Just as a business needs an effective and reliable service to deliver its goods to customers, medications need an effective delivery system to get them to the specific area of the body where they can ...

A magnetically guided microrobotics system is capable of navigating the body's intricate passageways and vasculature to deliver drugs with pinpoint accuracy, according to a new study. The novel system ...

Scientists are developing magnetically driven nanorobots that can actively navigate the bloodstream and deliver chemotherapy ...

Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Grain-sized soft robots that can be ...

The limited ability of microrobots to assist drugs in entering cells hinders their therapeutic efficacy. To address this, the cancer-targeting molecule folic acid (FA) was introduced to microrobots to ...

In the world of biomechanics and medicine, there are challenges in the designing microrobots that are effective in drug ...

University of British Columbia researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant--the first of its kind in Canada--that could offer an alternative for patients struggling with numerous pills or ...

What if doctors could guide life-saving treatments through the body using nothing but a magnet? An interdisciplinary team at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering is working to ...

A new method for controlling naturally magnetized bacteria has improved the prospects of applying them as vehicles for intratumoral delivery of cancer drugs and in hyperthermia therapy. The advance ...

(Nanowerk News) The effectiveness of microrobots in aiding drug delivery into cells is currently limited, which impacts their therapeutic value. To overcome this, researchers have integrated the ...