{"id":61981,"date":"2025-11-15T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:12:42","slug":"microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study","title":{"rendered":"Microrobots Swim through Blood to Deliver Drugs: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Scientists have tested tiny, magnet-controlled robots that can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs exactly where they\u2019re needed \u2013 and then safely dissolve.<\/p>\n<p>Although not yet trialed in humans, the results, published Thursday in the journal Science, mark a promising step toward treating strokes, brain tumors and other hard-to-reach conditions with fewer side effects, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The microrobots are about the size of a grain of sand. Each is a small gelatin capsule packed with a drug and iron-oxide nanoparticles, which allow doctors to steer it using external magnetic fields. After delivering its payload, the capsule breaks down inside the body.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, researchers guided the robots through the brains of pigs and sheep \u2013 animals with blood vessels similar in size to humans \u2013 using a clinical magnetic navigation system and real-time X-ray imaging.<\/p>\n<p>The bots moved along vessel walls, swam against flowing blood and reached speeds of nearly half a meter (1.6 feet) per second. In pigs, the team delivered drugs to the exact target more than 95% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>If future studies go well, researchers say the first medical uses of such drug-delivering robots could appear within the next five to ten years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mauritius<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Scientists have tested tiny, magnet-controlled robots that can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs exactly where they\u2019re needed \u2013 and then safely dissolve. Although not yet trialed in humans, the results, published Thursday in the journal Science, mark a promising step toward treating strokes, brain tumors and other hard-to-reach conditions with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[7048,241,7047,7046,1824],"class_list":["post-61981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-blood-vessel","tag-mauritius","tag-microrobot","tag-pig","tag-sheep"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microrobots Swim through Blood to Deliver Drugs: Study - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scientists have tested tiny, magnet-controlled robots that can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs exactly where ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microrobots Swim through Blood to Deliver Drugs: Study\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scientists have tested tiny, magnet-controlled robots that can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs exactly where ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-15T18:40:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-15T19:12:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2025\/11\/sm_1763221222.317017.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Microrobots Swim through Blood to Deliver Drugs: Study\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-15T18:40:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-15T19:12:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2025\/11\/sm_1763221222.317017.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"blood vessel\",\"Mauritius\",\"Microrobot\",\"pig\",\"sheep\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/microrobots-swim-through-blood-to-deliver-drugs-study\",\"name\":\"Microrobots Swim through Blood to Deliver Drugs: Study - 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