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Tiny robots that travel through human blood to deliver life-saving drugs

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Researchers have developed tiny robots they hope can travel through the bloodstream carrying drugs. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, call the devices "microrollers".

They carry cancer drugs that they hope can be delivered directly to cancer cells. It is reported they can move along walls of blood vessels, and they will be tested on animals soon.

Researcher Metin Setti said: “If you come to a junction in a vascular system where you need to take the right path and if you miss it, then you could go back and go to the right one. “The rollers need to carry enough cancer drugs which is why we need to have them in large numbers. “But since we can locally take them to the right target, and deliver it there, we don’t

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