Where Are My Medical Nanobots?


	Where Are My Medical Nanobots?

Silkweaver

10-24-2008 9:32 AM

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nanotechnology, science, medicine, bio mimetics

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This is a micro article about micro machines.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ac1c7b19-efe2-468b-9890-209baed25547/97F96516-D36E-471A-979D-C5B4D283569A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots" href="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/7A91E5B4-6B5A-4EC2-9769-183546FD06E0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">When will nanobots clean out my arteries?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">While medical molecular machines are not likely to appear in the clinic soon, there's a decent amount of research going into the development of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobot" linkindex="56">nanoscale robotics</A>, and not only for therapeutic use.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">One could easily imagine these widgets appearing in diagnostic assays and nano-scale manufacturing. Before we can hope to command tiny robots to crawl or swim to a damaged or <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenosis" linkindex="57" set="yes">stenotic</A> artery to effect repairs, we first need to build tiny robots capable of crawling or swimming.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">Luckily, molecules that can crawl already exist in nature.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/686qX5yzksU&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">Not all tiny robots are nano, of course. <A href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2005/09/14.html" linkindex="63">Dartmouth's "inchworm"</A> is relatively huge at over a hundred microns in length, and this six-legged crab-bot is even larger - the chassis is made of polymer with an engine composed of rat heart tissue.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XJZ_jejWDfc" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">The <A href="http://www.pnas.org/content/103/37/13618.short" linkindex="67" set="yes">micromotor below</A> harnesses bacteria to turn its rotors.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/0A3DE844-0F44-4C44-9F43-5068B9879BE8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5066893/where-are-my-medical-nanobots">If you can't crawl, you're going to have to swim. 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