• Question: Cant you kill they cells with nanobots like in movies or something?

    Asked by Leo to Arthur on 10 Nov 2014.
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      Arthur Dyer answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Hey Leo,

      The problem is that nanobots don’t really properly exist in the way we see them in the movies and even the ones we do have aren’t that intelligent yet.

      A virus is pretty much a natural nanobot (that’s how I think of them!) because they have one goal which is to kill the cells that they can grow in by making a lot more of themselves.

      If we had nanobots that were clever enough i’d definitely try them but until then we use the closest thing which is a virus!

      Pretty awesome idea though.

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