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Magnet-Steered Nano-Fish Could Deliver Drugs and Sweep Body Toxins

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dkatana writes: David Warner writes on InformationWeek how "nanoengineers" from UC San Diego have created microscopic fish powered by hydrogen peroxide that use magnets to steer themselves. "The "fish" are powerful enough to swim through your bloodstream, removing toxins or bringing medicine directly to crucial parts of your body, as cells in your blood stream do. Given enough time, the fish could be used to deliver drugs directly to cancer tumors or parts of your body that are too fragile for surgery."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Magnet-Steered+Nano-Fish+Could+Deliver+Drugs+and+Sweep+Body+Toxins%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1KmfMPC"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F08%2F30%2F1329235%2Fmagnet-steered-nano-fish-could-deliver-drugs-and-sweep-body-toxins%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/30/1329235/magnet-steered-nano-fish-could-deliver-drugs-and-sweep-body-toxins?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/30/1329235/magnet-steered-nano-fish-could-deliver-drugs-and-sweep-body-toxins?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/8a2XxIvFzSw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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