Nanoengineers from the University of California, San Diego, have created tiny robots called microrobots that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medicine, and be used to treat life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. The microrobots safely eliminated the bacteria that causes pneumonia in
While untreated mice perished after three days, however, all mice treated with the microrobots survived past 30 days., have created tiny robots called microrobots that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medicine, and be used to treat life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia.
Colored SEM image of a pneumonia-fighting microrobot made of an algae cell covered with biodegradable polymer nanoparticles . The nanoparticles contain antibiotics and are coated with neutrophil cell membranes. Credit: Fangyu Zhang and Zhengxing Li “Our goal is to do targeted drug delivery into more challenging parts of the body, like the lungs. And we want to do it in a way that is safe, easy, biocompatible, and long-lasting,” said Zhang. “That is what we’ve demonstrated in this work.”
The team’s approach is so effective because it puts the medication right where it needs to go rather than diffusing it through the rest of the body.
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