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Everyone has them once in a while, an itch that
occurs far beyond the reaches of your arms no
matter how much you try to contort or stretch
them. Somehow it always happens when you are
sitting down getting comfortable with a book or
catching up with your social media posts, and you
wish you had tiny robots that you can dispatch
to scratch that itch away! Or you wish you had
some easy way of getting at that bunch of keys you
accidentally dropped through the drain cover.
Guess what, doctors and surgeons have been
dreaming of such robots as well. Micro machines
small enough to go into the human body to detect
and destroy viruses or diseases before they can
wreak havoc. Seems like stuff of cartoons, but
nanotechnology as well as nanomedicines, are
being explored to help combat cancer as well as
tumours amongst many other ailments. They are
small enough to be injected into the bloodstream,
last longer and yet not clog up the blood vessels.
With a huge market for them and the immense
potential to treat previously un-treatable disease or
limiting the use of destructive drugs, it could be
very soon that we will be taking a pill filled with
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Professor James Sharpe has well established interests
in the social and cultural history of early modern
England, with wider interests in witchcraft, in the
history of crime and law enforcement, and in early
modern judicial systems. pALI WOOD TOM IRELAND
Ali is a freelance writer, editor and publisher with over
13 years’ experience on consumer magazines. Her
writing portfolio includes a variety of men’s, women’s,
craft and entertainment sectors, but she has a special
love for the British countryside and coast. pNanomedicines are a hot topic in the world of
science, and could even make us immortal. We
asked editor of The Biologist Tom Ireland to find out
what we can look forward to from these micro
machines. pJAMES
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