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This Microrobot Could Save Your Life

This is a tiny robot that delivers drugs exactly where they’re needed in the body - and nowhere else. It could one day save your life.
It’s a tiny bead made of gelatin and magnetic particles with the drug dosage inside. It can deliver a drug right to the location of a blood clot to dissolve it, or it could be used to bring drugs directly to a tumor…
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DOI: 10.1126/science.adx1708
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Cleo Abram

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