{"id":79318,"date":"2018-06-06T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clear-bacteria-and-toxins-from-blood"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:14:52","slug":"ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clear-bacteria-and-toxins-from-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clear-bacteria-and-toxins-from-blood","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasound-powered nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qe_uWIlySWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"MRSA bacterium on nanorobot\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clear-bacteria-and-toxins-from-blood2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"433\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>MRSA bacterium captured by a hybrid cell membrane-coated nanorobot (colored scanning electron microscope image and black and white image below) (credit: Esteban-Fern\u00e1ndez de \u00c1vila\/Science Robotics)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><em><\/em>Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered nanorobots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria and the toxins they produce.<\/p>\n<p>These proof-of-concept nanorobots could one day offer a safe and efficient way to detoxify and decontaminate biological threat agents \u2014 providing an fast alternative to the multiple, broad-spectrum antibiotics currently used to treat life-threatening pathogens like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mrsa\/healthcare\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MRSA bacteria<\/a> (an antibiotic-resistant staph strain). MRSA is considered a serious worldwide threat to public health.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clear-bacteria-and-toxins-from-blood\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultrasound-powered-nanorobots-clea...from-blood<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRSA bacterium captured by a hybrid cell membrane-coated nanorobot (colored scanning electron microscope image and black and white image below) (credit: Esteban-Fern\u00e1ndez de \u00c1vila\/Science Robotics) Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered nanorobots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria and the toxins they produce. These proof-of-concept nanorobots could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79318","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79546,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79318\/revisions\/79546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}