Engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer drugs directly to metastatic tumors. The method has shown promise in mice, where it inhibited the growth and spread of tumors that had metastasized to the lungs. The team successfully increased survival rates compared to control treatments. For the development of these microrobots, an ingenious combination of biology and nanotechnology was employed, a collaboration between the laboratories of Joseph Wang and Liangfang Zhang, both professors in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Nanoengineering at UCSD. They chemically attached … Continue reading UCSD Microrobots Propel Lung Cancer Survival Rates: Discover How Mice Survival Improved to 37 Days