DNA robotsExpert Anton Kalabukhov said in an interview with Pravda.Ru that DNA robots can increase a person’s average lifespan. Last year, St. Petersburg have created nanorobots from DNA molecules to detect pathogens. According to the interlocutor of the institution, in the future, they will be able to deliver drugs in microscopic doses to the desired cells and tissues, diagnose diseases and clean blood vessels.
“This is a technology that Ray Kurzweil wrote about a long time ago and says that in the near future nanorobots will be able to run our bodies to find diseases, fight viruses, send drugs to different parts of our body and cleanse them. It will be able to cure blood vessels and perhaps previously incurable diseases that are a common problem in old age and cause a large number of deaths,” Kalabukhov said.
As an example, he cited oncological diseases that can be entered into their focus by DNA robots.
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