Artery Cleaner IV
2001
Jane Fallows and Roger Hulley
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A simple cylindrical nanorobot cleans a fatty deposit from the inner wall of an artery. Image appears with permission of The Lancet, Jane Fallows, and Roger Hulley.
© Copyright 2001 by The Lancet. Please contact The Lancet for reprint permission.
Kelly Morris, “Macrodoctor, come meet the nanodoctors,” The Lancet 357(10 March 2001):778.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol357/iss9258/artid/15511 (requires free registration to access the site)