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nanobot

(robotics)
/nan"oh-bot/ A robot of microscopic proportions, presumably built by means of nanotechnology. As yet, only used informally (and speculatively!). Also called a "nanoagent".
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These are mostly aimed at restricting the development of MNT to responsible parties and preventing the production of freeranging self-replicating nanobots.
This makes nanobots fast enough to do assembly line work in molecular factories.
Ask your students to explore this area and consider how they would select potential patients for nanobot treatment.
VIRTUAL REALITY: Doctors could explore the body more readily with the help of a nanobot injection.
According to the journal Science, the barrel-shaped nanobot can carry molecules containing instructions that make cells behave in a particular way.
Chaaya Gopal Lee, with whom the novel begins, is the great-granddaughter of the original programmer for the nanobots, and she is affected by the severe delirium.
If it is possible to deliver a dose of cure right to the malignant cells as the nanobot concept goes, a nefarious group could also use the same technology to target other cell characteristics as well.
A prologue set in mid-17th century France establishes the unfortunate history of the clan fronted by arms dealer James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston), whose company has invented a nanobot missile capable of razing an entire city in minutes.
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