{"id":29291,"date":"2016-08-23T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/u-of-california-nano-submarines-could-change-healthcare-says-nanoengineer-professor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:54:36","slug":"u-of-california-nano-submarines-could-change-healthcare-says-nanoengineer-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/u-of-california-nano-submarines-could-change-healthcare-says-nanoengineer-professor","title":{"rendered":"U of California: Nano submarines could change healthcare, says nanoengineer professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-of-california-nano-submarines-could-change-healthcare-says-nanoengineer-professor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebirth of the 1960s cult classic \u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d; however, this time its not a movie.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When asked what exactly a \u201cnano submarine\u201d was, University of California San Diego chair of nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang described it as like something taken from the 1966 film <em>Fantastic Voyage<\/em>, where medical personnel board a submarine were shrunk to microscopic size to travel through the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat and save his life.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Wang said his team was getting closer to the goal of using nano submarines in a variety of ways, minus the shrunken humans and sabotage of the 1966 film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like the <em>Fantastic Voyage<\/em> movie, where you want to improve therapeutic and diagnostic abilities through proper timing and proper location to improve efficiency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/genesisnanotech.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/23\/u-of-california-nano-submarines-could-change-healthcare-says-nanoengineer-professor\/\">https:\/\/genesisnanotech.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/23\/u-of-califo...professor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebirth of the 1960s cult classic \u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d; however, this time its not a movie. When asked what exactly a \u201cnano submarine\u201d was, University of California San Diego chair of nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang described it as like something taken from the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, where medical personnel board a submarine were shrunk to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1509,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60659,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions\/60659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}