Tiny robots treat mouse stomach ulcers

• Autores: Timothy Revell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3140, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Robotic drug deliveries could soon be treating diseases inside the body. For the first time, they have been used to tackle bacterial infections in the stomachs of mice. Now a team led by Joseph Wang at the University of California, San Diego, has found that using micromotors to deliver a dose of antibiotics to mice with ulcers is a more effective treatment than regular pills. These autonomous vehicles are the width of a human hair, and they delivered antibiotics every day for five days. The next steps are to look at a larger animal study, followed by eventual trials in humans.