Your office is now under siege from the flu. <\/p>\n
One worker down. Then, bang, your buddy in the next cubicle. <\/p>\n
How can you combat the seasonal body count? Perhaps, one day, with guided nano rockets small enough to be injected into the body - each carrying a payload of medicine. <\/p>\n
Researchers at Radbound University Nijmegen in Holland, say they have made strides in creating smart, self-fuelled delivery pods that could target disease like a missile hones in on an enemy position. <\/p>\n
Media in Europe on Tuesday likened it to the shrunken vessel Proteus in the 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage. With miniaturized crew onboard, they try to clear a blood clot in a scientist. <\/p>\n
And head researcher Professor Jan van Hest tells QMI Agency that likeness -- minus Raquel Welch and crew -- doesn't make him laugh. <\/p>\n
\"In fact the comparison is not that far off,\" wrote van Hest in an e-mail exchange, explaining the nano-system works like a rocket, complete with a motor that can combust fuel. <\/p>\n
The gas escapes the nano-rocket only from one side, which results in a thrust that makes the rocket move forward fast -- travelling a distance of more than 100 times its own length in a second. <\/p>\n
But van Hest cautioned controlling medicine delivery pods in an actual human is still science fiction. <\/p>\n
\"We first aim to develop this technology for diagnostics applications outside of the human body,\" he said <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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