Gives me some itchings of Hugh Howey's Silo series...
STEALTHY NANOROBOTS dress up as viruses, prepare to sneak into YOUR BODY
US scientists have tackled two main stumbling blocks to the development of injectable nanomachines for medical and scientific use. The breakthroughs were announced in a paper entitled "Virus-Inspired Membrane Encapsulation of DNA Nanostructures To Achieve In Vivo Stability", published in the journal ACS Nano on Tuesday. …
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Wednesday 23rd April 2014 03:34 GMT Wzrd1
Hehe, more like Ben Franklin rapping his knuckles on a key hanging from a string of a kite before the leading edge of a thunderstorm.
This science is in its most fetal stages. The "machine" can't do anything but sit there stupidly. The lipid membrane protecting the non-functional device.
Give it a half century, it might actually go somewhere.
Pity, it'd be *great* to have something workable within my lifetime.
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Wednesday 23rd April 2014 03:53 GMT Mark 85
Sneaks in but does it sneak out?
Interesting that it can be put in and not be destroyed but what happens after the payload has been delivered? Does it dissolve or break apart? Is it filtered out by the kidneys, etc.? Or does it just hang around and possibly create another set of issues?
Even so, this is in it's infancy and looks promising.