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Magnetically guided millirobots deliver targeted drugs to beating hearts

Johns Hopkins University engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.

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Scientists Built Tiny Robots That Could Treat Dangerous Heart Infections from Within

Two magnetic robots work together to avoid invasive surgery.

12 hours ago·Romania

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Magnetically guided millirobots deliver targeted drugs to beating hearts

Johns Hopkins University engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.

15 hours ago·Mona Vale, Australia

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It Sounds Like Science Fiction, but It Could Reduce Open-Heart Surgery.

Miniature "milirobots" controlled by a magnetic field could in the future deliver drugs directly to infected tissue in the beating heart, reducing the need for open-heart surgery and lengthy antibiotic therapy.

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Scientists build pencil-tip robots to deliver medicine inside a heart

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have built a pair of magnetic robots, each about as wide as a pencil tip, designed to deliver antibiotics directly to infected heart tissue. The prototype targets endocarditis, a bacterial infection of the heart's inner lining or valves that affects...

12 hours ago·Ghana

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