Cancer treatment has come a long way over the past few decades. Many types of cancer have a high survival rate thanks to medical interventions that can stop or stop tumor growth and even eradicate them completely. Nevertheless, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, just behind heart disease, and there is still no cure that applies to all or even most cases of cancer. It would be nice if that changed, and startups in California think small robots might be the answer.
The company is Bionaut Labs, and as the Los Angeles Times reports, the team has been thatching in hopes of a drug delivery system with a robot that is so tiny and looks like a speck of dirt to the naked eye. Yes, drug-carrying robots may help eliminate tumors by “driving” them inside your body.
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The idea feels like something out of a science fiction story – and there are a number of such films and books that use small robots inside the human body for good and ill – but this is the real deal. Bionaut Labs wants to get away with the obscure nature of most therapeutic cancer treatments, and the robots could do that with a screw shape.
It’s a very simple concept: Bionaut’s tiny bots are small enough to be injected into a human body without much discomfort and, once inside, the shape is like a screw that allowing them to be directed to the offending turret by using external magnets that emit a magnetic field. All the while, doctors are monitoring the progress of bots on live X-ray feeding, making sure they are making the right path and leading straight to cancer.
As soon as the bot (or, usually, several bots) make it to the destination, a command is sent to the machines also using magnets. This encourages the devices to properly dump their drug-paying pressure on the eardrum itself, increasing their effectiveness while hoping to minimize any side effects.
Compare this to a therapeutic approach that involves drugs that are swallowed or even injected and you will see the benefit. Getting a cancer-fighting drug to a tumor is usually something that the circulatory system needs to do, and that means spreading the chemical all over the body. It works, but it can produce side effects and is almost as effective as it could be if the drugs were delivered by tiny robots.
I think the most interesting thing about this new report is that this is not a pie-in-the-sky dream situation. This is a real technology that is already proven in the real world. The company is targeting specific types of cancer that currently affect the brain gas, injecting the bots into the spinal column where they can travel to the cancer site, but as as the technology advances, it could be just as effective against other cancer changes. .
Based on the company’s roadmap, clinical trials could take place as early as 2023, paving the way for regulatory approval that would add it to the arsenal of cancer treatment options for specialists worldwide.
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Mike Wehner has been reporting on technology and video games for the past decade, covering breaking news and trends in VR, wearables, smartphones, and the future of tech. Mike was most recently a Tech Editor at The Daily Dot, and has appeared in USA Today, Time.com, and in countless web and print outlets. His love of narrating only second place on his game thesis.