A tiny device a quarter of a millimeter in diameter would be able to trace the blood in an artery to an area to operate and use miniature instruments, controlled remotely by a surgeon. This scenario is coming out of science fiction …

For now, the nanochirurgien able to slip into an artery does not exist yet. But an Australian team at Monash University, headed by James Friend, had described a prototype in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengeenering. Continue reading →