Caltech Creates Minuscule Robots for Targeted Drug Delivery (VIDEO)

California Institute of Technology

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An interdisciplinary team led by Caltech’s Wei Gao has created tiny bubble-like microrobots that can deliver therapeutics right where they are needed and then be absorbed by the body. Using the bots, the team successfully delivered therapeutics that decreased the size of bladder tumors in mice. A paper describing the work appears in the journal Science Robotics.

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