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Iron nanobots for diagnostic imaging, drug delivery and target cell destruction

Can manipulate these nanobots inside the body using magnetic fields

20-May-2020

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Cells inside the body can be tracked using magnetic core-shell iron nanowires as contrast agents.

Can implant into live cells and use MRI scanning to detect those cells' location inside a living being.

Can magnetically guide them to go to a specific location, to carry drugs, or to be heated with a laser.

Could potentially be used as "theranostic" agents, able to identify, track and take out target cells.

Research by King Abdullah University of Science & Technology.

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Aldo Martínez-Banderas

PhD student at the Department of Bioscience, KAUST

CIC biomaGUNE

Non-profit research center based in San Sebastián, Spain

Jürgen Kosel

Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at KAUST

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

Research university based in Saudi Arabia

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