Cancer? Robo-Maggots will eat your brain!!!

Opty · Sep 18, 2013

Thought this was pretty cool. I hope he's able to perfect the design.

Creepy, crawly maggots might be making their way into people's brains. Robot maggots, that is. Inspired by a TV show where plastic surgeons use maggots to eat away dead tissue, neurosurgeon J. Marc Simard of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been developing a prototype for a larvae-esque robot that could get eat away at a brain tumor from the inside.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/robo-maggots-will-munch-through-brain-tumors

Zoombie · Sep 18, 2013

And then I shall use it to create...A WEAPON!

RichardGarfinkle · Sep 19, 2013

Zoombie said:
And then I shall use it to create...A WEAPON!

Cool and creepy but inefficient as a weapon.

As cancer treatment, it's a brilliant idea, if they can get it to work. So many cancers are dangerous or impossible to reach from the outside.

LOG · Sep 19, 2013

And then modify it to repair tissues instead.

Cancer? Robo-Maggots will eat your brain!!!

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