{"id":72713,"date":"2017-09-17T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/bacteriobot-holds-a-lot-of-promise-to-treat-cancer-says-doctor"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T22:22:29","slug":"bacteriobot-holds-a-lot-of-promise-to-treat-cancer-says-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/bacteriobot-holds-a-lot-of-promise-to-treat-cancer-says-doctor","title":{"rendered":"Bacteriobot Holds \u2018A Lot Of Promise\u2019 To Treat Cancer, Says Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteriobot-holds-a-lot-of-promise-to-treat-cancer-says-doctor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new self-propelled, cancer-seeking bacteriobot swims right into the tumor and zaps it with a deadly payload of cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The recently perfected #bacteriobot holds \u2018a lot of promise\u2019 in treating #cancer says a physician. Cancer patients at a hospital in Montreal may be the first to be treated with these #nanorobots built out of bacteria.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: The recently perfected bacteriobot holds \u2018a lot of promise\u2019 in treating cancer says a physician. Cancer patients at a hospital in Montreal may be the first to be treated with nanorobots built out of bacteria. The new <\/em> <em>self-propelled, cancer-seeking bacteriobot swims right into the tumor and zaps it with a deadly payload of cancer drugs<\/em>. <em>[Cover image: Getty Images\/iStock.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Futurist <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/futurist-ray-kurzweil-takes-100-pills-daily-to-live-forever\/\">Ray Kurzweil once said<\/a> that within decades, we will have <em>nanobots<\/em>, swimming through our veins keeping us healthy. The tiny robots will keep us healthy by correcting DNA errors, removing toxins, extending our memories and zapping cancer. The Futurist said that back in 2007, and his prophecy is becoming a reality, at least in the treatment of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Years spent developing bacteria-based nanobots are finally bearing fruit, and thanks to progress made by a physician at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) in Montreal, cancer patients may be the first to be treated with tumor-killing nanorobots. The JGH doctors are using a newly-developed self-propelled, cancer-seeking nanorobot built out of bacteria and referred to as a <em>bacteriobot, <\/em>an amalgam of the words bacteria and nanorobot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/bacteriobots-bacteria-based-nanorobots-known-nanodocs-bacteriobot-holds-promise-treat-cancer-says-doctor\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/bacteriobots-bacteria-based-nanoro...ys-doctor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new self-propelled, cancer-seeking bacteriobot swims right into the tumor and zaps it with a deadly payload of cancer drugs. The recently perfected #bacteriobot holds \u2018a lot of promise\u2019 in treating #cancer says a physician. Cancer patients at a hospital in Montreal may be the first to be treated with these #nanorobots built out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}