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I think we've already got such robots and they're components of our immune system. What we need is a means of programming/issuing commands to them more effecti

• danieltillett 13y ago
  We already have this - they are called bispecific monoclonal antibodies [0]. If you gave me the job of curing Cancer (and the resource to do it) then this is what I would spend your money on. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody
• ihodes 13y ago
  That turns out to be the focus of a lot of research right now[1][2]. The computational aspect of that has a lot to do with 1. faster, more accurate analysis of genetic code 2. faster, more accurate simulation of interactions between candidate peptides, binding sites on cancers, and the cells of the immune system [1]: "Designing immunogenic peptides" Darren R Flower [2]: "Cancer immunotherapy comes of age" Ira Mellman et al