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As tiny, relatively primitive robots rapidly shrink in size, it’s becoming clear they may soon invade people’s bodies. Earlier this year, for example, a team of researchers showcased an ability to inject tiny bots via syringes. Now, another team of scientists says it has successfully deployed drug-delivery robots in vivo—by sticking them up a mouse’s butt and having the microbots roll around its colon.
Futurism reported on the breakthrough experiment, executed by scientists at the Solorio Lab at Purdue University in Indiana. The scientists, who published their findings in the journal Micromachines aimed to show that their microrobot design is “promising for targeted drug delivery” and other biomedical applications.
The tiny robots, which are only a few hairs wide, don’t have batteries, or any onboard form of collecting energy. Instead, the robots’ creators use magnetic fields to control the diminutive drug-delivery systems wirelessly.
Purdue University video/Elizabeth Niedert and Chenghao Bi
“When we apply a rotating external magnetic field to these robots, they rotate just like a car tire would to go over rough terrain,” David Cappelleri said in a Purdue press release. Cappelleri, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of the paper, added, “The magnetic field also safely penetrates different types of mediums, which is important for using these robots in the human body.”
In the GIF and video above, the scientists show one of their microrobots moving through a sedated mouse’s colon. On top of that, the clips also show the robot properly delivering a fluorescent “mock drug” to the mouse. It does so by back-flipping to a particular location in the colon before its faux drug payload diffuses.
Purdue University Mechanical Engineering
“We were able to get a nice, controlled release of the drug payload,” Luis Solorio added in Purdue’s press release. Solorio, an assistant professor at Purdue’s School of Biomedical Engineering, also said that, in the future, people could steer the microbots to a particular location in the human body, and then leave it there as its drug payload dissolves.
Moving forward, the scientists say medical professionals could use the microrobots as diagnostic tools as well as drug delivery systems. Common manufacturing machines, they say, could even produce hundreds of these microbots simultaneously. And when that happens, all we can do is heed Ray Arnold’s timeless life advice.
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Featured Image: Purdue University
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As tiny, relatively primitive robots rapidly shrink in size, it’s becoming clear they may soon invade people’s bodies. Earlier this year, for example, a team of researchers showcased an ability to inject tiny bots via syringes. Now, another team of scientists says it has successfully deployed drug-delivery robots in vivo—by sticking them up a mouse’s butt and having the microbots roll around its colon.
Futurism reported on the breakthrough experiment, executed by scientists at the Solorio Lab at Purdue University in Indiana. The scientists, who published their findings in the journal Micromachines aimed to show that their microrobot design is “promising for targeted drug delivery” and other biomedical applications.
The tiny robots, which are only a few hairs wide, don’t have batteries, or any onboard form of collecting energy. Instead, the robots’ creators use magnetic fields to control the diminutive drug-delivery systems wirelessly.
Purdue University video/Elizabeth Niedert and Chenghao Bi
“When we apply a rotating external magnetic field to these robots, they rotate just like a car tire would to go over rough terrain,” David Cappelleri said in a Purdue press release. Cappelleri, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of the paper, added, “The magnetic field also safely penetrates different types of mediums, which is important for using these robots in the human body.”
In the GIF and video above, the scientists show one of their microrobots moving through a sedated mouse’s colon. On top of that, the clips also show the robot properly delivering a fluorescent “mock drug” to the mouse. It does so by back-flipping to a particular location in the colon before its faux drug payload diffuses.
Purdue University Mechanical Engineering
“We were able to get a nice, controlled release of the drug payload,” Luis Solorio added in Purdue’s press release. Solorio, an assistant professor at Purdue’s School of Biomedical Engineering, also said that, in the future, people could steer the microbots to a particular location in the human body, and then leave it there as its drug payload dissolves.
Moving forward, the scientists say medical professionals could use the microrobots as diagnostic tools as well as drug delivery systems. Common manufacturing machines, they say, could even produce hundreds of these microbots simultaneously. And when that happens, all we can do is heed Ray Arnold’s timeless life advice.
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Featured Image: Purdue University
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May 27, 2020: The world of video games is fun when you can be on a group call with friends and a crush, who all are streaming Overwatch co-op. Mia (Kylie Liya Page) shows off her skills as she plays and possibly gets her crush’s attention. After they finish, she gets a call from her friend Riley, hits her up on Discord to point out that her crush, Jake (David Iacono), is single and simping for her. Riley points out that Mia learned to be a supporting character on a game so that she and Riley could join Jake’s group to play with them. Man, that is a hard crush. Even I am shipping them. Despite all this, Mia doesn’t think it to be true. She thinks that Jake is only into white girls.
