/i> unveiled copper single\u2013atom\u2013doped bismuth oxoiodide microbots, each smaller than a grain of salt, that can be tracked and guided to the location of infection via X-ray imaging, thus providing a precise, minimally invasive therapeutic strategy for managing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sinusitis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sinusitis<\/a> clinically.<\/p>\n<p>Sinusitis is a common respiratory condition often linked to biofilm produced by bacteria like Streptococcus pyogenes. This condition causes inflammation of the sinus lining and leads to symptoms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nasal+congestion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nasal congestion<\/a>, reduced sense of smell, facial pain, and, in some dire cases, even memory impairment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny magnetic bots that are activated by light can clear bacterial infections deep in the sinus cavities, then be expelled by blowing out the nose. A new study published in Science Robotics unveiled copper single\u2013atom\u2013doped bismuth oxoiodide microbots, each smaller than a grain of salt, that can be tracked and guided to the location of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216942","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\/216942","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=216942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}