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In the medical world is making so-called ‘magic bullets’ so it’s about the holy grail. It means that drugs or carriers by targeting automatically on that place to be delivered where they are to do their jobs. A group of American scientists took the idea of a bullet quite literally. They have developed a system of steel balls in the body of a patient to inject them via magnetism to shoot off, which, for example, drugs may be released, or by clots of blood pricked. The idea is similar to a gauss gun, and was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
According to the authors works, the concept with small steel balls, which is for example loaded with drugs. The intention is that they are injected into the body, and then with an mri scanner, the balls neatly next to each other and to the correct area to be navigated. That works because the balls by the mri scanner be magnetized. Then a ‘trigger’ injection that more or less ensures that the magnetized balletjesgeweer is fired. That process can then ensure that medication is released. Also, there may by the released kinetic energy by a blockage going to be shot. In a video showing the scientists how the concept, in the large, in his work.
Although the concept is pretty exciting sounds, there is still much work to be done before placing the system in practice. Thus, the steel balls are still not small enough to put them in the bloodstream to be able to bring. Once that is successful, must the creators are clinical tests to demonstrate that the system is safe and effective, which in the end may take years for the gauss gun, in practice, can be used.
