University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Bhattacharjee's current institution

Johns Hopkins University engineers built a pair of magnetic robots the size of a pencil tip that are designed to travel through the bloodstream and put antibiotics directly on infected heart tissue. The robots carry no batteries or motors; coils outside the body, working on the same principle as an MRI machine, steer them. If it works in patients, the team says the procedure could take under an hour.

Updated Oct 26