Researchers from Chonnam National University (South Korea) have purified a microscopic robot that can travel through the blood vessels of man, it creates blood clots, according to Telegraph. The device whose length is less than 1 millimeter, has six legs and move and looks like a crab. According to estimates of developers, a maternity care crabs a distance of 50 meters. The entry into the blocked artery begins, the robot drugs that will produce dissolve the thrombus. Movement six crab legs rhythmically contracted by a small fragments of muscle tissue that can produce dissolved like all muscles, energy by splitting the blood sugar level. Thus, the robot is not need a separate power source - the cumbersome and unreliable part of these devices. However, does the application of biological materials is another serious problem: the muscles undergo robot attacks the immune system, which will destroy it long before reaching the specified area of the vascular bed. Rejection can be avoided by using the device fragments of the patient's muscles or muscle cells cultured from his tribe.
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