MRI-powered mini-robots could offer targeted treatment

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

Invasive surgical techniques allow physicians to effectively treat disease but can lead to sometimes serious complications and dramatically slow healing for the patient. Scientists instead want to deploy dozens, or even thousands of tiny robots to travel the body's venous system as they deliver drugs or a self-assembled interventional tool.

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