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August 26, 2019

Europe’s killer nanobot startups are taking on cancer

“Our nanobots could be packaged in pills."


Kitty Knowles

6 min read

Nanobot startups in Europe are tackling cancer and gut health. Credit: CC/Flickr/Sanko_Seisakusyo

Nanobots don’t look like the robots of science fiction novels or Star Wars films. Instead, they’re so tiny you can’t see them at all — they’re often only around 30 nanometers big (whereas a human hair is some 100,000 nanometers wide).

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Dr Martin Pumera, who founded Advanced Functional Nanorobots
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Eligo Bioscience founder Xavier Duportet makes nanobots for better gut health. Credit: CC/Flickr/TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin
Eligo Bioscience founder Xavier Duportet makes nanobots for better gut health. Credit: CC/Flickr/TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Credit: &quot;Fortune Most Powerful Women 2014&quot; by Fortune Most Powerful Women is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Credit: "Fortune Most Powerful Women 2014" by Fortune Most Powerful Women is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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