In the latest exciting and mildly unnerving development in biotech, scientists announce that they have successfully deployed nanobots to perform tasks within cockroaches:
Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers – known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfolding strands of DNA – travel around the insect’s body and interact with each other, as well as the insect’s cells. When they uncurl, they can dispense drugs carried in their folds.
And this is just the beginning for the technology, which the researchers hope can be used to treat cancer:
An obvious benefit of this technology would be cancer treatments, because these must be cell-specific and current treatments are not well-targeted.
The Dish 