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Antibiotic-loaded microalgae treat bacterial pneumonia in mice
- didactickhan 4y agoAny way to bypass the paywall?
- mjfl 4y agoTiny robots do it all the time. They're called immune cells.
- pavlov 4y agoThose are not really our robots when we don’t have the API.
- zmgsabst 4y agoThey’re as much “robots” as drug coated algae. > Here we use click chemistry to attach antibiotic-loaded neutrophil membrane-coated polymeric nanoparticles to natural microalgae, thus creating hybrid microrobots for the active delivery of antibiotics in the lungs in vivo. > Overall, these findings highlight the attractive functions of algae–nanoparticle hybrid microrobots for the active in vivo delivery of therapeutics to the lungs in intensive care unit settings. This is fascinating, but not “robots”: > A robot is a machine — especially one programmable by a computer — capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
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- robotresearcher 4y agoWe have the API in almost every cell of our bodies. We don’t have good docs though.
- moring 4y agoIf "we have the API but not the docs" is a thing, what's the meaning of "we don't have the API" then? Not being able to access the API at all? Failing auth/auth?
- iopq 4y agoWe don't have the API = we don't have the DNA for this
- hhjinks 4y agoIsn't it the other way? The DNA is the docs, but we don't have a way to interface with the system reliably.
- mjfl 4y agoI'd say the DNA is somewhere between machine code and bare metal integrated logic.
- uwagar 4y agogod is a typical programmer. doesnt like to write docs.
- jayp1418 4y agoNot your code; not your bot ;D
- unhammer 4y agoNot Invented Here?
- KerryJones 4y agoNanorobots have been a subject that I keep thinking will lead amazing breakthroughs, it seems like they are coming, just much slower than expected
- LetThereBeLight 4y agoBy "robots" they mean algae cells coated with a drug.
- justinjlynn 4y agoInterestingly, this employment of algal cells to deliver drugs is far more in keeping with the original meaning of the word which became "robot" - namely, "robota", which in many languages refers to forced work or slavery. So, in a very real sense, these are robots.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoThese are robots in the sense that the origin of the word has this meaning, but in contemporary English use "robot" refers to some kind of electromechanical machine, or sometimes a piece of software. But in my mind engineered algal cells don't really fit with contemporary English use of the word.
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- Rebelgecko 4y agoYeah, even though they don't fit the contemporary English usage, this employment of algal cells to deliver drugs is in keeping with the original meaning of the word which became "robot" - namely, "robota", which in many languages refers to forced work or slavery. So, in a very real sense, these are robots.
- ElCheapo 4y agoIt's so crazy to think that we as humans can look at our lungs and clearly see what's wrong with them and what it would take to solve the problem but we can't simply order our immune cells to deal with the matter consciously and are at the mercy of a system we have a murky relationship with. Instead, just like CRISPR, we have to find already existing organisms or mechanisms that do something and try to get them inside of us to carry the job
- johnny22 4y agohow about how anesthesia works.
- zo1 4y agoHow does anesthesia work? What are you referring to exactly?
- airtonix 4y ago
- ElCheapo 4y agoIf you know a way to order yourself into anesthesia I think some kind of million dollar prize is waiting for you
- gjadi 4y agoI think hypnosis is sometimes used for anesthesia. So maybe self-hypnosis is also possible. After a quick look at wikipedia I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hypnosis#Childbirth_anesthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hypnosis#Childbirth_anest... Not sure how solid this is though.
- antihero 4y agoWhat if you did it and couldn't order yourself out though?
- xiphias2 4y agoRay Kurzweil had a prediction that by 2030 nanobots will cure diseases (before we have the technology to cure aging, which many people predict to be about 15 years from now, Ray predicts earlier). While it's not inorganic molecules (Ray is not specific about technology implementations on purpose), immunotherapy is already getting better, and this looks like one more interesting example.
- gpt5 4y ago> before we have the technology to cure aging, which many people predict to be about 15 years from now, Ray predicts 12 This number seems oddly small and specific? If aging is "cured" in humans in 12-15 years, you would expect it to be already cured today in animal models. Is there such an example where we were able to make an animal immortal?
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- jeroenvlek 4y agoMy mom used to work at an institute for Vitality and Aging and the leading professor there liked to say that "the first person that will reach a 1000 years of age has already been born"
- highwaylights 4y agoIt wasn't Aubrey De Grey was it? In any case I'm skeptical for the same reasons as the parent. Until we can do it to a mouse reliably, it's at least 20 years away. The other thing that people miss is we have cures for a whole lot of things that people still die from in many parts of the world. If this technology was available, I don't see any encouraging precedent that it would become cost effective enough in any normal time horizon to be available to normies like the rest of us.
- jeroenvlek 4y agoNo, this was at a less famous institute in Leiden, The Netherlands
- uwagar 4y agowow. not long b4 they send it as payload on your next booster.
- noobermin 4y agoAh to be born two decades later, may be I wouldn't have the damage to my lungs from pneumonia. Would have killed to have this treatment then.
- brunorsini 4y agoThis made me think of Calico/Google trying to develop early cancer detection systems. If I recall correctly, they wanted you to swallow something that would be wandering in the bloodstream, ready to attach to loose cancer cells. That combo could then theoretically be measured by a wristband of sorts that we would wear around. I remember seeing that demo 8 or 9 years ago. Yet here we are, still waiting for the pancreas to start hurting, when it's obviously too late to do anything about it. If only we had good incentives around preventive care...