Researchers Found a Way to Send Tiny Robots Into Mouse Brains

gizmodo ^ | 03/24/2021 | Isaac Schultz

[BenLurkin]

The team’s research was published today in the journal Science Robotics. It comes on the heels of previous research by members of the same team, which saw liquid-coated nanorobots remotely propelled through the jelly-like fluid of the eye.

[R]esearchers use a rotating magnetic field to pull them around remotely. On microscales—we’re talking incremental movements about 1% the width of a hair—the researchers were able to make the hybrid bio-bots wend paths like in the video game Snake. They’re dubbed “neutrobots” because they infiltrate the brain in the casing of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.

It ultimately took Wu’s team eight years to actualize the microscopic robot swarms capable of bridging the gap between the rodent bloodstream in the animal’s tail, where the bots were injected, and its brain, where gliomas—tumors that emerge from the brain’s glial cells—resided. Part of the issue is that the mice’s white blood cells didn’t dig the flavor of the magnetic robots. To overcome that issue, Wu’s team coated the bots in bits of E. coli membrane, which the white blood cells easily recognize as a unwelcome invader. That made the robots much more palatable, and the white blood cells enveloped them. From inside those cells, the robots were then able to roll the cells toward the brain; a Trojan horse for the 21st century... The neutrobots made it into the brains and were able to deliver the drug directly to the targeted tumors.

Currently, experts lack the ability to see what the robots are doing clearly in real time, which would be vital for any medical use of the droids down the line. But in the rat race of robotics research, it’s clear that humans are pushing their inanimate swarms in the direction of progress.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Can they do that to Democrats and reprogram their Marxist, totalitarian thoughts and actions?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Don’t tell me let me guess. It was the covid vaccine. 🤔