Riley suggests that Mia try a TikTok dance to get his attention. Mia at first does not want to do it but decides to stalk Jake’s social to find out what he likes. The safest choice for Mia is to upload a video of Jake’s favorite: Messi. After a quick call from her mom (fluent Mandarin is spoken) checking on her and the progress of her homework, Mia receives a message from Jake. Like any good girl, she calls up Riley for help on what to do now that she has gotten Jake’s attention. Google is the best way to assist with lying to a boy about shared personal interests. This is not going to end well in my opinion.
Jake thinks Mia is cool and asks for her Snap. She hangs up on Riley immediately when she gets a message from him. He shows off his Messi drip. They have a good conversation going about how parents worry about the effects of the pandemic and how good Mia’s game has gotten when Jake suddenly stops messaging. A notification pops up that Jake added to his story. It’s a picture of him and a girl Kennedy back when they were kids to currently. Riley checks in on the relationship progress. The two go through Kennedy’s social which depresses Mia. Riley, being a good friend, reminds Mia that she is beautiful and just needs to remind Jake what he is missing out on. She gives Mia advice on the best way to take a photo.
Mia takes a selfie but goes through the process of editing the pic to the point of looking like an alien to me. Luckily, Jake hits her up with a decent explanation. He brings up VR chat and Mia brings up that she builds a campsite on hers. He asks to come by and see it. Riley is called in for assistance again. We must find the perfect avatar for this VR meet up. Riley thinks that the avatar that looks like Mia is probably best. Thankfully, Mia listens. Once Jake friends her, she takes him to her campsite. He brought a laser shooting cat because he knows she likes cats. That is too cute. She shows him the work she has done on the campsite during quarantine. This VR chat is a beautiful way to get away from things. Jake finds out that Mia has never been camping and suggests that they go sometime when they can.
Jake asks to take a picture of the two of them in this world. Riley messages Mia to remind her to tell Jake how she feels. Mia finally tells him how she feels, which he states was what he was going to tell her. The only reason why he is still playing Overwatch is because she’s on there. They share a cute moment, which is interrupted by Mia’s mom’s arrival. She closes the laptop despite Mia’s insistence not to.
The next day, Mia tries to reach out to Riley but gets no response. She is on the edge of her seat when she messages Jake but he doesn’t make her wait long. Apparently, her mom disconnected the Wi-Fi and took her phone because she didn’t finish her paper. Parenting 101 right there. Jake has posted the picture he took of them on his Finsta. The caption is just a heart. She likes it then goes through his photos, which are disappointing to say the least. Jake has racist memes that call COVID the Chinese virus. Mia is hurt by this. However, she doesn’t choose to unfollow him. Riley calls to check up on her and tells Mia to forget him, there is so much more going on in the world. Mia has no clue what Riley is talking about and checks her feed. Videos of protestors for George Floyd come up.
I will admit that for a portion of this episode, I had to ask little bro what some of these things they were playing or talking about. Socials I get, VR and video games are currently out of my lane. Finding out that Jake is racist was probably best for Mia. She lied about her interests to get his attention, which is not good. I do know how she feels, it sucks finding out that your crush is a bigot of some form. The ending leading to George Floyd is unexpected but we can’t avoid that topic. It had an impact.
Last week, we found out that Jared Leto would reprise his role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Now another familiar face is joining the reshoots: Joe Manganiello will return to play Deathstroke. Manganiello previously appeared in a post-credits scene in 2017’s Justice League, where he was recruited by Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor to form an anti-Justice League.
Manganiello’s brief appearance insinuated that he would take on a larger role in the next DCEU film, which was scuttled after the poor performance of Justice League. And it was a shame, because Manganiello is long overdue for his superhero film debut. He previously appeared in Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man in a brief role as school bully Flash Thompson, but since his breakout role in True Blood and the Magic Mike films, Manganiello’s athleticism and screen presence make him an obvious choice for a big superhero/villain role.
Manganiello will join Leto, Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher and Amber Heard for reshoots with Zack Snyder, who is turning his film into a four-part miniseries set to debut sometime in 2021. The actor has declined to confirm or deny his appearance, saying “If I was a part of it, that wouldn’t be my place to announce that. That would be Zack’s place. So, whether or not that’s happening, that is an answer that is below my NDA level, or whatever you wanna call it.”
