Anuruddha Bhattacharjee

First author; assistant professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Magnetic millirobots deliver drugs directly to a beating heart

Former Johns Hopkins postdoctoral fellow

Johns Hopkins University engineers built a pair of magnetic robots the size of a pencil tip that travel through the bloodstream to place antibiotics directly on infected heart tissue. The robots carry no batteries or motors; they are steered from outside the body by electromagnetic coils, the same technology that powers an MRI machine.

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