No more dying from diseases caused by microbots

In the future, we will no longer die from diseases, thanks to a new technology with microbots.

It is the dreamed image of the future: no longer to die because of all those miserable diseases that exist. So no longer about cancer, but also no longer about corona. How better the world would look for us then. How? Well, by a swarm made up of tens of thousands of tiny autonomous microbots.

No more death from microbots

It is still in the future, so the technology is not there yet. But proponents of medical nanobot technology do see it as an opportunity. A team of researchers from Australia has developed a stunning prototype that could work as a proof-of-concept for the future of medicine.

Called ‘autonomous molecular machines’, the new nanotechnology eschews the traditional guise of microscopic metal automata in favor of a more natural approach. According to the team’s research paper: Inspired by biology, we design and synthesize a DNA origami receptor that exploits multivalent interactions to form stable complexes that are also capable of rapid subunit exchange.

Nanobots

DNA nanobots are nanometer-sized synthetic machines made of DNA and proteins. Our natural DNA not only contains the code our biology is written in, it also knows when to run it. That’s one of the reasons why, for example, your left and right feet grow at about the same rate.

These particular nanobots can transfer more than just DNA information. Theoretically, they could deliver any imaginable combination of proteins through any given biological system. To put it more simply, we should eventually be able to program swarms of these nanobots to detect and disable bacteria, viruses and cancer cells in our bodies. You just have to be injected with it…