Deathstroke, aka Slade Wilson, was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. He made his comic debut in The New Teen Titans #2 in 1980, and frequently appeared as the archenemy of the Teen Titans. A deadly mercenary, Deathstroke is skilled in combat and has regenerative healing powers, making him a popular foe for DC superheroes.
After what must have been a disappointing start in the DCEU, we’re excited to see what Manganiello brings to Zack Snyder’s Justice League.
(via Collider, image: Warner Bros.)
- Look closely at this season 3 promo for Titans. (via CBR)
- Dan Harmon discusses the new female character joining Rick and Morty. (via Syfy)
- DC and Warner Bros. allowed James Gunn to kill off any member of The Suicide Squad. (via io9)
- This site is doing the Lord’s work. (via McBroken)
- Did comedian Jay Pharoah coin the term “Karen”? (via Entertainment Weekly)
- Here’s a zombie movie round-up just in time for Halloween. (via Collider)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has wrapped filming, according to Simu Liu’s Instagram:
- Help, we can’t stop watching this:
I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine https://t.co/2KsRwAdrMd
— rashiq (@rashiq) October 22, 2020
For some reason the X-Men theme fits perfectly with the Garfield and Friends intro. pic.twitter.com/jfTYaAs7ay
— Nacho (@MrTonyNacho) October 22, 2020
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We all know that the Trump administration is doing nothing to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. But to hear them boldly admit to it, 9 days before the election, is still shocking. But White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did just that in an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, where he told host Jake Tapper, “We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas,”.
After several aides, including his chief of staff, tested positive for Covid-19, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says VP Pence will keep campaigning: "Essential personnel, whether it's the Vice President of the United States or anyone else, has to continue on" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/2ZWMmwUHG3
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 25, 2020
This frank confession comes 8 months into the pandemic, when 8.6 million Americans have tested positive, and nearly 225,000 have died from COVID-19. This also comes as coronavirus cases are surging across the country, and five members of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff have tested positive. Pence and his team are, ironically, heading up the White House’s coronavirus task force.
But this second White House outbreak won’t deter Pence from the campaign trail. “I spoke to the vice president last night at midnight and I can tell you that what he is doing is wearing a mask, socially distancing and when he goes up to speak he will take the mask off and put it back on,” Meadows said. “He is wearing a mask as it relates to this particular thing because the doctors have advised him to do that.”
Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short, who works closely with Pence, was one of those who tested positive. And despite CDC recommendations that Pence quarantine for two weeks, the White House is labelling him as an “essential worker”, because campaigning is essential work now I guess.
Meadows claimed that the US wasn’t going to able to control the spread “Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu,” adding the Trump administration is “making efforts to contain it.” Meadows of course threw a 70-person indoor wedding for his daughter in May in Atlanta, GA, which doesn’t sound like much of a containment effort to me.
Many on social media took Meadows to task for the administration’s refusal to combat the virus:
This is unbelievable.
Mark Meadows on @CNNSotu: "We're not going to control the virus."
The Trump admin is finally clear about their #covid19 national strategy: capitulation.
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) October 25, 2020
BREAKING: Trump Chief Mark Meadows just literally said they aren’t going to “control the pandemic.” What kind of f*cking attitude is that? People are dying. People are f*cking dying. And they shrug their f*cking shoulders? Vote these negligent f*cking criminals out. Vote Biden.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 25, 2020
Mark Meadows admits on camera, 9 days before the election that the White House has given up trying to control the virus that has killed more than 220,000 Americans
Vote for Joe Biden https://t.co/4Ad6kQrRT1
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) October 25, 2020
Meadows admitted it: They surrendered. They capitulated.
The White House might have surrendered. But Americans haven’t.
In NY, we proved that we CAN control this virus.
And that’s what we’ll keep on fighting to do. Let’s keep it up.https://t.co/e5oQZyBaH6
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) October 25, 2020
Mark Meadows is one of the worst people I have ever seen in public life. Awful in Congress, worse as White House Chief of Staff. Dangerous to the country, dishonest ,radical. Imagine what a second Trump term would look like with Meadows having even more power.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 25, 2020
Surrendering to coronavirus is a hell of a strategy for the Trump campaign. Let’s how this shakes out for them in November.
(via CNN, featured image: screencap/CNN)
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