Bugs to be used in vein.(News) From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: November 23, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Century Newspapers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WORK is soon to start on a novel "biomotor" which could drive microscopic submarines around the veins and arteries of the body, it was disclosed yesterday.

Powered by bacterial cells, the subs would zip around the body delivering drugs, destroying tumours and unblocking blood vessels.

The idea sounds as far-fetched as Fantastic Voyage, the film in which a team of shrunken scientists steer a submarine through a man's body in search of a blood clot.

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