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ROBOT CANCER KEY Tiny robots thinner than a human hair could help fight cancer tumours, reveals study

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They are only 30 microns — thousands of a millimetre — in diameter, and can easily turn from solid to liquid and back.

They can survive stomach acid and would pass out of the body in urine.

A trial in mice has already helped to shrink the size of bladder tumours.

A test on humans is now hoped for in the long term.

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13099433/tiny-robots-cancer-tumours-health/



   
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