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Mike Wehner
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Cancer treatments have improved dramatically over the past few decades. Many types of cancer have a high survival rate thanks to medical interventions that can slow or stop the growth of tumors and even eliminate them entirely. Despite that, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, right behind heart disease, and there's still no go-to cure that is applicable to all or even the majority of cancer cases. It would be great if that changed, and a startup in California thinks that tiny robots might be the answer.
The company is Bionaut Labs, and as the Los Angeles Times reports, the team has been toiling in the hopes of perfecting a robot-powered drug delivery system that is so tiny it looks like a speck of dirt to the naked eye. Yes, drug-carrying robots may ultimately help eliminate tumors by "driving" to them inside of your body.
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The answer to cancer might be these tiny robots originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 10:34:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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